CELEBRATING THE MEDIA BLUNDERS OF 2007
December 20th 2007 00:37
Canadian freelancer Craig Silverman, in his Regret The Error blog, has this week celebrated some of the media’s biggest blunders in 2007.
His favourites include blunders about US politician Barack Obama.
Obama was mistaken for the notorious ‘Osama’ on CNN and in a news report by the New York Post. The Houston Chronicle referred to him as a Republican and several misplaced typos could have potentially damaged his image.
The blog’s 2007 Plagiarism-Fabrication Round-Up revealed that there was a significant rise of instances of plagiarism at US student newspapers.
Silverman awarded this extract from the Independent Saturday magazine in the UK as best correction of the year,
“Following the portrait of Tony and Cherie Blair published on 21 April in the Independent Saturday magazine, Ms Blair’s representatives have told us that she was friendly with but never had a relationship with Carole Caplin of the type suggested in the article. They want to make it clear, which we are happy to do, that Ms Blair “has never shared a shower with Ms Caplin, was not introduced to spirit guides or primal wrestling by Ms Caplin (or anyone else), and did not have her diary masterminded by Ms Caplin.”
Best typo of the year went to a photo caption relating to Anna Nicole Smith,
“When Redding, a long time scout for Playboy, discovered Smith, the model could barely right a sentence…”
Another fab blunder of 2007 was the picture of a submarine used by a Russian TV network to illustrate a story about a Russian voyage to the Arctic. The same picture was redistributed globally by Reuters and used by NBC Nightly News before it was discovered it came from the movie Titanic.
- From MediaBlab
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