Number of words: 89 We gave an unlikely figure of 14m tonnes of snack food consumed during transmission of the Superbowl, which would be almost half a tonne for every American (What we’ve learned, page 28, February 1). We meant 14m kilograms. -Guardian (UK)There was a decimal slip in our Super Bowl snack food correction … Read more

Number of words: 42 Sunday’s Section A described the Illinois Senate race as close. A poll taken in mid-September showed Democratic candidate Barack Obama with a 51-percentage-point lead over Republican Alan Keyes. -Los Angeles Times Excerpted from page 128 of ‘Regret the Error’ by Craig Silverman

Number of words: 46 Language department, from page 7, January 24, where, referring to a mass burial site, we said, “In it were at least 150 bodies, interned in more than five layers…” That should be “interred.” -Guardian (UK) Excerpted from page 115 of ‘Regret the Error’ by Craig Silverman

Number of words: 56 In our report Russia’s big spenders flaunt their fortunes, page 23, October 28, we referred to the shopping sprees of “the hoards of rich”. As a reader writes, the Russian rich may have hoards of money, but collectively they move and shop in hordes. -Guardian (UK) Excerpted from page 113of ‘Regret … Read more

Number of words: 45 The man extolling the virtues of breast milk, mentioned in When is breast best?, page 9, G2, January 18, believed that it had given him remission from prostate cancer rather than prostrate cancer. -Guardian (UK) Excerpted from page 109 of ‘Regret the Error’ by Craig Silverman

Number of words: 55 Fulsome and fulsomely were again used in error in a complimentary sense. It means excessive or insincere in an offensive or distasteful way-Collins (Prayer Book Rebellion, page 14, G2, August 7, and Domenech’s quiet revolution is winning friends, page 2, Sport, July 8).         -Guardian (UK) Excerpted from page 108of ‘Regret the … Read more

Number of words: 64 Mr Smith said in court, ‘I am terribly sorry. I have a dull life and I suddenly wanted to break away.’  He did not say, as we reported erroneously, ‘I have a dull wife and I suddenly wanted to break away. We apologise to Mr Smith, and to Mrs Smith.                                              -Daily … Read more

Number of words: 117 Another now-famous example of error came a year later when the New York Times printed story after incorrect story about how the Bolsheviks in Russia were being soundly defeated. When the revolution was successful, the paper had a lot of backpedalling to do. Though errors and outright fabrications were on their … Read more

Number of words: 398 THE SPANISH -AMERICAN WAR of 1898 and the Journal’s boisterous support for it would be another key death blow to the “journalism of action.” (Though support for the war was widespread among newspapers of the day, there were marked differences in how they behaved. Hearst’s paper managed to distinguish itself by … Read more

Number of words: 195 ‘How do you like the Journal’s war?’ asked the front page of William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal for two days in 1898. This evocative question likely elicited a common response from his readers of the day: ‘Just fine.’In April of that year, war broke out in Cuba between Spain, who … Read more