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.
Best newspaper correction ever. pic.twitter.com/VzllYW7wBX
— James Melville 🚜 (@JamesMelville) August 2, 2018
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