The Wildest Media Corrections Of 2020

"An earlier version of this post misstated the country Lizzo twerked in."

by Sarah Schweppe, Drusilla Moorhouse, Emerson Malone

Posted on December 27, 2020, 6:01 pm

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Correction: Tusken became embroiled in controversy after defending a fellow knitter in the community. A previous version of the post misidentified her as a friend

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Correction: An earlier version of this post misstated the country Lizzo twerked in

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In a story on December 15, 2020, about the Mexican and Brazilian presidents congratulating U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, the Associated Press erroneously reported that Biden’s first name is Jose. His name is Joe

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A previous version of this story included a less sensical version of Gelman’s comments about women feeling “seen” and “held”; a representative from the political consultancy firm SKDKnickerbocker got in touch with Jezebel to correct

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Correction: An earlier version of this review misidentified the McDonald's sandwich that was served to President Trump on a silver platter in "The Comey Rule." It was an Egg McMuffin, not a Filet-O-Fish

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Correction: An earlier version of this article described imprecisely what the actress Rachel Brosnahan saw at an afterparty. Ms. Brosnahan did not see trays of hors d’oeuvres being served at the party

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Correction: An earlier verion of this article described incorrectly the former 'American Idol' contestant Clay Aiken; he was a Season 2 finalist, he did not win the competition

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Correction: The given name of the actress who introduced the couple was misspelled. The given name of the wedding officiant was also misspelled. Also, the author of "Dracula" was incorrect. He is Bram Stoker, not Jane Austen

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saira rao @sairasameerarao

Hey @wsj, the story on Buttigieg staff leaving due to lack of inclusivity went to press w a significant editorial note in it. May want to fix it stat!
12:56 PM - 28 Jan 2020
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ED NOTE: DO NOT PUBLISH FOR OUR CORRECTIONS LIST. IS THIS TOO NICHE?

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The New York Times @nytimes

We've deleted an earlier tweet and updated a sentence in our article that implied that only "some experts" view the ingestion of household disinfectants as dangerous. To be clear, there is no debate on the danger.
04:17 PM - 24 Apr 2020
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Correction: The images in the "Spot the difference" feature in the Sunday, April 26, editions were mistakenly the same image and not in fact different. The Baltimore Sun regrets the error

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Correction: An earlier version of this article misidentified today’s day as “Wednesday”. It is Tuesday. (But, honestly, what are “days” anymore?)

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Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of the writer in an introductory paragraph. He is the famous Tom Hanks, not Tom Hankso

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Screenshot of a lengthy correction, which includes omitting two voters' connections to Republican politics in Georgia, misstating one of their ages, and misstating the last year a Democratic presidential candidate won Georgia

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Correction: Ayo Edebiri is not the showrunner of The Kominsky Method; a previous version of this post misstated her credits

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marc tracy @marcatracy

After a Times investigation found that a central figure in the "Caliphate" podcast is a fabulist, the paper is issuing a correction. Dean Baquet is sitting for an interview. And the main reporter, Rukmini Callimachi, is being reassigned. https://t.co/KndJmw9AzW
11:07 AM - 18 Dec 2020
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A correction says "The original version of this piece misspelled BuzzFeed as Buzzfeed" with the former having a capitalized F and the latter a lowercased F

Thumbnail credits: Lizzo photo by Samir Hussein / WireImage; Earth satellite image by Planet Observer / Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Sarah Schweppe is a senior copy editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
Contact Sarah Schweppe at sarah.schweppe@buzzfeed.com.
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Dru Moorhouse is the copy chief for BuzzFeed News and is based in Los Angeles.
Contact Drusilla Moorhouse at dru.moorhouse@buzzfeed.com.
Emerson Malone is a copy editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in Los Angeles.
Contact Emerson Malone at emerson.malone@buzzfeed.com.

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