2003 Corrections
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Because of an editing error, the article "Three cheers for the Democrats' filibuster" by John W. Dean, published on Nov. 13, 2003, originally included an incorrect reference to the appointment of Justice William Rehnquist as Chief Justice by President Richard Nixon. The reference has been removed. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 11/13/03]
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In the Nov. 5 edition of "Right Hook," Salon incorrectly stated that columnist Barbara Amiel is British. Amiel is Canadian. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 11/05/03]
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In the Nov. 4 story "Mission
Demolished," Salon incorrectly stated the date this summer when
President Bush, in response to concerns about Iraqi resistance fighters,
declared, "Bring 'em on." The correct date was July 2. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the
error.
[Correction made 11/04/03]
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In the Oct. 31 story "Did She Really Betray Women?" Salon incorrectly stated that Lesley Jane Seymour, editor in chief of Marie Claire, "did not quite damn" the publication the Globe. This sentence should have been attributed to Ellen Levine, editor in chief of Good Housekeeping instead. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 10/31/03]
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In the Oct. 28 story "No
Sex Please -- or We'll Audit You," Salon
incorrectly reported that in 1992 the CDC posted a
list of sex education "Programs that Work" on its Web
site. In fact, the list was posted on the Web site in
1999. Salon also incorrectly reported that on Oct. 2,
Rep. Joseph Pitts presented the House Energy and
Commerce Committee with a list of 150 scientists whose
work is funded by NIH grants. In fact, Pitts presented
the committee with a list of 10 scientists whose work
is funded by NIH. The list of other 100 or so
scientists originated with the Traditional Values
Coalition. The story has been corrected. Salon
regrets the errors.
[Correction made 10/29/03]
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In the Oct. 8 story "Are You Ready For Some Unswooshing," Salon incorrectly reported that Jeff Ballinger had been retained by Kalle Lasn to source a union factory for the Unswoosher. Lasn instead retained the company No Sweat Apparel, for which Jeff Ballinger works. The error has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 10/28/03]
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In the Oct. 27 story "Who's the Meanest of Them All," Salon incorrectly reported that, at the
Democratic presidential debate in Detroit on Sunday, Oct. 26, retired
Gen. Wesley Clark took former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean to task for his
inexperience with foreign policy and defense issues. In fact, Massachusetts
Sen. John Kerry made those comments about Dean. The error has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 10/27/03]
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In "Matt Drudge, GOP Scourge?" Salon reported that Drudge had given nearly $2,500 to the GOP in 2001. Drudge declined to be interviewed for the story, but after it was published, he e-mailed to say he nas "never" given money
"to anyone in politics," and that the GOP donation was "a fraud. Someone did it in my name." The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 10/01/03]
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In the Sept. 30 story "Invasion of the High-Tech Body Snatchers" Salon made an erroneous reference to WWII-era B-52 bombers. The B-52 was not introduced until after WWII. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 9/30/03]
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In the Sept. 17 story "Wesley Clark: The New Howard Dean?" Salon erroneously reported that as governor of Vermont Howard Dean signed gay marriages into law. He
signed civil unions legislation into law. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 9/17/03]
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In the Aug. 27 story "They Can't Go Home Again," Salon
erroneously reported that three-quarters of Texas state senators and
congressmen must be present in their chambers before business can be
done. In fact, only two-thirds must be present. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 8/28/03]
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In the article "Woods on fire," actor James Woods described a conversation with columnist Robert Scheer in which Scheer expressed "hatred" for President Bush. Scheer denies such a conversation ever took place.
[08/01/03]
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The story "Are We Safer Now?" published July 31, 2003, incorrectly reported that Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida were responsible for the 1996 truck bombing that killed 19 Americans at the Khobar Towers barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. United States officials have publicly stated the attack was carried out by members of a pro-Iranian group known as Saudi Hezbollah, and was not the work of al-Qaida. Salon regrets the error. The story has been corrected by the removal of the erroneous statement.
[Correction made 08/01/03]
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Due to an editing error in the article "God's Hip Language" (July 29, 2003), Salon reported that Rabbi Yehuda Berg appeared on the television show "Dateline" with Madonna. He did not. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 07/29/03]
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The article "Spooked by the White House," published on July 18, 2003, originally contained a statement by the interviewee, former CIA officer Ray McGovern, that McGeorge Bundy had served as president of Harvard University. Bundy in fact served as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. We have corrected the statement in the story, in brackets.
[Correction made 07/18/03]
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Due to an editing error in the article "Putting Mary Poppins Under Surveillance" (July 17, 2003), a sentence was omitted from the end of the ninth paragraph. The sentence has been added back. It reads: "Eventually, the nanny left the room altogether, coming back only to yell at Evan." The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 07/17/03]
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In his July 9 column, King
Kaufman chided National League manager Dusty Baker for leaving Jeff Kent of Houston off the All-Star roster. Kent is on the disabled list. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 07/09/03]
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The story "Millions Die, Bush Is Silent" incorrectly stated that Joseph Conrad was referring to the Belgian Congo in the following quote from "Heart of Darkness": "This also has been one of the dark places of the earth." In fact he was referring to ancient England in comparison to the Belgian Congo. Salon regrets the error. The story has been corrected.
[Correction made 07/07/03]
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The June 23 King
Kaufman's Sports Daily incorrectly listed Syracuse University as a
defendant in the lawsuit filed by five Big East schools against the
Atlantic Coast Conference, Boston College and the University of Miami. The
story has been fixed. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 06/23/03]
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Due to an editing error, "iTunes -- The "i" Doesn't Stand For Innovation," published June 18, 2003, incorrectly stated that the Red Hot Chili Peppers covered the song "Ball of Confusion." In fact, the band covered "Higher Ground." Salon regrets the error. The story has been corrected.
[Correction made 06/18/03]
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A piece by John Dean,
"Worse Than Watergate," published June 10, 2003, repeated an erroneous quote attributed to Paul Wolfowitz that originally appeared in the Guardian (click here to read that paper's correction). We have removed the offending quote from Dean's story.
[Correction made 06/11/03]
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The story "Simmons Says," published June 2, 2003,
incorrectly stated that Russell Simmons met with the mayor of New York Monday to discuss the Rockefeller drug laws. In fact, Simmons met with the governor. Salon regrets the error. The story has been corrected.
[Correction made 06/03/03]
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Due to an editing error, "What the Bush Tax Cut Could Have Bought," published May 29, 2003,
overstated the number of social programs the 10-year, $330 billion cut could
have funded. Salon regrets the error. The story has been corrected.
[Correction made 05/29/03]
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King Kaufman's column "Hockey: The New Soccer," published May 28,
incorrectly stated that NHL teams averaged 6.79 goals per game in 2002-03.
The correct figure is 5.31 goals per game. The story has been fixed. Salon
regrets the error.
[Correction made 05/28/03]
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The story "Vigilante Injustice," published May 21, failed to give proper credit for a quote by John Tanton, the founder of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. "Their [Third World] 'huddled masses' cast longing eyes on the apparent riches of the industrial West," the quote read. "The developed countries lie directly in the path of a great storm." Tanton’s statement was carried in "The Puppeteer," a 2002 investigative report by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The center's report should have been credited in the story. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 05/23/03]
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Due to an editing error in "Benny Elon's Long, Strange Trip," published May 13, 2003, tourism minister Benny Elon was twice referred to as the foreign minister. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 05/15/03]
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In "The Forbidden Truth About Jayson Blair," published May 14, 2003, Salon misstated
when
the Washington Post was forced to return a Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated
story
its reporter Janet Cooke wrote about an 8-year-old heroin addict. The year
was 1981. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 05/15/03]
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In "Unjust Executions," published May 5, 2003, it was incorrectly
reported that Texas death row inmate Phillip Tompkins was executed. In fact
his sentence was overturned and he is now serving a life sentence without
possibility of parole. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 05/06/03]
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The story "Santorum's One-Week Scandal," published May 1, 2003, contained the sentence, "Asked about the privacy issues surrounding an anti-sodomy law debated in the Supreme Court review of Bowers vs. Hardwick, Santorum said that 'if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy,' polygamy, incest and adultery, acts all 'antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.'" The case in question is actually Lawrence and Garner vs. Texas. The sentence has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 04/21/03]
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In "The Sound Bite and the Fury," published April 19, 2003, Salon cited a quote by the author James Frey that appeared in the New York Observer. Salon wrote: "The big noise began with a now-famous New York Observer interview, two full months before the book's release, in which the 33-year-old Frey wasted no time sawing off the legs of his rivals. 'I don't give a fuck what Jonathan Safran whatever-his-name [Ed note: He means Jonathan Franzen] does or what David Foster Wallace does. I don't give a fuck what any of those people do. I don't hang out with them, I'm not friends with them, I'm not part of the literati.'" In the Observer article, Frey is referring to the author Jonathan Safran Foer, not Jonathan Franzen. The sentence has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 04/21/03]
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In "The End of Civilization," published April 17, 2003, on the looting of the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, Salon incorrectly identified the location of the Archaeological Institute of America's headquarters, which are in Boston, not Milwaukee. Also, the institute's president, Jane Waldbaum, did not attend a mid-March meeting at the State Department as reported, though her group did send several letters to the department and to other government agencies and officials. Salon regrets the errors. The story has been corrected.
[Correction made 04/18/03]
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In "Your Glow Stick Could Land You in Jail," published April 16, 2003, Salon mistakenly referred to
the portion of the National AMBER Alert Act of 2003 that penalizes dance-club owners as the "Anti-Drug Proliferation Act." The correct name of the act is the "Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act." Salon also reported that in 2002 the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act "failed to pass a single congressional committee" when in fact it had failed to make it to a vote on the Senate floor. Salon regrets the errors. The story has been corrected.
[Correction made 04/16/03]
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In "The Comcast Shakedown" published April 8, 2003, Salon mistakenly reported that the Department of Justice "punished Microsoft for bundling its Internet Explorer Web browser with its Windows operating system (OS)." The sentence has been corrected to note that the DoJ "attempted to punish Microsoft." Salon regrets the error. The story has been corrected.
[Correction made 04/09/03]
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In "Hot, Sweaty and Scandalous" published April 4, 2003, Salon mistakenly reported that Balanced Body filed its lawsuit against a New York-based Pilates studio in 1999 and that litigation lasted five years. In fact, the suit was filed in 1996 and litigation lasted four years. Salon regrets the error. The story has been corrected.
[Correction made 04/04/03]
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In "Anarchy in the Streets of San Francisco" published March 20, 2003, Salon mistakenly reported that the company Clear Channel owns the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. In fact, the company only arranges performances there. Salon regrets the error. The story has been corrected.
[Correction made 03/21/03]
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Due to an editing error in the article "Murder Most Foul" (Feb. 27, 2003), a number of words were omitted from the sentence "... American women enjoy the best prenatal care in the world ..." The sentence should have read, "... American women, many of whom enjoy some of the best prenatal care in the world ..." The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 2/27/03]
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A reference to Dr. Robert Epstein in the article "Artificial Stupidity" (Feb. 26, 2003) incorrectly stated that he had passed away. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 2/27/03]
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A reference to the ozone layer in the article "Not-so-clean Cars" (Feb. 25, 2003) was incorrect. The sentence, "Translation: Driving a hydrogen-powered car juiced with fuel generated by electrolysis could actually be worse for the ozone layer than sticking with gasoline" should have referred to "global warming" instead. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 2/25/03]
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In "The Salon Interview: Arianna Huffington," published Feb. 11, 2003, the amount stock analyst Jack Grubman was fined by New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer was misstated. It was $15 million, not $10 million. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.[Correction made 02/12/03]
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An answer to a question in "Ask the pilot" (Jan. 12, 2003) included incorrect information about how emergency hatches and doors are opened on commercial airliners. The answer has been corrected.
[Correction made 01/14/03]
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The article "March of the Lucky Duckies" (Dec. 21, 2002) originally contained a quotation from Joel Friedman about the incomes of the wealthy that was reported inaccurately. The article has been corrected to read, "Their incomes are higher."
[Correction made 01/03/03]
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