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Errors & Omissions: Take a perfectly good image, misuse it endlessly and watch it crumble
A comment piece on Thursday, about love affairs, said: "One person only has to slip in their resolve for 10 minutes and the whole thing crumbles like a pack of cards."
Inside Corrections
Errors & Omissions: How the public's mild worry can be stretched to deep concern
Saturday, 5 February 2011
All through the great phone-hacking scandal, I have held a minority position in the office. It seems to me to be a parish-pump story from the village of Westminster and Fleet Street, much less interesting to real people than to journalists. So maybe I have missed the point of the following headline, which appeared on Tuesday: "Voters deeply concerned about phone hacking, survey reveals."
Margaret Doyle
Friday, 4 February 2011
In our article, ‘Reuters rocked by scandal over staff’s undisclosed shareholdings’ (19 October 2010) we alleged that Margaret Doyle, a financial journalist, had breached Reuters’ internal rules on share ownership and dealing. This was not true. She had observed the rules at all times, a fact confirmed by Reuters. We apologise to Ms Doyle for the embarrassment caused.
Errors & Omissions: We must treasure our language's distinctions with all our might
Saturday, 29 January 2011
English auxiliary verbs are a national treasure – but one that too few people appreciate. We need to fight for them. Consider the following sentences:
An apology: Andy Townsend
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
In yesterday’s Independent, Ian Herbert attributed quotes to the ITV football analyst Andy Townsend which suggested that he had made sexist comments on Twitter as part of the Andy Gray/Richard Keys story.
Errors & Omissions: A farcical fate for one of Shakespeare's comic creations
Saturday, 22 January 2011
Let us set the scene for a tragedy – if not a horror story.
Ofsted
Thursday, 20 January 2011
On 14 September we reported, based on an Ofsted report and on a subsequent press briefing, that Ofsted had found that up to 750,000 children have been wrongly labelled as having "special educational needs". Ofsted has since clarified its findings. We are advised that the true figure was up to around 450,000.
Errors & Omissions: Caution over legal reporting can get out of hand – allegedly
Saturday, 15 January 2011
Press people have it drummed into them with Pavlovian intensity that, for fear of contempt of court, you must never publish anything about an accused person that might prejudice the trial. But in the early part of this week, in relation to the Arizona shootings, caution was carried to absurd lengths.
Julian Brazier MP
Friday, 14 January 2011
In Mark Steel's column 'Unseasonal apocalypse forecast' (22 December 2010) we ascribed a quote to Julian Brazier describing him as 'The Transport Minister'. He has told us that while he was the transport spokesperson in opposition, he is not the Transport Minister and he did not comment as quoted or at all. We apologise to him for our error.
Errors & Omissions: Forget the boring facts – all we want is a really clever headline
Saturday, 8 January 2011
Writing headlines is an art – and a challenge. Nothing we do in the print trade comes in for more criticism. Headlines are believed to typify everything that has always been wrong with journalism – brash, stupid, shameless, addicted to forceful expression at the expense of factual accuracy and intellectual discrimination. It's all true, of course, but nothing makes the ink pulse faster in the veins of a true old-fashioned newspaper hack than a really clever headline.
Errors & Omissions: Making the point using a metaphor can be a painful experience
Saturday, 1 January 2011
The phrase "not to put too fine a point on it" has always puzzled me. In a broad sense, the meaning is reasonably clear: "I am about to say something you won't like." But what has the "fine point" to do with it?
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