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Regret the Error: "Best" media errors & corrections for 2008
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... "Deep depression: Our economics editor has officially gone from recession to depression. By mangling the names of
two of history’s most highly decorated economists, John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman, we not only created an economy of
truth but blamed poor Milton Keynes for having “crazy” ideas (We can all learn from Depression, Opinion, page 21, September
29). Milton Keynes is an English town famous not only for its grid system of roads and its herd of concrete cows but because
in 1998 it was deemed so boring that even ...
Corrections Of The Year
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Regret The Error rounds them up. A favorite: In the June 20 “Culturebox,” Jonah Weiner stated that Lil Wayne was the first hip-hop artist to fantasize about eating his competition. Other rappers have contemplated consuming their rivals. ...
The Year in Corrections
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] The blog Regret the Error has published its always amusing yearly round-up of notable newspaper corrections. As it happens, I've actually met and worked with the reporter whose article received the "Award for Most Corrected Story" he's normally a pretty darn good reporter, and I feel his pain here. ...
Chuck Philips Earns “Error of the Year” Award
Patterico's Pontifications —
... Regret the Error, a web site that monitors interesting or unusual corrections, awards its “Error of the Year” award to Chuck Philips for his story on the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur: ...
Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars —
... interventions.
Amygdala: Dennis Blair has been named as Obama's National Intelligence Director. There are questions...
The Raw Story: Goldman Sachs, now just another zombie bank, takes bailout billions, then cuts taxes to one percent by moving profits offshore. The Swiss have come up with a great way to handle those golden parachutes and executive bonuses.
ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: The year in media errors and corrections...Murdoch's new hire... Inside Iraq...Media Minutes... ...
