“IN OUR issue of 25 April 2008 we published a quiz question that asked in which sport was Briton Robert Dee officially the world’s worst professional.
“This question was based on a false premise concerning Robert Dee’s record in International Tennis Federation tournaments.
“We would like to make it clear that far from being the world’s worst professional tennis player, Mr Dee is a hardworking and continually improving young player who has won professional tennis matches in Spain.
“We apologise to Mr Dee for any embarrassment caused by the publication of this question and we are making a payment of damages to him by way of compensation.” – Birmingham Mail (U.K.)
It's bad enough to have an error, but much worse to leave it uncorrected. The egg-on-the-face correction at least demonstrates high regard for accuracy. But then, where would "the lower case" be without boopers?
#1 Posted by Larz Neilson, CJR on Sat 18 Apr 2009 at 11:42 PM
Or even bloopers!
#2 Posted by Brent, CJR on Wed 10 Jun 2009 at 05:19 PM