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Madeleine McCann: Correcting A Correction

express-apologyMADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCanna few words on apologies:

A WORD on newspaper apologies in the University of Virginia’s Cavalier Daily – oh, the irony – featuring Our Maddie as the ultimate newspaper apology.

Christopher Hitchens has said that the purpose of putting corrections in a newspaper is not really to correct what the paper got wrong. It’s to point out that everything else in the paper was right.

Tim Thornton goes on to talk of corrections and clarifications. And then introduces Craig Silverman, who writes the excellent book Regret the Error.

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Posted: 30th, September 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (4)


Michelle Obama’s LSD Lobster

THE New York Post’s gossipy Page Six is a rich source of corrections.

The correction:

THE source who told us last week about Michelle Obama getting lobster and caviar delivered to her room at the Waldorf-Astoria must have been under the influence of a mind-altering drug. She was not even staying at the Waldorf. We regret the mistake, and our former source is going to regret it, too. Bread and water would be too good for such disinformation.

Yes, the former source. Not us, guv’nor. But – oops! – too late.

Craig Silverman has few more gems:

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Posted: 17th, November 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment