The erroneous print-edition headlines swiftly became fodder for ridicule; the online news site Coconuts Media ran an item chiding the media for "killing" Veloso.
Errors found at this stage were corrected by drawing a single horizontal line through the erroneous value, printing the correct value above or next to the original, initialing and dating the change, and adding an explanatory note when appropriate.
If you print erroneous information in an issue of your newspaper, take responsibility for the error by printing a correction or retraction in your next issue.
The other trouble from this time that he can't quite shake is the episode when he sued style magazine The Face for printing erroneous allegations that he was gay.
Up to 15,000 of the erroneous leaflets were printed.
A report in the Boldface Names column yesterday about an awards dinner honoring the actress Sharon Stone for her charity work included her erroneous identification of a magazine that printed an assertion she denies, that she had had a face lift.
With David Jay Lasky in Los Angeles and Patrick Healy in East Hampton Correction: August 25, 2004, Wednesday A report in the Boldface Names column yesterday about an awards dinner honoring the actress Sharon Stone for her charity work included her erroneous identification of a magazine that printed an assertion she denies, that she had had a face lift.
This erroneous information was never reported in the Rocky Mountain News print edition.
Two days before he died he supervised the printing of his final book, A Less Erroneous Kinetic Theory Of Gases.
Then CBS cast doubt on whether he had truly visited the site, in the form of a cleverly worded statement: "We will continue to let erroneous information be published about 'Survivor,' not only in the print media, but online as well".
Correction: October 17, 2004, Sunday A picture of Gish Jen, printed on Oct. 3 with a review of her novel "The Love Wife," carried an erroneous credit.
