Corrections and apologies
An end to the Winterval myth?
From the Daily Mail’s corrections and clarifications column: We stated in an article on 26 September that Christmas has been renamed in many places Winterval. Winterval was the collective name for a season of public events, both religious and… Read more
Filed under Media and journalism
Robbed of accuracy
From today’s Daily Mail corrections column: An article on 27 June reported that Miss Rachel Cowles, who believes she had nearly been abducted by Milly Dowler killer Levi Bellfield, had accused police of robbing her of justice. In fact Miss… Read more
Filed under Media and journalism
Mail on Sunday ‘knows little about Britain’s flag’
In April, the Mail on Sunday were bristling with patriotic rage over the company that was chosen to produce some of our Olympic flags: They said: It will be the iconic image of the 2012 London Olympics: the Union Jack soaring as British… Read more
Filed under Media and journalism
Sorry we called you an ‘HIV monster’
Here’s another complaint made against the Daily Mail which was resolved through the PCC: The National AIDS Trust and the Terrence Higgins Trust complained, on behalf of Nkosinati Mabanda, to the Press Complaints Commission that the assertion in… Read more
Filed under Media and journalism
Sorry if a ‘contrary impression’ was given
The following is a clarification and apology that was recently published on the Daily Mail website: An article on 24 June reported that Andy Coles, the former commander of submarine HMS Turbulent, had been accused by a fisherman’s son of the… Read more
Filed under Media and journalism
Sorry we said you had sexsomnia
The PCC’s website currently lists no less than 11 resolved complaints from Stephen Davies and Eleanor Parker. According to the complaints, each paper had wrongly reported that Mr Davies, who was standing trial for rape, had defended himself by… Read more
Filed under Media and journalism
Daily Telegraph set straight over AV claims
The PCC has published details of a complaint made by Electoral Reform Services against the Daily Telegraph: Electoral Reform Services Ltd complained to the Press Complaints Commission through Lewis Silkin solicitors of London that an article… Read more
Filed under Media and journalism
Apology on front page of the Sun
Yes, you read that correctly. The front page of today’s Sun features an apology… but it’s not the Sun that’s doing the apologising: It refers to the story the Guardian decided to splash with on Tuesday: Here’s the full text of the… Read more
Filed under Media and journalism