9 world class newspaper corrections to put a smile on your face
Here’s a cracker of a newspaper correction spotted by @JamesMelville and he reckons it’s the best newspaper correction ever.
It’s up there isn’t it (from the Morning Star, by the way). And when we say up there, we mean with this little lot.
We start – where else? – with the Guardian and an all-time classic about its interview with the then Wolves chairman, Sir Jack Hayward.
Local news now.
Breaking news: pic.twitter.com/SfPD3e2Yj4
— Crap Local News (@CrapLocalNews) September 29, 2017
Snapchat trouble at the New York Times.
Possibly my favorite Islam-related NYT correction of all time. https://t.co/aQObQpFTfa pic.twitter.com/Oq05uUF65z
— Shadi Hamid (@shadihamid) May 9, 2016
Urine problems at the Financial Times
Best FT article correction ever. https://t.co/RJQwCrQZIz pic.twitter.com/CCBqvp1tw7
— Sid Verma (@_SidVerma) May 5, 2016
Wired forgets to turn off a Chrome extension.
Gawker regrets an error in an article about online errors.
Top-notch emoticon use in this correction from Gawker at the end of this Jeff Jarvis article https://t.co/Mc34A5m4I2 pic.twitter.com/Bh0u5iI8YK
— Tara Mulholland (@tara_mulholland) April 30, 2016
The Guardian have to correct almost everything about this article.
And finally, to The Times!
One of *the* classic newspaper corrections in @thetimes today pic.twitter.com/JualyxgEIq
— Toby Harnden (@tobyharnden) February 2, 2018