Corrections
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2012 Corrections
The June 20, 2011, story “Could Flogging Solve Our Prison Crisis” initially stated that “the Corrections Corporation of America helped draft anti-immigration laws,” a reference to the draft legislation that later became Arizona SB 1070. CCA has brought it to our attention that although CCA did have a representative at the ALEC meeting where model legislation similar to 1070 was drafted, CCA was not involved in drafting the language. The story has been corrected. [Correction made 3/8/12]
In the Feb. 7, 2012, story “Will Obama Compromise on Birth Control,” a quote by an unnamed reporter was erroneously attributed to ABC News reporter Jake Tapper. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error. [Correction made 2/8/12]
2011 Corrections
A quote that was erroneously attributed to Michelle Malkin has been removed from the June 21 story “The Man Behind the Glitter Revolution.” The quote was in fact from a commenter on Malkin’s site. Salon regrets the error. [Correction made 8/24/11]
The June 2 story “Sasha Grey joins Lindsay Lohan in gallery shorts” incorrectly identified the director of this film as Todd Phillips. The artist is, in fact, Richard Phillips. The story has been corrected. [Correction made 6/2/11]
The May 6 story “Lady Gaga on ‘American Idol’” erroneously summarized year-old reports about Lady Gaga’s May 5, 2010, appearance on “American Idol,” mistakenly suggesting that her appearance was on May 5, 2011. Salon has corrected the story and regrets the error. [Correction made 5/6/11]
The Feb. 28 article “Proactiv’s Celebrity Shell Game” incorrectly suggested that Dr. Benabio said the “before and after” pictures used by Proactiv were Photoshopped. The dermatologist did not make that claim. Further, the basic Proactiv system costs $19.95, not $59.95, as the article originally stated. Salon regrets the errors. [Correction made 3/21/11]
We have altered the language of the Dec. 30 story “Judith Miller: From the Times to the Nuts” after several media outlets amended their coverage and we received a request from Newsmax. We never intended to imply that its business practices violate any laws. [Correction made 1/18/11]
2010 Corrections
The Dec. 16 story “Keith Olbermann ‘suspends’ Twitter account over Assange furor” incorrectly stated that Assange had been charged in the rape case in Sweden. He had been arrested in London on an extradition warrant, but had not been charged. [Correction made 12/16/10.]
The Sept. 6 story “Inside the Strange World of Hoarders” stated that the Beales in the film “Grey Gardens” were sisters. They were mother and daughter. [Correction made 9/7/10.]
Joan Walsh’s Aug. 25 blog post “Beck has a scheme” was originally accompanied by an iconic photo of Martin Luther King Jr. that was mistakenly used and attributed to the Library of Congress. The photo is actually the copyrighted work of Bob Adelman/Magnum Photos. Salon regrets the error. [Correction made 8/26/10]
The story “Jon Stewart Was Born to Bash Obama” contained three inaccuracies: Stewart began his “Daily Show” tenure in 1999, so the assertion that he had never done the job during a Democratic presidency was incorrect. The “Daily Show” segment on Obama’s All Star pitch aired on July 15, 2009, not June 15, 2009. And the banner displayed during a satiric bit on the BP oil spill read “Commission Accomplished,” not “Mission Accomplished.” Salon regrets the errors. [Correction made 6/23/10]
The June 16 Broadsheet post “Study: Fat Women Starved of Sex” originally stated that “obese men had just as much nookie as average guys.” It should have read, “obese men were just as likely to have had a sexual partner in the last 12 months as average guys.” [Correction made 6/16/10]
The May 17 Broadsheet post “Miss USA Stripping Scandal: How Shocking!” incorrectly stated that Miss Nevada Katie Rees lost her title after the emergence of a “hardcore pornographic photo shoot.” The photos in question were not actually pornographic. The story has been corrected. [Correction made 5/17/10]
The May 3 story “United and Continental Tie the Knot” mistakenly said that United and Continental logged 177 million and 133 million revenue passenger kilometers, respectively. That should be 17.7 billion and 13.3 billion. The story has been corrected. [Correction made 5/11/10]
A Broadsheet item about blogger Judith Torrea said that the death toll from the drug war in Ciudad Juárez was roughly 22,700. That is the figure for all of Mexico. The correct death toll for Juárez is roughly 4,324. The story has been corrected. [Correction made 4/15/10]
In the April 5 story “My Antidepressant Gets Hard to Swallow,” the author of the book “Listening to Prozac” was misidentified. The author is Peter D. Kramer. The story has been corrected. [Correction made 4/5/10]
The March 31 story “We Should Be Policing Wall Street” incorrectly stated that a whistle-blower who’d alerted Ernst & Young to fraud had been fired by Ernst & Young. He was fired by Lehman Brothers. The story has been corrected. [Correction made 3/31/10]
The March 16 story “Bring It On, Ayn Rand Geeks” originally stated that Ron Paul’s son, Rand Paul, was named after Ayn Rand. Rand Paul claims that is not true. The story has been corrected. [Correction made 3/17/10]
The Feb. 3 “James O’Keefe’s Race Problem” reported that O’Keefe, the
conservative activist arrested on charges he plotted to tamper with
Sen. Mary Landrieu’s phone lines, helped plan a conference on “Race
and Conservatism” that featured white nationalist Jared Taylor. The
freelance photographer who attended the event, and snapped O’Keefe’s
photo there, now says the right-wing provocateur helped out at the
conference, but cannot confirm that he helped plan it. The story has been corrected.
The article also said that O’Keefe was terminated by the right-wing
Leadership Institute in 2008, after videos were released of O’Keefe
calling Planned Parenthood and offering to donate money to abort
black babies. He was let go in 2007. Leadership Institute co-founder Morton Blackwell told the New York Times O’Keefe “wanted to do
sting operations that would affect legislation; he made some calls
which have been covered in the news media to Planned Parenthood. That
was beyond the scope of what we had hired him to do. We are an
educational organization. We are not an activist organization.” Blackwell says he told O’Keefe to choose between his job and his activism, “and he said he was committed to the activism,” according to the Times. The
date of O’Keefe’s termination has been corrected, and Blackwell’s
explanation has been added to the story.
Also, David Almasi is the director of Project 21, not the founder, as originally
stated.
Salon regrets the errors. [Correction made 2/5/10]
The Jan. 25 article “Is the President Panicking” originally stated that Fox News led the charge against Bill Clinton in the ’94 midterm elections. Fox News did not come into being until 1996. The story has been corrected. [Correction made 1/27/10]
Heather Michon’s Jan. 19 article “Is It Racist to Report on Looting in Haiti?” neglected to attribute an observation about the connotations of the word “looting” in multiple languages to a post by Marc Herman at Global Voices. [Correction made 1/22/10]
A Jan. 23 books feature about Chinua Achebe contained a typo in the name of the author. It is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, not Chinamanda Ngozi Adichie.
A Jan. 13 War Room post incorrectly stated that the Federation for American Immigration Reform had provided funding for Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, citing the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Web site. But the Web site says only that FAIR “supports” ALIPAC. In fact, ALIPAC has not received funding from the federation. [Correction made 1/14/10]
2009 Corrections
In Stephanie Zacharek’s Dec. 9 review of “A Single Man,” it was incorrectly
stated that Tom Ford designed for Yves Saint Laurent before moving to
Gucci. In fact, Ford worked as creative director of Gucci from 1996 to
2004, and also designed for Yves Saint Laurent after that house was
acquired by Gucci in 1999. [Correction made 12/14/09]
In the Dec. 9 story, Price Check: Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label the article misstated the price differences between retail bottles of wine, and restaurant bottles. The price difference numbers provided included an erroneous extra 100%.
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In the Dec. 8 Broadsheet post “‘Curing’ Gays Turns to Killing,” Richard Cohen, author of “Coming Out Straight: Understanding and Healing Homosexuality,” was incorrectly referred to as a Washington Post columnist. There is a newspaper columnist of the same name, but he is a different person. [Correction made 12/8/09]
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The Aug. 14 story “Whose side of the road are you on,” incorrectly stated that Samoa was the first country to change the side of the road it drove on since 1967. In fact, Iceland made the change in 1968 and Burma in 1970. [Correction made 8/13/09]
In the Aug. 12 story “Obama’s Healthcare Horror,” we incorrectly said that the White House counsel had been fired. In fact, there has been speculation in the press reports that the White House counsel will be fired — but he has not been. [Correction made 8/13/09]
The July 28 story href=”http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/28/immigrant_president/”>”Immigrants
Should Be Eligible for the Presidency” originally contained a
paragraph stating that several Founding Fathers, including Alexander
Hamilton, were ineligible for the presidency because of the
circumstances of their birth. This paragraph was inaccurate and has been
deleted from the story. [Correction made 7/29/09]
In the June 22 Since You Asked column “I’m Stuck in Atlanta, He’s Stuck in Seattle,” certain identifying details have been removed to protect the privacy of the people involved. [Correction made 6/23/09]
The June 6 story “The Learjet Repo Man” initially stated that Pat Sage is Nick Popovich’s wife. She is his ex-wife. Salon regrets the error. [Correction made 6/11/09]
The April 13 “Ask a Wingnut” column “The
Wingnut Explains Michele Bachmann” originally stated that Minnesota
was a major producer of coal. The article has been corrected to say that
Minnesota’s electricity production is heavily dependent on coal. Salon
regrets the error. [Correction made 4/13/09]
A March 25 Broadsheet post “Anti-abortion Stunt Girl Strikes Again” incorrectly stated that Live Action’s Lila Rose project was funded by Dr. James Dobson. It is, in fact, not funded by Dobson. The article has been corrected. Salon regrets the error. [Correction made 3/26/09]
The March 18 story “Just How Bad Off Is the Republican Party (Part 2)?” originally stated that Kansas Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson would not be running for governor in 2010 because of questions about a relationship with an aide. In fact, Parkinson is not running so that he can tend to his family business. A researcher confused Parkinson with former Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison, who left office in 2008 because of a sex scandal. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error. [Correction made 3/18/09]
The March 11 story “Why Is Jim Cramer Shouting at Me?” originally stated that Wall Street’s closing bell is at 4:30 p.m. It is at 4 p.m., and the story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error. [Correction made 3/12/09]
The March 4 story “Predatory Lending With a Smiley Face” stated that “no-doc, option ARM, cash-out and other toxic mortgages” were still advertised on mortgage broker Ty Youngblood’s Web site at the time of the story’s publication. The story has been corrected and now reads: “no-doc, option ARM, cash-out and other toxic mortgages, some of which were still advertised on his Web site earlier this year, but are no longer.” Salon regrets the error. [Correction made 3/5/09]
The Feb. 13 story “Pardon the Bush Miscreants” misrepresented a Gallup poll. The story has been corrected and now reads: “In a poll released yesterday by the Gallup Organization, 38 percent favors criminal sanctions against officials who authorized torture or other outrages in the “war on terror,” while another 24 percent favors an investigation without criminal charges. At the same time, 34 percent prefers that the Obama administration simply leave its wayward predecessors be.” Salon regrets the error. [Correction made 2/17/09]
In the Feb. 11 story “Bigfoot Lives,” a quote by photographer Jeremy Holden read: “I had spent time in New Guinea trying to photograph a habituated troop of 19 chimpanzees.” It should have read: “I had spent time in Guinea trying to photograph a habituated troop of 19 chimpanzees.” The story has been corrected. [Correction made 2/12/09]
