2002 Corrections
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In Keith Olbermann's column "EBay Nation," an auctioned typewriter once used by advice columnist Ann Landers, the late Eppie Lederer, was said to have been used by Dear Abby. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 12/5/02]
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"Grounded", a story published on Nov. 15, incorrectly reported that attorney Barbara Olshansky of the Center for Constitutional Rights was attempting to
board a JetBlue flight when she was stopped and strip-searched earlier this
year. In fact, when she flew out of Newark, she was not taking JetBlue. The story also reported incorrectly that Green Party activist Doug Stuber, after being stopped from
taking his planned flight from Raleigh-Durham, N.C., to Hamburg last month by U.S. Secret Service agents,
was able to fly to his destination on a later flight. In fact, after
trying for two days at various airports, Stuber found he was barred from
boarding any flight and missed his business trip. The story also described Peace Action as a Roman Catholic organization. In fact, it is not affliated with any religious group. The story has
been corrected. Salon regrets the errors.
[Correction made 11/15/02]
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King
Kaufman's column on Nov. 15 referred to the owner of the Indianapolis
Colts as Robert Irsay. The owner of the Colts is Jim Irsay. The story has
been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 11/15/02]
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The text and headline for the story "Guns, lies and the Internet in South Carolina" (Nov. 1, 2002) may have left the incorrect impression that Field & Stream magazine was the publisher of the "voter education pamphlets" cited in the article. It was not. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 11/1/02]
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On Oct. 1, 2002, we published this note from the editors explaining our decision to take down the article titled "Tom White played key role in covering up Enron losses," by Jason Leopold, that we first published on Aug. 29.
[Note published 10/01/02]
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Amy Benfer's "Bringing the War Home," published Sept. 23, 2002, stated that "three of the four women murdered at Fort Bragg this summer were married to officers in the Delta Special Forces." They were actually married to noncommissioned officers in the Delta Forces. The piece also referred to some of the married soldiers' living quarters as barracks. The correct term is "base housing." The piece has been corrected. Salon regrets the errors.
[Correction made 09/24/02]
Since publishing the story "Tom White played key role in covering up Enron losses" (Aug. 29, 2002), Salon has learned that sections are identical to those in a Feb. 4, 2002 story that appeared in the Financial Times, which explained in great detail a deal between Enron Energy Services and Quaker Oats. Seven paragraphs on page 4 of Salon's story appeared first in the Financial Times story, "Enron: virtual company, virtual profits."
Jason Leopold, the freelance writer who wrote the Salon story, told Salon that he accidentally copied the passages while writing his own story, and never noticed the error during the editing of the story, or after it was published. The problem was originally brought to Salon's attention by the Financial Times.
The error has been corrected, and Salon apologizes to its readers and to the Financial Times.
In addition, a quoted e-mail from Army Secretary Tom White, from when he was a top official at Enron, was incorrect. Instead of "Close a bigger deal to hide the loss," it should have read: "Close a bigger deal. Hide the loss before the 1Q." The error has been corrected.
[Correction made 9/23/02]
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In a passage of Dr. Larry Diller's Second Opinions column it was incorrectly stated that infants should sleep on their sides to prevent SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). Doctors currently advise that infants sleep on their backs. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 09/17/02]
In David Thomson's "Turn-on" column published Sept. 12, 2002, Thomson made a plea for a distributor to pick up the film "Morvern Callar" for American distribution. In fact, it had already been picked up at the time of publication, by Cowboy Pictures in New York, and will open in mid-December 2002. The article has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 9/17/02]
The book excerpt "Nabbing David Hale" (March 2, 2000) has been updated to clarify that earlier Salon reporting was the source material for a portion of this book excerpt.
[Clarification made 9/17/02]
Leonard Cassuto's Sept. 16, 2002, story "Big trouble in the world of "Big Physics" incorrectly stated that the space shuttle Challenger's O-rings "froze stiff in the upper atmosphere" when in fact they froze on the ground. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the
error.
[Correction made 9/16/2002]
Phillip Robertson's Sept. 6, 2002, story "U.S. Airstrike Near Asadabad" incorrectly reported that a Brazilian
journalist briefly detained by U.S. forces near that Afghan city worked for
Asia Week. The reporter worked for Asia Times Online. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the
error.
[Correction made 9/11/2002]
David Appell's article "Math = beauty + truth / (really hard)," published Sept. 5, 2002, failed to give proper credit to Science Magazine writer Charles Seife for his explanation of the mathematical concepts underlying the Langlands' conjecture. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 09/09/02]
Debbi Gardiner's article "Bamboo Dick, First in Flight," published Aug. 22, 2002, incorrectly stated some technical details about the construction of Richard Pearse's airplane, and misquoted the author of a book about Pearse. Two sentences have been removed: "And by adding a flywheel he did away with the need for an engine, which saved himself considerable weight. 'From 1906 onwards this method came into general use,' writes Rodliffe." Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 09/03/02]
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King Kaufman's column "30 More
Memorable Moments," published July 31, 2002, incorrectly stated that the Atlanta Braves' 1992
pennant was their first since 1958. The Braves had won the pennant the
previous year. The story has been fixed. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 07/31/02]
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The article "Masterpiece: The James Bond Title Sequences," published July 29, 2002, mistakenly included Lois Maxwell in a list of actors who are no longer with us who've played memorable roles in Bond films. Fortunately, Lois Maxwell is very much alive. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 07/29/02]
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The article "Phil Donahue's liberal oasis," published July 18, 2002,
contained factual errors that have been corrected. Donahue, in his program
of Tuesday, July 16, quoted founding father James Madison as saying: "Those
who would sacrifice freedom for security will get neither." According to the
sixteenth edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, the correct quote is:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety." And it was Benjamin Franklin, not
Madison, who made the statement.
[Correction made 07/18/02]
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The article "L is for Lawsuit," published on July 12, 2002, contained several factual errors that have been corrected. The school referred to in the story's opening sentence is Sunrise Mountain High School, not Sunshine Mountain High School. An incorrect reference to the Illinois bar should have been to the Arizona bar. Walter Olson's name was incorrectly spelled. Salon regrets the errors.
[Correction made 7/12/02]
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King Kaufman's June 28, 2002, column "Will Yao pay
off?" incorrectly stated that the NBA draft is held in New York every
year. The story has been fixed. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 6/28/02]
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The story "Shooting Crap," published on June 13, 2002, has been corrected. The math used in the example of rolling a 3 on a throw of a six-sided die was inaccurate. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 6/13/02]
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The story "Marvel's Forgotten Heroes," published June 5, 2002, has been corrected to reflect the fact that "Spider-Man" grossed $100 million in its first three days of release, rather than three weeks, and that Jonah Goldberg writes for the National Review, not the New Republic. Salon regrets the errors.
[Correction made 06/05/02]
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Due to an editing error, "Judging Louis Freeh," published June 4, 2002, incorrectly reported that the Waco and Ruby Ridge standoffs occurred during the tenure of former FBI Director Louis Freeh. The
standoffs occurred before Freeh took office, but his administration was
criticized for its handling of the investigations. Salon regrets the error. The story has been corrected.
[Correction made 06/04/02]
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The story "Hell No, We Won't Go," published on May 30, 2002, erroneously stated that Haggai Matar
had been arrested while on a humanitarian convoy to the occupied
territories. Matar only accompanied those who were arrested to the
police station. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 05/30/02]
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Clarification: On May 1, 2002, Salon published an article, "Public Radio's private seduction," that included a rhetorical quote about the ownership and operation of WFPK. As a matter of literal fact Michele Clark neither owns nor operates WFPK. At WFPK's invitation, we compared WFPK's playlist as reported on its Web site on May 16, 2002, and Michele Clark Promotion's client list as reported on its Web site on May 16, 2002. The comparison showed that 10 of the 26 albums listed as WFPK's "Chart Toppin' Hits," 1 of 6 albums listed as "New This Week" and 8 of 27 listed as "Radio Louisville Regulars" were albums by Clark clients.
[Clarification made 5/22/02]
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The May 15 Allen Barra column on violence in hockey originally
stated that Boston's Kyle McLaren smashed his stick into Montreal
player Richard Zednick's face. In fact, McLaren hit Zednick with his
elbow. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 05/15/02]
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The article "The Israeli 'Art Student' Mystery," published on May 7, 2002, originally stated that Israel "passed information to the Soviets" that it had obtained from convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. Most accounts of the Pollard affair agree that information provided by Pollard to Israel also made its way into Soviet hands, but how they acquired it remains unknown. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 5/7/02]
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The article "The New York Sun's not-so-bright debut," published on April 25, 2002, originally contained several errors. The article stated that the Sun edition from the previous Thursday contained eight staff-written articles. In fact, nine articles were labeled as staff-written and a total of 11 articles were actually written by Sun staff (two arts page articles written by staffers were not labeled as such). Also, in a discussion of a Sun article that reported a speech by New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Salon's article originally declared that Sulzberger "never mentioned the new paper." The Sun's article explicitly stated that Sulzberger did mention the Sun.
The article also originally misspelled the name of Jim Romenesko, who maintains the Medianews Web site. Salon regrets the errors.
[Correction made 4/25/02]
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The story "Why Drug Tests Flunk," published April 22, 2002, incorrectly stated that Rosa Linke was a National Merit scholar while in high school; she was in fact a member of the National Honor Society. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 4/23/02]
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The column "Nothing Personal" headlined "They Always Bounce Back," published April 17, 2002, incorrectly stated that Benjamin Bratt and Talisa Soto were engaged; in fact by the time of publication they were already married. The column has been corrected. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 4/17/02]
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The article "What's wrong with the Oscars?," published on March 22, 2002, erroneously referred to Gil Cates as the producer of the Academy Awards telecast. It has been corrected to reflect the fact that Cates has been replaced by Laura Ziskin as this year's broadcast producer. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 3/22/02]
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The story "The coming of the über-athlete," published March 21, erroneously reported that Florence Griffith Joyner was a member of the Santa Monica Track Club. She was not. Furthermore, it was asserted that Carl Lewis now walks with a cane. While Lewis has reportedly used a cane in the past, Salon could not confirm that he currently walks with a cane. The story has been corrected. Salon regrets the errors.
[Corrections made 3/21/02]
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The article "The most feared woman on the Internet," published on March 1, 2002, contained several errors that have been corrected. There is no relationship between the NATOArts collective and either Netochka Nezvanova or the software with which she is associated, and references to such a relationship have been removed. The original article originally stated that her Web site charges American visitors a $10 tariff; the correct figure is $9.55. The statement "She calls her style 'English+.'" has been removed from the article. Salon regrets the errors.
[Corrections made 3/15/02]
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The article "Chained melodies," published on March 13, 2002, incorrectly stated that the DMCA law had been the basis for a suit brought against computer science researcher Edward Felten. The story has been corrected to note that Felten was only threatened with legal action, not actually sued.
[Change made 3/13/02]
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The article "Mozilla's revenge," published on March 12, 2002, incorrectly implied that America Online used Microsoft software for its Web servers. The sentence "They're cheaper, and they mean AOL isn't reliant on Microsoft for control of the code that runs AOL's Web servers" has been changed to read "They're cheaper, and they mean AOL isn't reliant on other companies for control of the code that runs AOL's Web servers."
[Change made 3/13/02]
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The article "Sneaking peeks at the porn clowns," published on March 7, 2002, originally contained the real names of "Ouchy the Clown" and "iKandi." The names were included as the result of a misunderstanding between the author of the article and the interviewees, and have been removed.
[Change made 3/12/02]
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The article "Terrorists Under the Bed," published on March 5, 2002, originally stated, "With the exception of al-Qaida and the group that carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, none of the groups and organizations Emerson denounces have ever carried out terrorist attacks against America." The sentence should have read "in America." The militant Shi'ite group Hezbollah staged several bombing attacks against American military personnel and civilians in Lebanon in 1983 and 1984, including attacks on the U.S. Embassy and the Marine barracks, resulting in the deaths of more than 300 Americans and the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Lebanon. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 3/6/02]
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The article "The Bush Pardons" has been modified since it was first published on Feb. 27, 2001, to include a comment from Armando Codina.
[Change made 2/27/02]
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In the Feb. 22 piece "This Time It's Personal," Salon reported that Lynne Cheney's press secretary was Margita Thompson. Thompson left that job in February to work for Richard Riordan, and was replaced by Natalie Rule. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 2/25/02]
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In the Spinsanity column "Another Bedroom Farce," it was stated that the Portland Oregonian had repeated the false claim that ex-Enron head Ken Lay had spent the night in the Clinton White House. In fact, the claim appeared in a letter to the editor to the Oregonian. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 2/22/02]
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The article "Is a U.S. bioweapons scientist behind last fall's anthrax attacks?", published Feb. 8, 2002, has been modified since its original publication to clarify scientist David Franz's views on the identity of the anthrax-attack culprit. Although Franz said he believed only a small group of people have the scientific ability to mount the attack, he has not concluded that the attacker is a U.S. bioweapons scientist. Also, the article originally stated that Franz had viewed the anthrax specimen sent to Sen. Tom Daschle through an electron microscope. Although Franz has seen the anthrax specimen, he has not seen it through an electron microscope. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 2/8/02]
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The article "Enron's human toll" incorrectly reported the period of time during which the value of Enron's stock fell by 99 percent, while employees were locked out of changing their 401K plan investments. The story originally had a line that read: "But during that same period, the stock lost 99 percent of its value as investors abandoned ship, and the freeze was looking less like procedural bureaucracy than a conspiracy to keep employees from jumping as well." The corrected story has been changed to:
"But during that same period, the stock plummeted from about $32 to $9.06 and by Nov. 29 it had dropped to .36 cents -- it had lost 99 percent of its value as investors abandoned ship, and the freeze was looking less like procedural bureaucracy than a conspiracy to keep employees from jumping as well." Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 1/23/02]
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The article "The Prime-time Smearing of Sami Al-Arian" incorrectly reported that
the Tampa Tribune is owned by the Tribune Co. The paper is owned by
Media General. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 1/19/02]