Journalism at its best

From my new favorite website, Regret the Error:

The Toronto Star: A story in Saturday's Star incorrectly stated the Toronto police did not respond to requests for comment about a World Tamil Movement event. In fact, they responded promptly, leaving four messages. The Star regrets the error.

The Akron Beacon Journal: An article Friday about the Democratic primary for Ohio attorney general contained a headline that incorrectly identified candidate Subodh Chandra as a native of India. He was born and raised in Oklahoma. An editor erred.

The Times: A front-page article on April 25 about seating options that airlines are considering to accommodate more passengers in economy class referred incorrectly to the concept of carrying passengers standing up with harnesses holding them in position. During preparation of the article, The Times's questions to one aircraft manufacturer, Airbus, were imprecise and did not make it clear that the reporter was interested in standing-room "seats." As a result, the article said the company would not specifically comment on the upright-seating proposal. The company now says that while it researched that idea in 2003, it has since abandoned it.A correction of the article appeared on this page on Tuesday. It should have acknowledged that if The Times had correctly understood the history of the proposal, the article would have qualified it, and would not have appeared on Page A1.

The Guardian: We were wrong to say that a map accompanying reports of the bombings in Dahab extended Egypt to cover the area of Israel and Jordan (Corrections, page 28, April 26). The map had Egypt in the correct place, but labelled an area that included part of Israel and Jordan as Saudi Arabia.

The Guardian: In an article about widows' rights in Nepal, page 18, G2, April 24, we said "A decade of conflict has created millions of widows [there] ..." Our correspondent, reporting from Kathmandu on page 18 of the main paper on the same day, implied a more accurate total when he said that the conflict had "claimed the lives of more than 13,000 people".