It takes him five beers.

December 20, 2014 8:01 PM

Poynter's List of the Best (and Worst) Corrections, Retractions and Apologies in Media in 2014 Previously. Previouslier.
posted by Navelgazer (26 comments total)

I for one welcome our new goat masters.
posted by fallingbadgers at 8:17 PM on December 20, 2014 [5 favorites]

The war has been postponed. Ixnay on the oatgay astersmay.
posted by McCoy Pauley at 8:23 PM on December 20, 2014 [2 favorites]

Now I know how to spell wookiee.
posted by squinty at 8:23 PM on December 20, 2014 [2 favorites]

Banana, ejaculating dildo...eh, what's the difference?
posted by SisterHavana at 8:39 PM on December 20, 2014

You can leave the banana out on the dinner table when having guests over?
posted by axiom at 8:40 PM on December 20, 2014 [11 favorites]

I'm just glad Nashville has upheld the freedom for dogs to marry dogs.
posted by memewit at 8:41 PM on December 20, 2014 [1 favorite]

I'm so glad I never got minotaurs confused with one eyed monsters all of my life.
posted by oceanjesse at 9:07 PM on December 20, 2014 [2 favorites]

I like seeing how one of the corrections needs a correction...
"In yesterday’s “Chillin’ Wit” column, a fond farewell to former Daily News editor Zack Stallberg as he heads west to New Mexico, stall berg was misquoted..."
And I thought Stall Berg was a town in New Mexico...
posted by oneswellfoop at 9:13 PM on December 20, 2014 [3 favorites]

Loved the non-apology apology
posted by 724A at 9:38 PM on December 20, 2014 [10 favorites]

>>Banana, ejaculating dildo...eh, what's the difference?
Man, I ain't sending you to the supermaket.
posted by mono blanco at 10:16 PM on December 20, 2014 [14 favorites]

Or the sexmarket
posted by edgeways at 10:25 PM on December 20, 2014 [2 favorites]

But maybe the Supersexmarket
posted by edgeways at 10:26 PM on December 20, 2014 [5 favorites]

I am gratified to see that this includes my favorite correction of the year, that ospreys do not shit purple bird shit from eating berries. They eat fish, people!
posted by gingerbeer at 10:30 PM on December 20, 2014 [4 favorites]

That's fish, people, not Fish-people.
posted by five fresh fish at 10:51 PM on December 20, 2014 [13 favorites]

Aw, I was hoping they would end it with the birth notice gender correction. That would have been a nice note. And it's certainly one of the best, if not the best, corrections of the year.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 11:02 PM on December 20, 2014 [3 favorites]

I used to write for The Dartmouth! So cool to see them in this list.
posted by Aizkolari at 11:15 PM on December 20, 2014

Banana, ejaculating dildo...eh, what's the difference?

No need to ask
...
He's a smoothie operator
Smoothie operator, smoothie operator
Smoothie operator
posted by sebastienbailard at 12:10 AM on December 21, 2014 [4 favorites]

That's fish, people, not Fish-people.

Your vital interest in this matter has been noted.
posted by Wolof at 1:00 AM on December 21, 2014 [3 favorites]

Yay! They included my favourite error, the one about the crappy Gabor paper.
posted by daisyk at 1:00 AM on December 21, 2014

You can leave the banana out on the dinner table when having guests over?


Are you quite sure?
posted by louche mustachio at 1:31 AM on December 21, 2014 [12 favorites]

my God, louche mustachio. That site is gold.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 1:37 AM on December 21, 2014 [2 favorites]

OH SLAM:

"In a story ‘Britain’s biggest whinger’ {1 June] we stated that Marcus Stead, who appeared in the Channel 4 documentary The Complainers, ‘moans to the council every day for a year.’ Mr Stead says that, in fact, the number of complaints is closer to one or two per week. We are happy to put his position on record."

So British.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 7:59 AM on December 21, 2014 [1 favorite]

I like how the San Francisco Chronicle misspelled Yars' Revenge in its correction.
posted by hydrophonic at 8:19 AM on December 21, 2014 [1 favorite]

I like how apparently the NYT firewall has blocked access to Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, and Facebook.
posted by debgpi at 8:56 AM on December 21, 2014

They missed my favorite from NYTimes

Correction: January 23, 2014. An earlier version of this article misstated the plantings on the building's green roof. They were native flora, not native fauna
posted by arialblack at 3:20 PM on December 21, 2014 [5 favorites]

I think I was most surprised that the NPR editorial desk would use "farts" instead of something more NPR-y like, say, "flatus."
posted by psoas at 10:04 AM on December 22, 2014