NYT Misstates Diaspora's Crowdfunding by Factor of 10 - Mediabugs error...
Diaspora, an open-source project to create a federated system for social networking, raised just over $200,000 through Kickstarter, a crowdfunding platform. Rosen stated the project raised $20,000.
View Article'Ombudsperson', methinks - Mediabugs error report for Wordyard
Ironically, I failed to first use the Report an Error functionality to report this, uh, error. D'oh.'Ombudsman' should be 'ombudsperson', shouldn't it?
View ArticleInaccurate description in sports summary - Mediabugs error report for St....
In describing the first Canucks goal, Mr. O'Neill writes:"Pietrangelo lost an edge along the boards, turning the puck over and creating an opportunity for Aaron Volpatti."The highlight below indicates...
View Article**TEST** first bug report from sidebar widget - Mediabugs error report for...
Test 1Report from WA News council sidebar. (couldn't get hyperlink in this little rich text editor box thing to work :(((The Seattle Stickler misreported on the type of razor I used to shave my dog. I...
View ArticleThis DID NOT HAPPEN in Acapulco - Mediabugs error report for USA Today
This "tag line" would make one believe that these killings happened in Acapulco. They did not. Miles and miles and miles away. The U.S. press only wants to portray Acapulco as a bad place to visit. Not...
View ArticleAmerican jews were the most ardent supporter of civil rights - Mediabugs...
Ian Buruma states American jews were among the most ardent supporters of civil rights during the 50's and 60's.
View Articledecade error - Mediabugs error report for Regret the Error
"Update Nov.11, 2001"Need I say more?
View ArticleCritics Punch Holes in NYT Leaking Reactor Story - Mediabugs error report for...
I saw a complaint about errors in a New York Times story (“Powerful Aftershock Complicates Japan’s Nuclear Efforts” April 11, 2011) on a website called JPquake. I have copied and pasted the claim...
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View ArticleDisappeared - Mediabugs error report for The Japan Times
A retraction notice (for an article using phrases "identical or similar" to those found in another source) that appeared in the print edition of the paper was never published in the web edition and the...
View ArticleLooking for a Lick of Truth - Mediabugs error report for ABC2 WMAR-TV Baltimore
“In Japan, it's the new fad of showing affection...Eyeball Licking,” cries out the headline on an abc2news.com (the website of WMAR-TV Baltimore) article. While the news report’s title alone is an...
View ArticleWTF AW - Mediabugs error report for The Atlantic
Writing for the Atlantic Wire (August 26, 2013 – “The New York Times Deigns to Use the F Word”), Rebecca Greenfield exclaims that “In a nearly unprecedented move, the stodgy New York Times printed the...
View ArticleNot the TImes' First (or Second) TIme - Mediabugs error report for Salon.com
Salon.com has corrected a recent story (“The New York Times (Quietly) Drops the F-bomb”) claiming that the New York Times broke virgin ground when it quoted a passage from a Jonatham Letham novel...
View ArticleIn a Word - Mediabugs error report for The Japan Times
“Female GSDF officer to be assigned to NATO,” screams out a headline in today’s Japan Times. The article goes on to explain that GDSF stands for Ground Self Defense Forces (Japan’s defacto army) but...
View ArticleHeadline Error - Mediabugs error report for Japan Today
The headline says: "Man dies after setting himself on fire in Tokyo's Hibiya Park" (the bold italics are mine). The problem lies a few paragraphs into the article where it says: "The bespectacled man,...
View ArticleCorrection Half Right - Mediabugs error report for Newsweek
Yesterday "The author of this piece, Randy Simmons, is the Charles G. Koch professor of political economy at Utah State University. He's also a senior fellow at the Koch- and ExxonMobil-funded...
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