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Corrections
in corpses’ dental enamel. The strontium
isotopes were stable, not radioactive.
December 3, 2014 Wednesday
Dana Milbank’s Washington Sketch column
in the Dec. 2 A-section incorrectly referred
to remarks made by President Obama “after
the 2013 Trayvon Martin killing.” Obama
made the remarks that year after George
Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing.
A map that accompanied a U.S. News
article Tuesday about home builders’
increasing use of solar panels showed the
intensity of solar radiation across the U.S.
on the basis of kilowatt hours per square
meter per day. The map’s legend incorrectly said it showed the amount of power
that solar-energy systems could generate
from that radiation. Systems typically
can’t convert all radiation to solar power.
A Shatila Journal on Saturday about the
Shatila and Sabra Palestinian refugee camps
in Lebanon, which have experienced sweeping changes since tens of thousands of people
displaced by the Syrian civil war have found
refuge there, referred incorrectly to the names
of a town from which Palestinians fled in 1948
in what is now Israel. The Arabic name of the
town in 1948 was Safad, not Safat, and today
in Israel it is called Tzfat or Safed, not Safad.
In a story Dec. 2 about religious leaders signing onto a Vatican initiative to
end modern-day slavery, The Associated
Press misspelled the name of one of the
signatories. He is Zen Master Thich Nhat
Hanh, not Zen Master Thich Hnat Hanh.
An article on Sunday about young Japanese
who have gone to Guadalcanal to help find the
remains of Japanese soldiers killed in the battle for the island during World War II referred
imprecisely to the 22,000 Japanese and 7,000
American deaths. They occurred in land, air
and sea combat, not just on the island itself.
did not win legal aid, but the European court
of human rights ruled that the denial of legal
aid to them case constituted a breach of their
rights to a fair trial and to free expression.
December 2, 2014 Tuesday
An article on Thursday about President
Obama’s new environmental regulations
misstated how ozone gets into the air.
Ozone is a smog-causing pollutant created by emissions from factories and coal
plants; it is not itself emitted into the air.
An article in the Nov. 30 Section A about a
call for the U.S. to replace its aging nuclear
weapons reported that former Los Alamos
National Laboratory director Siegfried
Hecker said the country could build a new
generation of weapons without underground
testing. Hecker, who opposes testing, believes that testing would be necessary.
An Opinion piece, 1 December, page 28,
said that “while London remains the most
prosperous city in Europe, nine out of the
10 poorest places in the EU are all in the
UK”. That figure was from a report by
Inequality Briefing, which found that nine of
the 10 poorest regions in northern Europe,
not the whole of the EU, were in the UK.
An article on Monday about the use of emails
from Steve Jobs in lawsuits involving Apple
misstated the month that a trial is set to begin
in a case in which Apple and five other Silicon
Valley companies are accused of conspiring
to keep wages down. It is April, not January.
A report saying that Muhammad has become the most popular name for baby boys
in the UK should have made clearer that the
information from the BabyCentre website
was based on a survey of 56,000 users who
gave birth in 2014. The latest official figures
show Muhammad was the 16th most popular name for boys in England and Wales
and the 52nd most popular in Scotland.
December 1, 2014 Monday
In a story Nov. 18 about Texas’ textbook
approval process, The Associated Press
reportedly erroneously that MerryLynn
Gerstenschlager said the proposed books
should describe “forced wealth distribution” imposed by the United Nations.
Grestenschlager said she wanted the books
to describe the “redistribution of wealth.”
The Economic View column last Sunday,
about patterns of spending on luxury
goods, misidentified the metal from which
a Reinast toothbrush, costing $4,200, is
made. It is titanium, not platinum.
An article last Sunday about the environmental record and state regulation of the North
Dakota oil industry erroneously attributed a
distinction to an oil spill last fall on the farm
of Steven and Patricia Jensen near Tioga. It
is considered the largest on-land oil spill in
recent American history, not the largest ever.
An article last Sunday about Basuki Tjahaja
Purnama, who recently became only the
second Chinese Christian governor of Jakarta,
Indonesia, the capital of an overwhelmingly
Muslim nation, misstated the role of Bambang
Harymurti, who commented on prejudices
against Chinese Indonesians. He is a former editor in chief of Tempo magazine, a
leading Indonesian weekly, not a founder.
A letter about proposals to tackle extremism
in universities (27 November, page 44) ended
“We are on a slippery slope that leads to where
Brecht forecast … Then they came for me.”
Those final words should have been attributed not to Bertolt Brecht but to the anti-Nazi
Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller. His famous
statement has been published in several forms,
one of which begins “First they came for the
Socialists …” and ends “Then they came for
me – and there was no one left to speak for me.”
A news analysis article last Sunday about
the rising tensions between Israelis and
Palestinians that center on disputes over the
plateau in the Old City of Jerusalem that is
known as the Temple Mount by Jews and
the Noble Sanctuary by Muslims referred
incorrectly to the Islamic Waqf, the council that oversees the site. It is administered
by Jordan, not by Palestinians, although
most of the people who run the site day
to day are Palestinian. The article also
referred imprecisely to the tunnels at the
Western Wall, which is below the plateau. While they run alongside the wall,
and below the level of the exposed portion where Jews gather to pray, the tunnels do not run directly under the wall.
November 28, 2014 Friday
OPEC decided Thursday to maintain its
production target at 30 million barrels a day,
a level it has rarely fallen below since 2004.
The text in a chart accompanying a Page
One article about the decision incorrectly
referred to a daily target of 30 billion barrels
and said OPEC production had not fallen
below its target between 2004 and 2011.
A news analysis article on Nov. 23 about
efforts by China’s leader, Xi Jinping, to showcase his country as the dominant economic
power in Asia referred incorrectly to the front
page of a local newspaper in the Australian
state of Tasmania where he visited after a
series of Asian summit meetings. The articles
were written in Chinese – not in Mandarin,
a form of spoken Chinese. (Standard written Chinese is based on Mandarin.)
An article on Wednesday about a decision
to release the grand jury documents in the
Michael Brown shooting misspelled the surname, after the first reference, of the St. Louis
County prosecutor who made that decision.
He is Robert P. McCulloch, not McCullough.
An Op-Ed article on Friday about the Sand
Creek Massacre of 1864 incorrectly described
the American Indian leader Black Kettle as
one of the nearly 200 people killed. He died at
the Battle of Washita in Oklahoma in 1868.
complaints. The article also misstated the
amount that Aruba Petroleum was fined
in 2012. It is $49,000, not $35,500.
HBOS was formed by a merger of Halifax
and the Bank of Scotland, not the Royal Bank
of Scotland as we said in a feature about
whistleblowers in last Saturday’s Weekend
magazine (Blowing it, page 32). The article
also misspelled the name of the American
psychologist known for a controversial experiment on obedience to authority figures.
He was Stanley Milgram, not Milgrim.
An article on Sunday about California’s
experience with the turmoil of immigration described incorrectly a group of
immigrants living in the state. It is onethird of the undocumented workers in
the country who live in California, not
one-third of all illegal immigrants.
November 27, 2014 Thursday
In the Nov. 26 Section A, an article analyzing the effects of the St. Louis prosecutor’s
having taken the Michael Brown case to the
grand jury referred to William Fitzpatrick,
president-elect of the National District
Attorneys Assn., as saying it was not usual in
a police-involved shooting case for a prosecutor to lay out all the evidence and not ask
a grand jury for a specific criminal charge.
Fitzpatrick said that it was not unusual.
In the Nov. 26 Business section, an article about SpaceX said that the Hawthorne
rocket maker was challenging the Air
Force’s block purchase of 36 rocket launches. It should have said rocket cores.
Singapore gained independence from Britain
in 1963, not 1965 as incorrectly stated in
an article on 27th November. The city-state
gained independence from Malaysia in 1965.
An article on Monday about the politics
surrounding an unusual land deal in the
North Dakota oil country described incorrectly a redistricting plan that eliminated the State Senate seat of Ryan Taylor,
a Democrat who ran against Gov. Jack
Dalrymple in 2012. Mr. Taylor’s seat was
eliminated in late 2011, as he was preparing to announce his candidacy, not after he
lost the election the following November.
An article about a legal challenge involving the precise location of the border
between Morocco and the Spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta, gave an incorrect conversion for the distance between
the current series of fences built to keep
Moroccan migrants from Spanish territory and an extra fence that Morocco is
building. The distance – about 500 meters – is about 1,640 feet, not 5,000 feet.
Donnerstag 27. November 2014
Im Artikel Wo lechts und rinks sich treffen
(ZEIT Nr. 48/14) sind leider vier Fehler
unterlaufen. Inge Höger ist nicht außenpolitische, sondern abrüstungspolitische
Sprecherin der Linken-Fraktion. Gemeinsam
mit ihrer Fraktionskollegin Annette Groth
fuhr sie nicht im Jahr 2012, sondern schon
2010 auf dem Schiff Mavi Marmara über das
Mittelmeer, um die israelische Seeblockade zu durchbrechen. Der Israel-Kritiker
David Sheen, der Gregor Gysi bis auf die
Toilette verfolgte, ist nicht Amerikaner,
sondern Kanadier. Die Abgeordnete Heike
Hänsel nahm am Gespräch ihrer Kolleginnen Groth und Höger mit Sheen und dem
Publizisten Max Blumenthal teil, sie hatte
die beiden aber weder zu dieser Runde
eingeladen noch zu einer zuvor geplanten
öffentlichen Veranstaltung am 9. November.
Freitag 21. November 2014
In dem Bericht „Klinik gibt Entwarnung
nach Ebola-Alarm in Neukölln” vom 19.
November hatten wir berichtet, dass es sich
bei dem erkrankten Dolmetscher um einen
Mitarbeiter der Botschaft Sierra Leones
handeln soll. Das ist nicht richtig. Der Mann
ist kein Botschaftsmitarbeiter. Ein entsprechender Hinweis der Botschaft wurde
redaktionsintern leider falsch weitergeleitet.
Die Feuerwehr war am späten Montagabend
zu der Wohnung eines 34-Jährigen gerufen
worden, das Virchow-Klinikum schloss eine
Ebola-Erkrankung am Dienstagmorgen aus.
In die Berichterstattung zu den sinkenden
Strompreisen in Hilden hat sich ein Kommafehler eingeschlichen. Der Strompreis
wird zum kommenden Jahr pro Kilowattstunde von 27,4 um 0,8 auf 26,6 Cent
sinken und nicht, wie irrtümlich gemeldet,
um 80 Cent. Bei einem für eine vierköpfige
Familie beispielhaften Stromverbrauch von
jährlich 4000 Kilowattstunden bedeutet
das eine Senkung um 2,7 Prozent sowie
eine Ersparnis von rund 32 Euro im Jahr.
Dienstag 18. November 2014
In der B.Z.-Ausgabe vom 14.11.2014
berichteten wir über den Prozess gegen
Veysel K. (33) wegen Drogenhandels.
Den Angeklagten haben wir als Trauzeugen von Rapper Bushido bezeichnet.
Das trifft nicht zu: Veysel K. war zwar
ein enger Freund des Rappers, aber lediglich Gast auf dessen Hochzeit.
In unserer Ausgabe vom 18. Oktober 2014
hatten wir unter der Überschrift „In Moscheen Geld für IS-Terror gesammelt”
berichtet, in der Raunheimer Moschee des
Türkischen Kultur- und Bildungsvereins
sei für den „Heiligen Krieg” der IS-Terroristen Geld gesammelt worden. Der Verein
bestreitet dies mit Nachdruck. Wir halten
unsere Darstellung nicht weiter aufrecht.
Donnerstag 13. November 2014
Bei der Vorstellung des in Würzburg ordinierten Rabbiners Shlomo Aminov ist uns
ein kleiner Fehler unterlaufen. Nachdem
er aus Paris zurückgekommen war, konnte
Aminov in Köln eine Wohnung von Freunden übernehmen, die nach Berlin umgezogen waren. Die Mesusot seien jedoch nicht
falsch angebracht gewesen, wie unser Text
vermuten ließ. Er sei sich lediglich über ihre
Anbringung nicht sicher gewesen, erklärt
der junge Rabbiner, der in Bonn amtieren
policy misstated the legal authority Mr. Obama
used to propose changes on immigration. They
are executive actions, not an executive order.
An Oct. 5 Page One article about how
the Ebola outbreak in West Africa got
out of control misstated the capital of
Nigeria. It is Abuja, not Lagos.
November 25, 2014 Tuesday
Police in Ferguson, Mo., were armed with
5.56mm assault-style rifles as they faced off
with protesters Monday night. A Page One
article in some editions Tuesday about a grand
jury decision not to indict a police officer in
the August shooting of a black teen incorrectly
said they used 5.56 caliber assault-style rifles.
An article on Oct. 30 about the racial tone of
some midterm election ads that Democrats
aired in the South referred incorrectly to
the creation of the “super PAC” Senate
Majority PAC, which ran an ad on black
radio stations in North Carolina saying the
Republican candidate, Thom Tillis, supported gun legislation that “caused the shooting
death of Trayvon Martin.” The political
action committee was created by former
aides to Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the
majority leader – not by Mr. Reid himself.
The story on page 1 yesterday headlined
“Protest leaders split over surrender”
should have said that the three co-founders of Occupy Central planned to “turn
themselves in to police” - not “turn themselves into police” – on December 5.
November 24, 2014 Monday
An article about claims by some residents of
Sark that they have been harassed by local
journalists said that the Sark Newsletter compared the government to the German administration of the 30s. To clarify: the comparison
was to the government in Germany at that
time, not to the German administration of
Sark, which came later, 21 November, page 4.
November 23, 2014 Sunday
The first name of Eric Garner, the Staten
Island man who died of an apparent New York
City police chokehold, was given as Kevin
in a Greater New York article on Saturday.
An article in the Nov. 16 A section on
India’s healthcare system incorrectly stated that between 2002 and 2012 an average
of 12 Indian women a week died due to
complications from tubal ligation surgeries. On average, 12 women died a month.
The Strategies column last Sunday, about
Cogent Communications, a company that
controls many of the digital interconnections that make up the basic plumbing of the
Internet, referred incorrectly to W. Hodding
Carter, author of “Flushed,” a book about
the development of traditional plumbing
– the pipes-and-porcelain variety. While
he is a historian on that subject, he is not a
former State Department spokesman. (His
father, Hodding Carter III, held that post.)
A cover article last Sunday, about the decision to privatize Southbridge Towers,
an affordable housing complex in Lower
Manhattan, misstated the occupation of
Paul Hovitz, a resident at Southbridge. He
is a retired special education teacher, not
a retired physical education teacher.
The headline on an article about a high court
ruling in the case of Yunus Rahmatullah, a
Pakistani citizen who says he was tortured
over a 10-year period after being captured by
British special forces in Iraq and handed over
to US troops (Man held in US has right to
sue UK, court rules, 20 November, page 13),
erred in saying he was held in the US. As the
longer online version of the story said, he was
held by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
November 21, 2014 Friday
An Op-Ed article on Tuesday about
waste in India misstated a process by
which sewage can seep into adjacent water pipes. It is leakage, not osmosis.
In the Nov. 19 Section A, an article about
Japanese families’ efforts to recover from
the 2011 earthquake and nuclear accident was accompanied by a photo of a
resident placing supplies into a vehicle.
The photo depicted Akie Arakawa loading water supplied by the nonprofit group
Fukushima Inochinomizu, not Rieko Okabe
with produce from the group Three A.
IN our article titled, ‘Jaringan: Pua out to tarnish 1MDB’ on page 18, yesterday, the article
mentioned that F.O.S. Apparel Group Sdn
Bhd had investments in the Cayman islands.
It has been brought to our attention that F.O.S.
does not have any investment in the Cayman
Islands. It is an operator of a chain of apparel
stores under the F.O.S. brand in Malaysia.
November 20, 2014 Thursday
In the Nov. 19 Business section, an article about restaurant wage-theft cases
referred to Shaw San Liu, lead organizer with the Chinese Progressive Assn. in
San Francisco, as “he.” Liu is a woman.
We said Detekt, a new software tool backed
by human rights experts and technology
groups, allows members of the public to
scan their computers and phones for surveillance spyware used by governments;
Detekt can be used to scan computers, but
not phones, 20 November, page 12. The
longer online version of the article also
said that the security researcher Claudio
Guarnieri, who developed Detekt, was
German; he is Italian, but based in Germany.
An article on Wednesday about a speech to
the United Nations Security Council by Zeid
Ra’ad Al Hussein, the United Nations’ new
top human rights official, who called on the
Muslim world to denounce the extremist group
that calls itself the Islamic State, referred
incorrectly to the oil refinery at Baiji in Iraq.
It was, until recently, under siege by Islamic
State forces; they did not seize control of it.
A Nov. 18 A-section article about President
Obama’s expected action on immigration
incorrectly said that executive action by
President Ronald Reagan allowed both the
spouses and children of people legalized under
the 1986 immigration law to remain in the
country. Reagan’s executive action in 1987
covered only the children of the newly legalized immigrants. In 1990, President George
H.W. Bush extended the benefit to spouses.
An article on Tuesday about a letter written by an Egyptian-American dissident,
Mohamed Soltan, and smuggled out of a
Cairo prison where he has been on a hunger
corrections and clarifications
adolescent girls misstated the timing of her
disappearance. She left her hometown of
Bethoncourt in October, not “last month.”
A photo appearing in Thursday’s print
editions with the news section article about
a 12-year-old boy fatally shot by Cleveland,
Ohio, police was not from the boy’s funeral.
In a story Thursday about a U.S.-Iraqi
deal of immunity for U.S. troops, the
Associated Press erroneously reported
that U.S. Ambassador Stuart Jones specified that current Prime Minister Haider
al-Abadi gave the assurances of immunity.
He said it was the Iraqi government, and
the U.S. Embassy has since clarified that
the agreement was reached in June, when
Nouri al-Maliki was prime minister.
The On the Road column on Tuesday,
an interview with the Transportation
Security administrator about T.S.A.’s
PreCheck program, misspelled the name
of a private company that also provides
fast-pass security. It is Nexus, not Nexis.
In a Nov. 24 story about university lecturers being monitored by reporters from
a Communist Party-run newspaper, the
Associated Press erroneously said Zhang
Wen is a professor at the University of
Science and Technology Beijing. He is
a part-time professor at the Huazhong
University of Science and Technology.
December 4, 2014 Thursday
An article on Sunday about the dropping of
all remaining charges, including murder,
against the former Egyptian president Hosni
Mubarak stemming from his attempt to
stay in power during the Arab Spring revolt
misidentified the source of a comment that
the judges who made the ruling were collaborating with Mr. Mubarak. That comment
was by Khaled Ali, a human rights lawyer; it
was not by another Egyptian named Khaled
Ali, who is a former presidential candidate as well as a human rights advocate.
December 5, 2014 Friday
An article on Tuesday about a 15-year-old
French girl who the authorities believe
joined jihadists in Syria after being lured
by Islamist websites that try to recruit
An article about a report produced by the
government’s chief scientist, Mark Walport,
said that it compared the risks of fracking
to thalidomide and asbestos. The reference
was to a chapter written by Prof Andrew
Stirling for the evidence and case studies that
accompanied the report. It did not directly
compare the risks, but said history presented
examples of innovation trajectories that later
proved to be problematic – including thalidomide and asbestos – and that innovations
including hydraulic fracking arguably offered
a contemporary prospective example. The
article and headline have been amended.
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Freitag 28. November 2014
Bei den Beteiligten der Messerstecherei an
der Nathan-Söderblom-Kirche in Reinbek
handelt es sich um zwei Malier und nicht, wie
berichtet, um Senegalesen. Ein Asylbewerber
hatte einen Mitbewohner angegriffen und
an der Brust verletzt. Gegen den in U-Haft
sitzenden Täter ermittelt die Staatsanwaltschaft wegen versuchten Totschlags. Dem
Opfer geht es mittlerweile wieder gut. Seit
April dieses Jahres leben elf junge Männer
aus dem westafrikanischen Mali in Reinbek.
In dem Artikel Wer fährt, wird erfasst
(ZEIT Nr. 49/14) ist von „Bewegungsdaten” und „Bewegungsprofilen” die Rede, die
im Rahmen der geplanten Pkw-Maut von
deutschen Autofahrern entstünden. Diese
Darstellung ist so nicht richtig. Zwar sollen
auch die Kennzeichen deutscher Autofahrer erfasst werden, um ihnen nachweisen zu
können, dass sie Bundesfernstraßen genutzt
haben und somit voll mautpflichtig sind.
Jedoch plant das Verkehrsministerium, nur
die Daten der ersten Kontrolle für bis zu 13
Monate zu speichern. Alle danach erhobenen Daten sollen umgehend wieder gelöscht
werden. Damit würden nur das Kennzeichen
und der Tag von einer Fahrt je Fahrzeug
gespeichert. Eine Erstellung von Bewegungsprofilen wäre auf dieser Basis nicht möglich.
Der als protzig verschriene neue Präsidentenpalast in Ankara ist, wie die Bilder
der Papstreise zeigen, durchaus schön. In
der vorigen Ausgabe der ZEIT berichteten wir von Erdogans Einladung an Franziskus: Der Papst sollte im Weißen Palast
allerdings nicht „wohnen”, sondern dem
Präsidenten nur einen Besuch abstatten.
Ein Wort der Woche in der vergangenen Ausgabe ( ZEIT Nr. 49/14), laut dem die Republikanerin Sarah Palin behauptet habe, wäre sie
Obama, würde sie alle elf Millionen illegale
Einwanderer in Boote stecken und zurück
nach Mexiko schicken, war ein erfundenes
Zitat der US-Satirezeitung The Daily Currant.
Das Deutsche Literaturarchiv Marbach hat
die Korrespondenz zwischen Martin Heidegger und seinem Bruder Fritz Heidegger mit
der Unterstützung der Stiftung Kulturgut
Baden-Württemberg und der Deutschen
Forschungsgemeinschaft erworben. In der
ursprünglich dazu versandten Pressemitteilung wurde versehentlich die Kulturstiftung
der Länder genannt. Der Stiftung Kulturgut
Baden-Württemberg verdankt das Marbacher Archiv bereits zahlreiche wichtige
Erwerbungen. In der Vergangenheit hat die
Stiftung wiederholt den Ankauf bedeutender
Autografen Martin Heideggers ermöglicht.
Donnerstag 04. Dezember 2014
In der ersten Version des Textes hieß es,
der Moderator würde die schnellen Neutronen abbremsen, um eine Kettenreaktion zu verhindern. Es ist jedoch so, dass
der Moderator die schnellen Neutronen
abbremsen muss, damit diese überhaupt
Kernspaltungen auslösen können.
Freitag 05. Dezember 2014
Währung auf Talfahrt Grafik vom 4.
Dezember 2014 In unserer Grafik zum
Verfall der russischen Währung auf Seite
13 fehlte der Hinweis, dass die Kurve
den Gegenwert von 100 Rubel in Euro
zeigt und nicht nur von einem Rubel.
The Rosh Hayyin Journal article on Tuesday
about the discovery by archaeologists that
ancient inhabitants of the Qesem Cave in
Israel made a practice of recycling tools
referred incorrectly to reports from 2010
that several teeth found at the cave provided
evidence of the earliest existence of Homo
sapiens in the world. Although the reports,
published in Israeli news media, went
beyond conclusions in academic papers, it
is not the case that they were erroneous.
October 29, 2014 Wednesday
A Wall Street Journal article in February
reported that some high-frequency traders
were getting direct feeds of corporate news
releases from Business Wire. A Money
& Investing article Wednesday incorrectly characterized the article by saying the
traders were getting the releases early.
December 6, 2014 Saturday
An Op-Ed article last Friday attributed an
erroneous distinction to the Union general
Patrick Edward Connor and the Colorado
governor John Evans, who were involved in
massacres of American Indians in the 1860s.
There is no state capital named for them.
An article last Sunday about the continuing
significance of camels for Jordan’s Royal
Desert Forces misidentified one of the items
that officers of the desert forces, a branch
of the national police force, used to carry
during multiday camel patrols. They carried ghee, or clarified butter, not lard.
December 7, 2014 Sunday
An article on Nov. 23 about a growing
movement among European governments to
recognize Palestinian sovereignty erroneously
attributed a distinction to Sweden in some
editions. Several European countries, including Malta, Albania and Cyprus, recognized
Palestine as a state in 1988, immediately after
the Palestine National Council declared independence; Sweden was not the first to do so.
An Open Source column on Tuesday,
about two young sisters in India who were
seen in a widely circulated video fending off three men who they accused of
sexually harassing and threatening them,
misstated the day that three suspects were
arrested in the case. They were detained
late Sunday, Nov. 30, not last Monday.
December 8, 2014 Monday
An article on Wednesday about a death
sentence imposed on nearly 200 defendants
by a judge in Egypt over the killing of 11
police officers during a riot last year misstated part of the given name of the Middle
East and North Africa director of Human
Rights Watch, who commented on the mass
sentencing and others like it in the country.
She is Sarah Leah Whitson, not Sarah Lee.
An article on Nov. 27 about a polio crisis
in Pakistan, made worse because of attacks
on health workers by militants and political
chaos, misidentified one of the people who
accused Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of
corruption and ineptitude. He is Imran Khan,
a political opponent, not Mr. Sharif himself.
A picture caption last Tuesday with an article
describing new data about the early universe
referred incorrectly to microwave radiation
recorded by the Planck satellite in one patch of
sky. The microwaves shown were emitted by
dust in the Milky Way, not by the Big Bang.
A tidal lagoon power project planned
for Swansea Bay is not expected to provide 8% of the UK’s energy, as a report
said, 2 December, page 4. What the energy secretary, Ed Davey, has said is that
a number of tidal lagoon projects “could
provide up to 8% of our power needs”.
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With further acknowledgment to readers
who regard these revisions, regrets, and
retractions with the same skepticism
they have the originals.
This is a newspaper without headlines,
allowing such doubletalk to talk to itself.
Perhaps what is conveyed unintentionally,
and by repetitious mistakes, is more revealing, more historically identifiable, and
substantially less conciliatory than it is meant
to be. This is both fortunate and inevitable.
Credit at a variety of levels to those seekers,
processors, middle managers, and ultimate
regulator of public information who take it
upon themselves (or impose it upon others)
to re-name, re-classify, disguise, defuse or
be de-briefed; who find clever metaphors
to obfuscate, euphemize and mystify; who
disseminate information according to
political structures coincident with particular
economic interests, who consent to use language to dismiss, excuse, cushion, cover and
obscure the consequences of actions and the
submerged structures behind events. And ultimately who, regardless of stated intentions,
occasionally reveal something, piece by piece
through slips in language and naming systems.
With purely editorial credit to those who have
provided the material for this publication
by having seen fit to correct themselves, or
having seen themselves fit to correct others;
who have sought in some public way to
offer apologies or clarifications—to redeem,
reveal, revise, retract, or shift, to simultaneously claim, deny, and reattribute blame
and responsibility. Credit is due for these
well-documented efforts to apologize for
what is being done and for what has already
been done, for continuing attempts to unsay what is said, un-mean what is meant.
December 9, 2014 Tuesday
An article on Nov. 26 examining the
grand jury evidence in the shooting death
of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., referred incorrectly to an exchange during
the testimony of Officer Darren Wilson,
who killed the unarmed teenager. It was a
grand juror – not the prosecutor – who asked
Officer Wilson, “You felt like your life was
in jeopardy?” and then followed up with
another question, “And use of deadly force
was justified at that point in your opinion?”
is an ongoing publication, an edited
compilation of daily revisions, retractions,
re-wordings, distinctions and apologies
to print news from September 2001 to the
present. A reverse-chronological catalog of
lapses in naming and classification, of tangled
catchphrases, patterns of mis-speech and
inflection, connotation and enumeration.
Corrections and Clarifications
An article on Nov. 11 about voters’ lack
of enthusiasm for an attempted political
comeback by Nicolas Sarkozy, the former
French president, misstated the timing of a
vote for president of the Union for a Popular
Movement, Mr. Sarkozy’s center-right party.
It was scheduled for late November, not
“next month.” The article also misspelled
the surname of a high school student who
asked Mr. Sarkozy what he intended to do
for young people if he won the presidency
in 2017. He is Amin Brimou, not Baimou.
October 30, 2014 Thursday
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
attended a celebration of the 91st anniversary of the Turkish republic in Ankara on
Wednesday. A photo caption accompanying an article Friday about Turkish influence in the Middle East incorrectly said
Turkey was marking its 85th anniversary.
An art review on Friday about “Helena
Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power” at the
Jewish Museum in Manhattan, using information from the museum, referred
incorrectly to the acquisition of a Helena
Rubinstein ring by Andy Warhol, who
drew her portrait in 1957. He bought it; it
was not a gift from her. (The drawing and
the ring are included in the exhibition.)
November 1, 2014 Saturday
In the Oct. 31 Section A, an article about
Jordan’s decision to ban celebrations related to Halloween said that alcohol is illegal
in the country. Alcohol is legal there.
An article on Oct. 12, about a boy’s fascination with battlefields, referred incorrectly to
the residents of Hawaii who made up a third
of the population at the time of Pearl Harbor.
While some were Japanese citizens, most
were people of Japanese ancestry; therefore, they were not all Japanese citizens.
November 2, 2014 Sunday
In the Sept. 21 Section A, a photo caption
with an article about the release of Turkish
hostages referred to Ahmet Davutoglu
as Turkey’s foreign minister. Davutoglu
became prime minister in August.
An article on October 30 about the interception
by RAF jets of a civilian aircraft described
the plane as a “Russian-made” Antonov An26 cargo plane. Antonov An-26s were not
produced in Russia, but in Soviet-era Ukraine.
November 26, 2014 Wednesday
A November 22 article about an east London
housing estate where tenants could face big
rent increases after it was bought by new
owners, said that Hackney council had no
responsibility to rehouse families who had
been evicted from private properties on
private land. That is not the case, although
those evicted from private housing would
have to meet the criteria for social housing.
An article on Saturday about gun control measures on the ballot in Washington
November 4, 2014 Tuesday
An article (Activists say pressure working
as SodaStream moves out of West Bank, 30
October, page 3) included a quote from the
boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS)
movement that referred to Rahat as “a planned
township in the Naqab [Negev] desert”. To
clarify, Rahat is an existing town whose population was recorded as over 53,000 in 2010.
An article on Saturday about the Discovery
Channel’s broadcast of Nik Wallenda’s
high-wire walk between two Chicago skyscrapers described the reach of the televised
event incorrectly. It was beamed to more
than 220 countries and territories, not to
that many countries alone. (There are 195
countries in the world, or 196 if Taiwan
is included as an independent country).
An article on Tuesday about the final hours
of campaigning for the midterm elections
referred incorrectly to the 1.5 million television advertisements aired during the
midterm election cycle. The number includes all broadcast television advertisements, including those by candidates – not
just advertisements by outside groups.
A World News photo Tuesday showed
Indian border troops in brown uniforms
and Pakistan Rangers in black in a parade
at the countries’ main border crossing.
The photo caption mislabeled the forces
and incorrectly described the uniforms.
Marianne Kah, chief economist of
ConocoPhillips, said oil prices would need
to fall to $50 a barrel “if you wanted to
completely halt production” of U.S. shale
oil. A Page One article on Oct. 30 about oil
prices and the U.S. energy boom incorrectly quoted Ms. Kah as saying prices would
need to fall to $50 a barrel “to really harm
oil production” in U.S. shale basins.
November 5, 2014 Wednesday
The Keystone XL pipeline would send up to
830,000 barrels of oil per day through the
center of the country to Gulf Coast refineries.
A Page One article Wednesday about business hopes for the new Congress neglected
to indicate the figure is on a per-day basis.
A reporting credit was omitted on
Wednesday for an article about the resignation in August of the official who investigated the Secret Service’s 2012 prostitution scandal and then was implicated
in his own incident involving a prostitute.
Frances Robles contributed reporting.
A-section article about Israel’s partial reopening of the al-Aqsa mosque in
Jerusalem misattributed comments calling for a “day of rage” in the West Bank.
The remarks were made by Fatah, the
political party of Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas, not by Abbas himself.
An article on Monday about reaction in Silicon
Valley to President Obama’s immigration
***
Mittwoch 01. Oktober 2014
In der Ausgabe 09/2014 hat Capital unter
der Überschrift „Komplizierte Zahlungen“
über Entschädigungen nach dem Einsturz
des Fabrikgebäudes Rana Plaza in Bangladesch (Seite 65) berichtet. Die Modekette
H&M legt Wert auf die Feststellung, dass
ihre H&M Conscious Foundation zwar in
den Entschädigungsfonds einzahlt, aber
kein Zulieferer von H&M vor dem Unglück in dem Gebäude produziert hat.
Samstag 04. Oktober 2014
Am 22. September ist in der „Welt”-Hamburg auf Seite 25 unter der Überschrift
„Harburger Moscheen unter genauer
Beobachtung” ein Artikel erschienen, den
wir versehentlich mit einem falschen Foto
bebildert haben. In dem Artikel ging es
um die Beobachtung der Taqwa-Moschee
in der Anzengruberstraße und der El-Iman-Moschee am Krummholzberg durch den
Verfassungsschutz. Auf dem in der „Welt”
dazu abgebildeten Foto ist dagegen die
Moschee in der Maretstraße zu sehen, die
zur türkisch-islamischen Union gehört und
mit den im Artikel erwähnten radikalen
Tendenzen nichts zu tun hat und auch nicht
vom Verfassungsschutz beobachtet wird.
Wir bitten, diesen Fehler zu entschuldigen.
Donnerstag 30. Oktober 2014
In der Ausgabe 44 ist uns auf Seite 57
in der Besprechung „Junge ohne Licht”
des Buchs „In den Gangs von Neukölln”
von Christian Stahl leider ein Fehler unterlaufen: Yehya E. muss nicht für sechs,
sondern für fünf Jahre ins Gefängnis.
November 3, 2014 Monday
An article in the Nov. 1 California section
about the 1974 discovery of Lucy, the partial
skeleton of an ape-like creature, misidentified
Lucy’s species as Australopithecus africanus.
The species is Australopithecus afarensis.
misstated the number of students killed in
a shooting last month at a high school in
Marysville, Wash. It is three, not two.
An article last Friday about the increase in
health complaints because of drilling described incompletely the regulatory efforts
by the Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality in the Eagle Ford and Barnett fields.
The agency issued 35 fines in the last two
fiscal years totaling more $436,000, not
six, which referred to air standard violations discovered in response to third-party
An article in some editions on Saturday
about a New York City employee who was
suspended for answering customer-service
calls like a robot misspelled the surname of
the employee’s supervisor at one point. As
the article noted correctly elsewhere, the
supervisor is Barry Novack, not Novak.
The Laugharne Journal article on Oct.
27, about celebrations in Laugharne,
Wales, marking the 100th birthday of
Dylan Thomas, referred imprecisely to
the location of last month’s NATO summit meeting. While some events were held
in Cardiff, the Welsh capital, the meeting
was held mostly in Newport, Wales.
An article on Tuesday about the challenge facing David Cameron, the British prime minister,
now that Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany
has signaled her disapproval of his plans to placate anti-European sentiment at home misstated
Mr. Cameron’s timetable for a referendum on
the European Union. He has pledged to bring
it before the voters by 2017, not by 2015.
A change made during the editing process
meant that the print version of an article on 6 November about the US midterm
elections said “Democrats were yesterday
facing their worst congressional election
results in decades”. In fact the 2010 elections
were worse for the Democrats in terms of
the scale of losses: while the Republicans
gained six seats in the Senate then (slightly fewer than this year), their gains in the
House were far larger – more than 60 seats.
In an article on October 24 and an editorial
on October 31, we incorrectly stated that
Takehiko Nakao, president of the Asian
Development Bank, had said he understood
but did not welcome the establishment of the
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. In
fact, Mr. Nakao did not say that he did not
welcome the bank, only that he understood it.
Montag 06. Oktober 2014
Der KURIER berichtete am 29. September auf den Seiten 1 und 4/5 über „Die
Akte S-Bahn”. Der Artikel enthielt einige
Aussagen, die der Korrektur bedürfen. Der
Geschäftsführer der Berliner S-Bahn, Peter
Buchner, legt Wert auf die Anmerkung, dass
er „zu keinem Zeitpunkt einen Fünf-Minuten-Takt auf der Ringbahn angekündigt”
hat. Er habe vielmehr „dargestellt, dass die
von mir vorgeschlagene Fünf-Minuten-Taktung innerhalb (!) des Ringes technisch
erbringbar ist”. Die Taktung „kostet die Besteller rund 1 Mio. Euro im Jahr”. Wir hatten
von höheren Kosten geschrieben. Aber Buchner hat in allen genannten Punkten recht.
Donnerstag 23. Oktober 2014
Im Leitartikel unserer gestrigen Ausgabe
(„Willkommen an der Alster”) haben wir die
Klage gegen eine Flüchtlingsunterkunft an
der Straße Offakamp versehentlich in den
falschen Stadtteil verlegt. Dieser Abschnitt
des Offakamps liegt nicht, wie berichtet, in
Groß Borstel, sondern in Lokstedt. Insofern
war die Kritik an Groß Borstel und seinen
Bewohnern unberechtigt. Tatsächlich gibt
es in Groß Borstel gleich mehrere Einrichtungen für Flüchtlinge (Sportallee, Heselstücken, Borsteler Chaussee) und ein großes
bürgerschaftliches Engagement für diese.
An obituary on Tuesday about David M.
Abshire, who coordinated the Reagan
administration’s response to investigations
of the Iran-contra scandal, misidentified the
country in which hostages at the center of that
scandal were held. It is Lebanon, not Iran.
A film review on Friday about the documentary
“Point and Shoot,” about Matthew VanDyke,
who spent several years filming a 35,000-mile
motorcycle trip through North Africa and the
Middle East, referred incorrectly to a scene
in Libya where Mr. VanDyke, who fought in
the conflict there, aims his gun out a window
(and misses his target). He said it would be
his first experience shooting someone; he
did not use the word “homicide.” The review
also referred incorrectly to Mr. VanDyke’s
childhood entertainment. While he says in
the film that he watched action movies and
played video games, he does not say that he
“devoured adventure comics.” The review also
misidentified the country where Mr. VanDyke
cites a ubiquity of cellphone cameras among
fighters. It is Libya, not Iraq and Afghanistan.
And the review referred incorrectly to his
entry into Libya and experiences there. He
entered alone, not with friends, and that was
where he first picked up “a heavy machine
gun,” not where he learned to shoot a gun.
November 30, 2014 Sunday
An opinion essay on Nov. 16 about sexual assault on college campuses misspelled
the given name of a legal scholar. She is
Catharine A. MacKinnon, not Catherine.
November 7, 2014 Friday
An article on Oct. 25 about quarantines
proposed by the governors of New York and
An article on Thursday about local initiatives
around the country to ban hydraulic fracturing misstated an action by the City of Los
Angeles. The City Council voted to order
the drafting of an ordinance to ban fracking
until it is determined to be safe; it did not
ban fracking. (A second vote, on the ordinance itself, would be required to do that.)
A map last Saturday with an article about
the fall of Burkina Faso’s longtime president, Blaise Compaoré, mislabeled Liberia
as Ivory Coast. The map, which highlighted Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou,
correctly labeled Ivory Coast, which is
west of Ghana and southwest of Burkina
Faso; Liberia is west of Ivory Coast.
November 8, 2014 Saturday
An article last Saturday about the revival of
painful memories of Romania’s Communist
past after allegations that a presidential
candidate, Victor Ponta, was once an undercover agent, though after the Communist
era, misspelled the surname of a former head
of Romania’s foreign intelligence service.
He is Teodor Melescanu, not Melenescu.
An obituary last Sunday about Bernard Mayes,
a former Anglican priest who started the first
suicide hotline in the United States and was
later the founding chairman of National Public
Radio, paraphrased incorrectly a passage in
his autobiography, “Escaping God’s Closet:
The Revelations of a Queer Priest.” Mr. Mayes,
who was gay, wrote that he was drawn to the
priesthood through his attraction to another
churchgoer, who was not gay and who at one
time intended to become a priest. He did not say
he entered the priesthood “after being seduced
by a member of the clergy.” The obituary also
gave an outdated telephone number for the
federally financed national suicide hotline. It
is 1-800-273-8255, no longer 1-800-SUICIDE.
(Calls to that number, which did receive
federal financing for several years, have been
rerouted to the current number since 2007.)
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, a Republican,
said, “We put our state on a pathway toward
economic growth and education improvement.” In a Page One article Thursday about
the GOP’s path ahead after Tuesday’s election
wins, Mr. Pence was incorrectly quoted as
saying the state was on a path of “economic growth and economic improvement.”
November 6, 2014 Thursday
The Grocery Manufacturers Association
is a trade group that represents most major
food companies and opposes state-mandated labeling of foods with genetically
modified ingredients. A Corporate News
article Thursday about the fight over GMO
labeling incorrectly omitted the word
“opposes” in describing the group.
Samstag 01. November 2014
In der Ausgabe 10/2014 haben wir in
der Rubrik „Meine erste Million” mit
dem dänischen Skype-Investor Morten
Lund über Reichtum und Abstieg
gesprochen. Im Bild zu sehen war aber
sein Gründerkollege Niklas Zennström.
An article looking at the issue of legal costs
in the Plebgate libel case lost by the MP
Andrew Mitchell last week, 28 November,
page 11, said legal aid “has almost never
been available for libel claims, although it
was eventually awarded in the McLibel Two
case, where the two campaigners were sued
by the McDonald’s food chain”. In fact the
McLibel Two, David Morris and Helen Steel,
An article on Oct. 30 about the confirmation in Tunisia of an election victory by the
secular Nidaa Tounes party over the Islamist
Ennahda party misstated the number of
seats won by a new liberal democratic party
called Afek Tounes. It won eight, not 15.
New Jersey in response to Ebola misidentified the organization that raised the issue
of constitutional concerns surrounding a
mandatory quarantine for people who have
shown no symptoms. It is the American
Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, not
the American Civil Liberties Union.
A brief report in the Observatory column on
Tuesday about burial practices in 17th- and
18th-century Poland to ward off vampires
referred incorrectly, in some copies, to the
type of isotopes the researchers analyzed
An article on Thursday about the latest
Internet sensation of “Alex from Target,”
a picture of a teenager bagging merchandise at the retailer that went viral online,
described incorrectly a subsequent Internet
posting of “Kel from Good Burger.” It was
a frame from the 1997 film “Good Burger”
starring the actor Kel Mitchell; it was not
a photograph of a teenager in a job.
An article on Oct. 17 about a study that found
that the quality of the communication between
children and their parents and caregivers was
more valuable than the number of words heard
in the development of a child’s language skills
misspelled the given name and misstated the
surname of a developmental psychologist at
Stanford. She is Anne Fernald, not Ann Ferald.
A Nov. 7 Page One article about signs of
normalcy returning to Liberia’s Ebolastricken capital, Monrovia, misstated
the name of the Ghanaian hip-hop artist
whose music was playing at a gathering
there. He is Sarkodie, not Sargo D.
A Nov. 9 Page One article about a U.S.
airstrike aimed at Islamic State commanders
in Iraq misstated the length of time that one
militant leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was
detained by U.S. forces at Camp Bucca in Iraq.
Defense Department officials said he was held
there for less than a year, not for four years.
An article on Thursday about a report that
implicated Chinese officials in the lucrative,
and illegal, trade in ivory, which has sharply reduced Tanzania’s elephant population,
misstated the prices for ivory at the time of
the Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to
Tanzania. It had doubled to $700 per kilogram,
or about $318 a pound – not to $70,000 per
kilogram, or $31,800 a pound. And the article
referred incorrectly to Dar es Salaam in some
editions. It is Tanzania’s largest city, not the
capital. (Dodoma is the seat of government.)
November 10, 2014 Monday
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to have about 480
Wal-Mart stores in China by the end of 2016.
In some editions Monday, a Marketplace
article about the effect of China’s austerity
campaign on the retailer incorrectly said WalMart plans to add 480 stores by that time.
A picture caption last Sunday with an article
about the growing skirmishes between the
old guard in Gstaad, Switzerland, and the
village’s newer inhabitants, using information
from a photo agency, misidentified the building shown. It was the Grand Hotel Alpina,
demolished in 1995 – not the Palace Hotel.
A report in the Observatory column last
Tuesday about plant reproduction referred
incorrectly to the sexuality of most plants.
Plants that have both male and female organs
are hermaphroditic, not self-pollinating.
A picture in some editions last Sunday with
the Nature column, about the yellow-rumped
warbler, was published in error. It showed the
Audubon’s warbler, not the myrtle warbler.
(Both are yellow-rumped warblers, but the
range of the Audubon’s warbler is limited to
the western part of North America, while the
myrtle warbler dwells in the eastern part.)
An article on Saturday about a judge’s approval
of a bankruptcy plan for Detroit on Friday and
how that ended a threat to the Detroit Institute
of Arts, whose artworks could have been sold to
help pay off city debt, misstated the institute’s
long-range goal for its endowment. The goal is
to raise it to $400 million, not to $600 million.
November 9, 2014 Sunday
A photograph accompanying a report on the
Financial pages (‘I have had some horrendous
experiences.’ The life of a foreign oil worker in Kurdistan, 5 November, page 31) was
captioned as showing “a pipeline near Irbil,
in northern Iraq”. We should have paid more
attention to the original photo agency caption,
which said that the large object in the picture –
shown being transported by lorry – was not
a pipeline but a section of an oil refinery.
marble sculpture of Adam by the Venetian
Renaissance master Tullio Lombardo misidentified which knee of the sculpture required
a fiberglass pin. It was the left, not the right.
corrections and clarifications
strike overstated what is known about the care
he is receiving. While he has been hospitalized, it has not been determined whether
he is receiving nutrients intravenously.
Henoko area as manatees. They are dugongs, distant relatives of the manatee.
November 17, 2014 Monday
Charleston is the capital of West Virginia. A
story Sunday about the Republican takeover
of many elected offices had an incorrect city.
In the Nov. 19 Calendar section, a photo caption accompanying an article about
Marvel’s diversity efforts said that the comics
publisher gave Thor a sex change in July.
A female character replaced a male character as Thor in an issue released in October.
The change was announced in July.
An article on Thursday about a United
Nations report that found a sharp rise in
opium cultivation in Afghanistan misstated
the increase in cultivation in 2013 over the
year before. It was 36 percent, not 49 percent.
An article on Wednesday about a terrorist attack on a Jerusalem synagogue that
killed four worshipers and a police officer
included erroneous information from the
Israeli police about the child of the officer,
Zidan Saif. The child is a girl, not a boy.
The incident that led to a civil rights lawsuit
filed by an African-American woman against
a West Babylon diner occurred Aug. 16. The
date was incorrect in a story yesterday.
An article on Thursday about the likelihood that
the emissions targets of the climate pact between
the United States and China will be met misstated, in some editions, the title of India’s leader,
Narendra Modi. He is prime minister, not president. And a chart with the article referred incorrectly in some editions to the United States’ carbon emissions. It has much higher emissions per
capita than China – not the highest emissions per
capita worldwide, a distinction held by Qatar.
There are nine blacks and seven whites on the
Ferguson Commission announced Tuesday
by Gov. Jay Nixon. The racial breakdown was
incorrect in an editorial in Wednesday’s paper.
November 19, 2014 Wednesday
An article on Saturday about President
Obama’s plan to change the nation’s immigration enforcement system misstated
the year young immigrants started protests
that eventually prodded the administration
to act. They began in 2009, not in 2012.
A Nov. 17 column by Jim Newton mischaracterized the role of the ACLU in helping
formulate the LAPD’s policy on drones.
Although officials from the group were consulted several months ago, the ACLU is not
currently working with the department on the
issue and opposes deployment of the aircraft.
Two pictures from The Associated Press with
a Critic’s Notebook article on Tuesday about
reflections on the past and future of Berlin on
the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin
Wall were published in error. The pictures
showed Leipziger Platz in 1962 and today –
not Potsdamer Platz, which came to symbolize the concerns and expectations of what a
unified Berlin should or should not look like.
An article on Thursday about a program
by the Manhattan district attorney’s office that would help other cities clear their
backlog of untested rape kits misspelled,
in some editions, the name of a national
DNA database. It is Codis, not Cordis.
November 16, 2014 Sunday
An article on Nov. 2 about a proposal by
Ed Miliband, the leader of Britain’s Labour
Party, to replace the House of Lords with
an American-style Senate referred imprecisely to the way legislation to replace the
Lords would take shape. While it is most
likely to be proposed by the prime minister’s office, the legislation does not have
to originate there; it can be proposed by
an individual member of Parliament.
The App City column in some editions last
Sunday about two apps, HeatSeekNYC and
Tug, misstated the temperatures that New
York City’s building code requires for proper
heating. Daytime temperatures in buildings
must be 68 degrees, not 55, and nighttime
temperatures must be 55 degrees, not 40.
November 18, 2014 Tuesday
Israel announced plans in late October to
build 1,000 new housing units in Jerusalem.
A headline on an Oct. 28 World News
article about the project incorrectly said
Israel plans to build new settlements.
In the Nov. 14 Section A, an article about
negotiations between the Colombian government and leftist rebels said that civil society
groups estimate the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia, or FARC, killed, abducted
or “disappeared” as many as 220,000 people
since 1990. The organizations cite the number
as an estimate of victims of all armed groups
in Colombia, including FARC, right-wing
paramilitary fighters, criminal gangs and the
military, since during the last half-century.
An article on Saturday about an announcement by the jihadist group Islamic State that
it planned to begin issuing its own currency
overstated what is known about the steps
taken by the Islamic State as part of its plan
to restore the caliphate that dominated the
Middle East more than 1,300 years ago. While
some news reports and diplomats from the
region said the group had started issuing
passports, and images described as those
passports were posted by the group’s sympathizers on social media, the Islamic State
never announced the issuance of passports,
according to the SITE Intelligence Group,
which monitors jihadist communications.
In the Nov. 9 Section A, an article about
spending during the midterm election said that
Democratic candidates and outside groups supporting them spent a total of about $1.64 million, according to the Center for Responsive
Politics. They spent about $1.64 billion.
A Nov. 17 A-section article about Takeshi
Onaga’s victory in Okinawa’s gubernatorial election and what it might mean for
the relocation of a controversial Marine
Corps air station incorrectly referred to
the endangered sea mammals in the
November 15, 2014 Saturday
In the Nov. 13 California section, an article about disputes over the relevance
of John Muir’s legacy misquoted Laura
An article on Sunday about the Metropolitan
Museum of Art’s restoration of a shattered
A Nov. 9 Page One article about the military alliance between the United Arab
Emirates and the United States incorrectly
identified the warplanes that UAE pilots
flew to Libya to assist Egyptian forces in
bombing a militia allied with the Muslim
Brotherhood. The aircraft were Mirage
2000 jets, not F-16 Fighting Falcons.
A Nov. 10 Page One article about safety
concerns stemming from the use of drone
aircraft at sports events incorrectly said that
the Federal Aviation Administration ordered
the Washington Nationals in February to
stop filming their spring-training workouts with a drone. The Nationals decided on their own to end the drone flights,
which were operated by an independent
photographer working for the team.
A capsule summary on Saturday for an article
about the departure of the editor of Amazon’s
only literary imprint misstated the editor’s
given name. As the article and a picture caption correctly noted, he is Ed Park, not John.
November 11, 2014 Tuesday
An article in the Nov. 10 Section A about flight
restrictions over Disney theme parks misstated the Federal Aviation Administration’s
positions on no-fly zones over Disney
parks and sports events by implying the
agency was seeking their removal. FAA
Administrator Michael P. Huerta testified
before Congress last year that, if the 2003
congressional mandate were removed, the
agency would not otherwise grant requests
for no-fly zones above Disney properties
under existing FAA rules. That 2003 law
also made no-fly zones above sporting events
permanent. If the congressional mandate for
those zones were likewise removed, an FAA
spokeswoman said last week, the agency
would consider such zones on a case-bycase basis and consult with other agencies.
An article on Nov. 3 about generating
electricity from tides misstated the type
of generating capacity exhibited by tidal plants generally. It is power-generating
capacity, not energy-generating capacity.
An article on Saturday about an F.B.I.
agent who impersonated an Associated
Press reporter referred incorrectly to a
professor at Washington and Lee University
who criticized the agent’s actions. The
professor, Aly Colón, is a man. The article also misstated the title of his professorship. Mr. Colón is the Knight Professor
in Journalism Ethics, not the Knight
Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics.
An article on Saturday about efforts by
Japan and China to step back from a longstanding dispute over islands in the East
China Sea referred incorrectly to Japan’s
control of the islands. Japan has held them
for most years since the 1880s, not since
World War II. (From 1945 to 1971, they
were controlled by the United States.)
name of the world body that the Palestinian
leadership has asked for a resolution calling for an end to the Israeli occupation. It
is the United Nations Security Council,
not the United States Security Council.
corrections and clarifications
Pulido, a professor in USC’s Department of
American Studies and Ethnicity, as saying
the naturalist “actively worked to disgrace
California Indians by taking their lands.”
Pulido said Muir “actively worked to displace
California Indians by taking their lands.”
An article last Saturday about efforts by
Chinese leaders to improve the air quality in Beijing in time for the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation forum referred
incorrectly to northwest winds from Mongolia
that meteorologists expected would cause
air quality in Beijing to deteriorate. To
cause such air quality deterioration, winds
would have to drop off, not move in.
A headline on an article in the Nov. 14
Section A about playwright Lynn Manning
said that violence in South L.A. took away
his sight. The shooting that resulted in the
loss of his sight occurred in Hollywood.
An article on Nov. 4 about a religious defense of Egypt’s forcible removal of families
from the Sinai Peninsula from a Muslim
cleric, Mufti Shawqi Allam, referred incompletely to his association with the Egyptian
government. Although he was appointed
by presidential decree after selection by
the senior scholars of a government-owned
religious institute, the mufti and his rulings are said to be independent of the
president under current Egyptian law.
The High & Low Finance column on
Friday, about the way in which Hungarians
ended up deeply in debt in Swiss francs,
misstated Moody’s credit rating of OTP
Bank, a large Hungarian-owned financial institution. It is Ba1, which is the
highest junk bond rating, not Ba2.
Because of incorrect information from a
source, a story on Page 3A in Wednesday’s
paper misrepresented silica levels at
three fracking sites. Encana had identified three work zones where silica would
exceed OSHA levels if no controls were
used. Also, because of a reporter’s error,
Energy in Depth was misidentified. It was
created by the Independent Petroleum
Association of America. That group and
the American Petroleum Institute submitted comments on the government’s
proposed regulations for fracking sand.
November 14, 2014 Friday
An article on Oct. 28 about renewed scrutiny
of immigration laws after an undocumented
worker was accused of killing two sheriff’s
officers in California referred imprecisely to
the Trust Act, which California lawmakers
passed to restrict the situations in which local
police may detain immigrants for federal
authorities. The law allows for some felony
traffic convictions to result in an immigration
hold. It does not specifically mention traffic
violations that do not result in an arrest.
An article in some editions on Nov. 4
about efforts to relocate remains belonging to the Van Alsts, an old Queens family, misstated the name of the hamlet in
which Joris Stevenson Van Alst, their first
ancestor to move to New York, settled.
It was Dutch Kills, not Dutch Hills.
An article on Oct. 15 about the awarding of
the Man Booker Prize to the Australian
November 12, 2014 Wednesday
An article on Oct. 28 about an announcement
by the Israeli government that it would speed
up plans for more than 1,000 new apartments in East Jerusalem misstated part of the
The Halmaj Journal article on Tuesday,
about a Hungarian work program for the
unemployed, and how it has taken effect
in the village of Halmaj, misspelled the
given name of the village’s mayor. He is
Jozsef Toth, not Jozef. The article also
transposed the given and family names of
a communal worker. He is Jeno Baba.
An article on Tuesday about the Rosetta
orbiter’s mission to put a lander on a comet
referred incorrectly to the timing of one part
of the mission. Rosetta was set to take a sharp
turn toward the comet in the early hours of
Wednesday, Eastern time, not on Tuesday.
(Rosetta successfully made the turn.)
A picture caption on Wednesday with an
article about Detroit’s vulnerability to future
fiscal crises despite a deal that allows it to
emerge from bankruptcy left the incorrect
impression that the old train station shown
is connected to the city’s financial woes.
While the station is emblematic of the urban
decay of the city, it is privately owned and
will not benefit from the bankruptcy deal.
An article on Saturday about the comet
Siding Spring and its flyby of Mars referred
incompletely to the source of pictures
that were taken of the comet on Oct. 19.
Both Martian rovers – Opportunity and
Curiosity – photographed the comet; the
pictures were not solely from Opportunity.
A picture caption on Saturday with an
article about Hungary’s gradual shift away
from democratic capitalism and western
values under Viktor Orban misstated the
timing of Mr. Orban’s most recent election
as prime minister. As the article correctly
noted, he was last elected in April – not in
2010, which was when he was first elected.
November 13, 2014 Thursday
A photograph accompanying a report on
12 November about rising tensions over
the holy site in Jerusalem known to Jews
as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as
the Noble Sanctuary was given the caption
“Palestinians protest in front of al-Aqsa mosque, which Israeli security forces
raided and closed last week”. However,
the building visible behind the protesters
in the picture was actually the gold-covered Dome of the Rock; the nearby al-Aqsa mosque has a lead-covered dome.
An article on Tuesday about Mary Berg, a
Polish Jewish teenager who wrote one of the
earliest firsthand accounts of the Nazi genocide
to be published in English, misspelled the surname of the journalist who helped her turn her
diaries into a series of articles and then a book
after she came to the United States in 1944. He
was S. L. Shneiderman, not Schneiderman.
novelist Richard Flanagan for his novel “The Narrow Road to the Deep North”
misstated the origin of the novel’s title. It is
taken from the title of a travel diary written
in prose and in haiku by the 17th-century Japanese writer Matsuo Basho; it does
not come from a line of Basho’s haiku.
wird. Er wollte mit seinem geäußerten Zweifel
in keiner Weise Menschen verletzen.
Im Beitrag „Vor einem Jahr der Jubiläen”,
MZ vom 12. November, ist eine falsche
Bezeichnung verwendet worden. Mit der
Lokomobile ist natürlich nicht der Nachbau
der Wattschen Dampfmaschine gemeint, die
im Mansfeld-Museum in Hettstedt in einem
1985 extra dafür errichteten Nebengebäude
steht. Bei der Lokomobile handelt es sich um
einen Dampfkessel, der auf dem Gelände des
Museums steht und zu bestimmten Anlässen angefeuert wird. Solche Technik diente
früher in der Landwirtschaft als Antrieb für
Dreschmaschinen oder für Dampfpflüge.
Liebe Leser,
in der Süddeutschen Zeitung wurde am
12. November ein Artikel mit dem Titel Tod als Alltag” veröffentlicht, den wir
auch auf Süddeutsche.de publiziert haben.
Wir haben den Text, in dem es um 43 in
Mexiko verschwundene Studenten geht,
mittlerweile von der Seite genommen.
In dem Artikel stand unter anderem der
Satz „Nachdem die mexikanische Justiz
am Wochenende behauptet hatte, bei in
einem Massengrab gefundenen Leichen
handele es sich um die Studenten, stellten die argentinischen Gerichtsmediziner
nun klar: Sie sind es doch nicht.”
Leser haben uns darauf hingewiesen,
dass die jüngste Erklärung der argentinischen Forensiker sich auf die Leichen
bezog, die bereits kurz nach der Tat vor
einigen Wochen aufgefunden wurden.
Seitdem wurden aber weitere menschliche
Überreste im Bundesstaat Guerrero entdeckt, von denen nicht klar ist, ob sie von
den verschwundenen Studenten stammen.
Die argentinischen Gerichtsmediziner
stellen in einer Erklärung weiter fest,
dass es bislang an keinem der Fundorte
Übereinstimmungen zwischen den gefundenen Überresten und den verschwundenen
43 Studenten gegeben habe. Endgültigen
Aufschluss über den jüngsten Fund sollen Untersuchungen an der Universität
Innsbruck erbringen, wie die mexikanische
Generalstaatsanwaltschaft bekannt gab.
In unserem Artikel Soll München stolpern?
(ZEIT Nr. 46/14) heißt es, dass die Stadt
München „bei ihrem Versuch, für den
Widerständler Kurt Eisner ein Denkmal
am Hof bräuhaus anzubringen”, gescheitert
sei. Tatsächlich befindet sich eine seinerzeit
umstrittene Münchner Gedenktafel für Kurt
Eisner in der Kardinal-Faulhaber-Straße, wo
der Anführer der Novemberrevolution und
kurzzeitige bayerische Ministerpräsident
1919 ermordet wurde - nicht am Hof bräuhaus und auch nicht am Bürgerbräukeller,
wo Johann Georg Elser 1939 sein Attentat
auf Hitler verübte. Zudem möchten wir
präzisieren, dass die nahezu 50 000 bislang
verlegten Stolpersteine heute in über 650
deutschen Städten und Gemeinden sowie
an rund hundert weiteren Orten in Europa
zu finden sind. Wir bitten, diese Fehler
und Ungenauigkeiten zu entschuldigen.
Montag 03. November 2014
In dem Artikel ist uns eine Namensverwechslung unterlaufen. Der erwähnte
Tweet im Zusammenhang mit dem innerparteilich umstrittenen Begriff „Waziristan”
stammte nicht von Jürgen Trittin, sondern vom Grünen-Chef Cem Özdemir.