Sentence examples for newspaper error from inspiring English sources

Notes on a possible movie with Chaplin, and on a newspaper error wherein she was referred to as "the Spanish disease".

It was only a fluke - a newspaper error, would you believe – that one day he read his own obituary and was disconcerted to find that's all he'd be remembered for.

His spokesman George Charamba told the state-owned Herald newspaper the error was a "mix-up [that] happened in his secretarial office".

Could a newspaper typographical error be considered a faux pas?

The comment was made to news agency reporters, and The Times obtained it from Reuters, though the newspaper introduced the error.

This is the rarely told story of that legendary error newspaper.

By pointing out the newspaper's factual errors, BildBlog has become one of Germany's most popular blogs, chipping away at the widely held belief that Bild is at least put together by professionals, and giving ammunition for yet more ironic pieces in the TAZ whenever its neighbour gets into more trouble.

The correction should have run in the same newspaper where the original error and all its little offspring had appeared.

Nonetheless, once the newspaper had recognised its error, it reacted quickly to put it right, in accordance with the terms of Clause 1 (ii) of the Code.

"When you read a poll in a newspaper, it says the error is plus or minus 4%," Gambera says.

If that's the kind of error a newspaper regrets and sincerely, no less surely the major facts behind any story are watertight.