2006 Crunks- the best media errors and newspaper corrections of 2006

The best newspaper corrections of the year from www.regrettheerror.com

A blunder on top of a newspaper correction from the Delaware News Journal: “An article in Sunday’s Local section on the estate sale of former Gov. Elbert Carvel quoted Olin Vanaman of Wilmington about his excitement in purchasing 35 of the governor’s decanters during the auction, including one used at Queen Elizabeth’s coronation. Vanaman said he used a slang term when describing Carvel as "a big boozer,” but he did not mean that the former governor was a heavy drinker. Vanaman refers to people who collect decanters as "boozers,” he explained, "the same as guys who collect cars are gear-heads.” No reference to drinking or the consumption of alcohol was intended in the article.”

It had to be the Oregon, right? The Oregon Health & Science University says they really just study meth, despite the Oregonian article’s headline: "State's latest meth cook: OHSU"

The Denver Post- had an arms-full of Rumsfeld already? “Memo Just Before Resigning- Donald Armsful’s classified note to the White House acknowledged the strategy was not working and suggested several options to avoid the appearance of losing.”

I’ve made that mistake myself from Newsday.com: “A picture on the cover of the Real Estate Section Friday was incorrect. The picture was not gangster Al Capone, but the actor Rod Steiger playing Capone.”

Because you can’t put a price on Rollergirl style, from The Washington Post: The Dec. 1 Style On the Go listings incorrectly described one of the events at the D.C. Rollergirls' Snow Ball tonight. The winner of a date with one of the Rollergirls will be determined by an auction, not a raffle.

From the archives, the 2005 Best Crunk: From the Denver Daily News “The Denver Daily News would like to offer a sincere apology for a typo in Wednesday's Town Talk regarding New Jersey's proposal to ban smoking in automobiles. It was not the author's intention to call New Jersey 'Jew Jersey.'”

And the all-time best ever newspaper correction from our own Kentucky home; the 2004 newspaper correction of the year from the Lexington-Herald-Leader: “It has come to the editor's attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the civil rights movement. We regret the omission.”

For many more crunks, check out Craig Silverman’s line-up at www.regrettheerror.com

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