Important Corrections of Record

Correction: The article below said that, due to the rotation of the Earth gradually slowing down over time, this winter solstice would feature the longest night ever.

I got this wrong. The Earth's rotation is gradually slowing on an extremely long timescale, but on a shorter year-to-year basis, geologic factors can alter the speed as well.

http://www.vox.com/2014/12/21/7424371/winter-solstice

Some good ones at http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/306801/the-year-in-media-errors-and-corrections-2014/

http://www.vox.com/2014/9/24/6838989/iggy-azalea-is-not-the-queen-of-rap

Correction: An earlier version of this piece mistook the fan account for the real account of Iggy Azalea.

Correction: An earlier version of this post said millions of Americans live on less than $1.25 a day. The correct figure is $2.

Correction: A previous version of this article reported that Bundesen had made $99.5 million off of Grumpy Cat. The piece has been updated.

Correction: The chart in this post originally claimed to show the average number of suicides per month. It actually shows the average daily suicide rate per month.

Correction. The first chart in an earlier version of this post said it listed the number of toilets per capita, not per 100 people. Clearly that was wrong — 102 toilets for every 1 Boulder resident would be way too many.

Correction: This story originally stated that this panel's discussion took place on November 24. As Mic's Jared Keller pointed out, it in fact occurred in April — way before the shooting of Michael Brown. We regret the error.

Correction: An earlier version of this post said the map looked at all tweets sent in the 3.5 years. In fact, it only covers specifically geotagged tweets.

Correction: An earlier version of this article mistakenly identified TKM-Ebola as a vaccine. While it has been tested as an Ebola treatment, it is not a vaccine.

Correction: This piece originally indicated Peter and Homer stole the gasoline they drank from the hose, but, indeed, they paid for it.

Correction: An initial version of this post misidentified the state most thankful for Pinterest. It is Vermont.

Correction: A reader pointed out Cantor might be able to run as a write-in, since the Virginia law only explicitly forbids his name from appearing on the ballot.

Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that Cervarix was approved for boys; only Gardasil and Gardasil 9 have been approved for both boys and girls.

Correction: This article originally suggested that Beebe has not pardoned marijuana offenders other than his son. In fact, a number of others have received pardons for marijuana-related offenders, though many others have not.

Correction: This piece originally stated that Joe Cocker had been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Sadly, he has not been.

Correction: The original version of this post misidentified Barry Manilow as Rod Stewart. We deeply regret the error.

Correction: An earlier version of this post misidentified Wyoming as Colorado.

Correction: This piece — and its headline — originally emphasized the gender skew of the top 1 percent without noting the overall gender skew or the methodological issues that gave rise to it. The headline has been changed and the text corrected.

Correction: A previous headline on this story indicated that Ferguson's police force is 94 percent white. It is currently unclear how many white officers are on Ferguson's police force.

CORRECTION: This post originally said that children becoming US citizens have to pass the standard citizenship test. In fact, if a parent becomes a US citizen through the standard process (including a citizenship test), the child becomes eligible for citizenship without having to go through the full process. We apologize for the error.

Correction: The original version of this post called the "Dark Vador" burger a misprint. "Dark Vador" is actually the French name for Darth Vader.

Correction: this post originally referred to the Oxford English Dictionary, not the Oxford Dictionaries Online.

Correction: This article originally attributed the wrong quote to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Correction: This article originally stated that the Times and the Post had 1330 and 650 reporters, respectively. In fact, these were the figures for the entire newsroom, not just reporters.

Correction: An initial version of this post mis-stated the amount of health care spending that goes towards doctor salaries. Fifty-six percent of health spending goes towards the salaries of all health care workers, not just doctors.

Correction: This article was totally wrong. While works of the federal government cannot be copyrighted, the federal government can acquire copyrights from private citizens. The obverse of the Sacagawea dollar was designed by Glenna Goodacre, who may have assigned her copyright to the US Mint. We regret the error. The original post appears below.

Correction: This post originally presented the video of a bird pooping on Putin as real, but comparison with Russian news footage from the event shows it to be a hoax. Putin's unintentionally ironic speech decrying "excessive ambitions in war," though, was very real.

Correction: An early version of this article incorrectly said Hammon would be the first woman to ever serve on an NBA coaching staff.

Correction: An earlier version of this article said that Germany isn't a major arms exporter. According to SIPRI, it is actually the #3 weapons exporter in the world.

Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the year that House Bill 2 passed. It passed in 2013, not 2011.

Correction: Senators Mark and Tom Udall are cousins, not brothers.

CORRECTION: Many of the key elements of Maarten de Jonge's story have been disproven by subsequent reporting (particularly by Slate). There is no evidence that De Jonge actually booked a ticket on either flight. We're sorry for repeating unverified claims.

are they sorry. are they really

Correction: This post originally gave incorrect dates for the introduction of radio and television technology and the invention of the cell phone. It also mis-labeled the web as the internet. We regret these errors.

Correction: The article originally stated that Constantinople fell in 1452. It actually fell in 1453. It originally stated that Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire, but he only began the process of Christianization. And it originally stated that triremes have 3 rowers per oar, but in fact they have 3 banks of oars, with one rower per oar. I also tweaked my description of quinqueremes.

Correction: The story previously stated that one of the hazards of deep-sea diving is gas necrosis. The sentence has been corrected to gas narcosis.

Correction: an earlier version of this post said "Lotus Flower" was the best song on Thom Yorke's album on second reference."Lotus Flower" appears on an earlier Radiohead album and is much better than "Pink Section," the best song on Tomorrow's Modern Boxes.

now they're just screwing with us

haha i swear i didn't see this gawker story before i did this. i guess its just in the air!

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/46-times-vox-totally-fucked-up-a-story-1673835447/+laceydonohue

Take a bow, New York Times.

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5178eDPbrPL._AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-47,22_AA300_SH20_OU15_.jpg

An article last Thursday about Adam Reed Tucker, a professional Lego modeler, referred incorrectly to the novels of Ayn Rand in describing Mr. Tucker. As a former architect, Mr. Tucker is more like the character Howard Roark, an architect, in “The Fountainhead” — not John Galt, a character in “Atlas Shrugged” who was not an architect.

UPDATE: ModelViewCulture CEO Shanley Kane has asked me to describe her not as a "diversity advocate" or "diversity activist" and to instead identify her as the co-founder and CEO of a media company that is better than the one I work for. I've updated the post to reflect that.

http://valleywag.gawker.com/now-some-assholes-are-taunting-the-pro-diversity-people-1680013510

this doesn't say what the update was, and given what the article still says i wonder wtf it could be http://www.vox.com/2015/1/12/7531357/national-front-platform

In the second item of the California 10th NewsMinute sent March 16 to users of the state broadcast wire, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Robert Durst is a member of a band. He is a real estate heir; Fred Durst is a member of the band Limp Bizkit.

http://www.kusi.com/story/28540293/news-minute-correction-california-10th-newsminute

An article on Sunday about former President Bill Clinton’s role in his wife’s likely presidential campaign referred imprecisely to the driver of Mr. Clinton’s S.U.V. The vehicle is driven by a United States Secret Service agent; Mr. Clinton is not “chauffeured.”

This piece originally listed Jay Z's wife as Rihanna. His wife is Beyonce.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121421/jay-zs-new-music-streaming-service-tidal-has-many-flaws

Correction: Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this article at one point referenced the My Lai massacre and Ghouta chemical weapons attack as occurring in 1969 and 2014, respectively, when in fact those were the years when Hersh's stories on the incidents were published. Other references to those events in the story described their timing accurately. The article has been corrected.

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/11/8584473/seymour-hersh-osama-bin-laden

The Big City column last Sunday, about reaction to previews of a book about wives on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, referred incorrectly to a woman who wrote a blog post for Elle magazine about life in the neighborhood. Her byline, Blair Schmaldorf, is a pseudonym, not her real name, which she will not disclose.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/nyregion/the-clique-of-the-upper-east-side.html

lol Schmaldorf

CORRECTION: A previous version of this story said Kanye had tweeted out a photo of a Samsung computer. In fact, the photo shows an Apple laptop hooked up to a Samsung monitor.

Correction (3/11/2016, 12:16 p.m.): This article originally stated incorrectly that Peter Calautti doesn't support Mr. Trump's proposed ban on Muslims entering the country. He does.

An article on Monday about the 25th volume of “The Complete Peanuts,” with a foreword by President Obama, misstated the chronology of “The Complete Far Side” by Gary Larson relative to the “Peanuts” series by Charles M. Schulz. The two-volume “Far Side” set was published in October 2003; the first “Peanuts” volume came out in 2004. Therefore it is not the case that the “Peanuts” series “paved the way” for the “Far Side” reprint edition.

An article on Monday about the musician Emitt Rhodes, who released an album last month after abandoning a pop career 43 years ago, misidentified the fictional character whose story was reminiscent of Mr. Rhodes’s long unused home studio. He is Rip Van Winkle, not Rumpelstiltskin.

http://i.imgur.com/3NsDWcP.jpg

o_O

UPDATE: The story has been killed by Agency France-Presse due to errors in the exchange rate.You may be still be able to buy a burger at somewhat affordable prices, but it doesn't negate the fact that Venezuela is in a death spiral thanks to socialism.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/05/23/behold-the-170-burger--thanks-to-venezuelan-socialism-n2166790

This article originally mischaracterized the critical reception of Vice Principals as overwhelmingly negative. We regret the error.

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/10/the-tragedy-of-vice-principals/503873/

Death of a Hardcore Top

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2016/11/16/rather-unfortunate-newspaper-correction-leonard-cohen/

You Won’t Beliebe Justin Bieber’s New Tattoo
Update, Oct. 21, 2017: This post initially misspelled Justin Bieber’s last name.

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i too only attempt intercourse with crow corpses

hi, i'm corey taylor from slipknot, ama

Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated Diana Watson’s order. She takes her steak plain with no cheese. It also incorrectly stated her son Clint is adopted. He is not.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/03/20/precision-dining-why-this-couple-has-been-eating-same-meal-texas-roadhouse-six-days-week-years/?utm_term=.a5f85c9a9455

In honor of this great GQ correction, what are some of your favorite newspaper/magazine/website corrections of all-time? pic.twitter.com/AKY8X2sNHx

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) November 22, 2019

Great revive

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Infuriating

omg

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thank you for your service mookie

[Editor's note: An earlier version of this piece misstated the number of people of color who have appeared on Belle & Sebastian record sleeves; the reference has been removed and Pitchfork regrets the error.]

CORRECTED pic.twitter.com/jjRBr9aNI6

— horse powder (@JuliusIrvington) September 30, 2022

lol

a bleak lol

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six days later!

A correction was made on June 30, 2025: An earlier version of the chart in this article showing voters by age incorrectly identified the age group with the largest turnout. It was voters aged 30 to 34, not those aged 18 to 24.

original
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We still stand by our analysis that it’s those dumb blue haired kids

ty xp