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NEW YORK – Gold prices have been rising sharply, breaching the $1,000 barrier and in recent weeks rising towards $1,200 an ounce and above. Today’s “gold bugs” argue that the price could top $2,000. But the recent price surge looks suspiciously like a bubble, with the increase only partly justified by economic fundamentals. Gold prices rise sharply only in two situations: when inflation is high and rising, gold becomes a hedge against inflation; and when there is a risk of a near depression and investors fear for the security of their bank deposits, gold becomes a safe haven. The last...

Yellow metal's boosters see no problem with recent correction NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Gold took a $40-plus beating on Friday, but the gold bugs (not for the first time) are dug in and determined. The trigger for Friday's fall, of course, was the big U.S. dollar surge following unexpectedly good (or, at least, not absolutely awful) employment data. But the gold sell-off was broad. Kitco's Gold Index indicates that (by their reckoning) only $14.90 of gold's $46.10 decline was caused by the dollar rise. The effect of this was to turn down The Privateer's famous Long Term US$ 5X3 Point-and-Figure...

We've seen small scale liquid lenses progress from concepts to commerical applications, and now Joshua Silver, a retired physics professor at Oxford University, has perfected what he calls "adaptive glasses," applying similar tech in a singular and ingenious way. Aimed at helping developing nations where glasses are expensive and doctors are often in short supply, Silver's spectacles are made of tough plastic with with silicone liquid in the lenses. When purchased, each lense will have a syringe attached to it, and the wearer will be able to adjust the amount of liquid in the lenses -- which essentially changes the...

WASHINGTON – In an Oct. 14 .. The Associated Press incorrectly quoted Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad .. national debt had climbed by more than $1 trillion while President Bush was in office. ... The national debt has risen by $4.6 trillion since Bush took office.

Shakesqueer: the Sequel by: Bethany Stotts, March 27, 2008 We got an anonymous e-mail last week that claimed that “Bethany Stotts’s article on the Shakespeare panel at MLA (1/9/08) attributed two of the panels to the wrong scholars and then misquoted them.” ....What follows, then, is both an update and an answer. A listed speaker at the MLA forum, Princeton Professor Jeffrey Nunokawa was replaced at the last moment by Professor Ellis Hanson of Cornell University. Accuracy and Academia awarded Hanson the number one slot in its ’98-’99 “Top Politically Correct” professors for his defense of teaching pedophilia in the...

Well, it's not what one might think. They have a correction on an irrelevant point in a completely discredited article -- but at least it's right at the top: A front-page article on Feb. 21 about Senator John McCain’s record on lobbying and ethics, including his role in the Keating Five case, described incorrectly the reprimand delivered to three other members of the Senate in 1991 for intervening with government regulators on behalf of Charles H. Keating Jr. The Senate Ethics Committee rebuked the three senators for improper behavior, but under a parliamentary agreement the full Senate did not censure...

Now that Mitt Romney has gracefully ended Act One of the drama in the Republican presidential primary by suspending his campaign, and since the only real drama in the Democratic presidential race is whether it will be the first female nominee or the first African-American nominee, some of the media elites have already returned to their next favorite theme of “A Recession is Coming.” My January 21, 2008 column describing this media frenzy as a rerun of the movie, “The Economy”, was short-sighted, because the mainstream media editors and writers are putting out enough material for a long-running TV series....

The LifeSiteNews.com story published Tuesday on the jailing of Pastor Lerle in Germany has been retracted after LifeSiteNews.com was informed that we were working with false information. While Pastor Lerle has in the past been jailed for anti-abortion activities his current one year imprisonment stemmed solely from holocaust denial and not from comparing abortion to the Nazi holocaust as we erroneously reported Tuesday. My sincere apologies for this serious error. John-Henry Westen Editor LifeSiteNews.com

The stock market rallied through resistance on light volume, suggesting the correction is over and stocks will move higher from here. Read the IBD article for details.

Stock market correction might continue. Beware.

Any equity selloff as large as yesterday's will produce a multitude of explanations. Among other culprits, we heard about "overbought" Chinese stocks that were due for a correction, a weak durable goods report, the Kabul explosion aimed at Vice President Dick Cheney (see below), and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan for declaring Monday that a "recession" was possible later this year. Our own "whodunit" contribution would point to the mortgage-related markets, which sold off nearly as much as stocks. This reflects the cracks appearing in the housing credit markets, especially in subprime loans but with some damage up the...

In a story that ran Aug. 11 about the partial shutdown of an oil field in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, The Associated Press, relying on information from BP PLC, erroneously reported that the eastern pipeline had not undergone a high-tech "smart pig" inspection since 1992. On Saturday, Aug. 12, the company told the AP that some of its employees were misinformed, and that the eastern pipeline, which began operating in 1977, never had the smart pig inspection. Below is a corrected version of the story: --- PRUDHOE BAY, Alaska (AP) - Federal regulators ordered BP PLC to conduct more rigorous tests...

ATTENTION EDITORS - CAPTION CORRECTION FOR SJS01 - 05 WHICH WERE TRANSMITTED AT APPROXIMATELY 1725 GMT ON AUGUST 9, 2006. THE CAPTION INCORRECTLY STATES THE CAUSE OF DEATH. CORRECTED VERSIONS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW THIS ADVISORY. WE ARE SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED. REUTERS. A Palestinian man carries the body of three year-old Raja Abu Shaban, in Gaza August 9, 2006. The three-year-old girl who had been reported killed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza on Wednesday actually died of an accident, Palestinian medical workers said on Thursday. Workers at Gaza's Shifa hospital said on August 10, 2006 that the initial...

India stock market bull run stalled as foreign funds get jitters by Penny MacRae Sun May 28, 7:00 PM ET Just over two weeks ago, Mumbai's stock market was looking unstoppable as it moved by leaps and bounds to new record highs. But now investors are licking their wounds after a brutal correction that has pulled the benchmark Sensex index down by 14 percent since May 10 amid concerns about rising world interest rates, plunging metal prices and surging fuel prices. While all Asian stockmarkets have been caught up in the worldwide turmoil triggered by a decision by the US...

The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (CIRA, S.2611), which recently passed the Senate, provides amnesty to illegal immigrants and creates a massive “guest worker” for life program. Earlier this month, The Heritage Foundation released an analysis calculating that the bill, if enacted, likely would result in 103 million immigrants obtaining legal status or entering in the U.S. legally over the next twenty years. [1] All of these individuals would have the right to permanent residence and could become citizens and vote in U.S. elections. On May 18th, the White House Office of Media Affairs issued a press release challenging the Heritage...

An article and a picture caption yesterday about the funeral of Sgt. Jose Gomez of Queens, who was killed on April 20 in Iraq, referred incorrectly to the Army representative who comforted his mother. She was a sergeant first class — an enlisted woman, not an officer. The article also misstated the name of a service medal that a general presented to Sergeant Gomez's mother. It is a Purple Heart, not a Purple Star. In some copies, a picture of the coffin being carried out of a funeral home carried an erroneous credit. The photographer was Ozier Muhammad of The...

Another Day, Another Embarrassing Intelligence-Related Correction Posted by: Clay Waters 4/14/2006 11:59:09 AM After correcting itself on the Lewis Libby leak yesterday, the Times on Friday corrects another Bush-related intelligence story by reporter Eric Lichtblau that brought much criticism from conservative bloggers like PowerLine. This is what Lichtblau falsely claimed March 29: “In a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the secretive court, known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, several former judges who served on the panel also voiced skepticism at a Senate hearing about the president's constitutional authority to order wiretapping on Americans without a court order.”...

A GRACIOUS CORRECTION OF THE JERUSALEM POST By Jerry Falwell March 1, 2006 Earlier today, reports began circulating across the globe that I have recently stated that Jews can go to heaven without being converted to Jesus Christ. This is categorically untrue. These false reports originated from a March 1 Jerusalem Post front page column which said: “An evangelical pastor and an Orthodox rabbi, both from Texas, have apparently persuaded leading Baptist preacher Jerry Falwell that Jews can get to heaven without being converted to Christianity. Televangelist John Hagee and Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg, whose Cornerstone Church and Rodfei Sholom congregations...

Correction: In the original version of this report, NEWSWEEK misquoted Falwell as referring to "assault ministry." In fact, Falwell was referring to "a salt ministry"—a reference to Matthew 5:13, where Jesus says "Ye are the salt of the earth." We regret the error.

Ooops! We all make mistakes. But some mistakes are bigger than others. Here's an example--when a newspaper prints incorrect information. Newspapers frequently run corrections and retractions. But you usually have to search for them. Well, Regret the Error lists corrections, retractions and clarifications printed in newspapers around the country. It also includes a short commentary. Sometimes the mistakes are humorous. But I [Kim Komando] don't visit the site to gloat over others' mistakes. I read it because it makes me feel a little better about some of the mistakes I've made.

GREEN RIVER, Wyo. - A quote in a fake news release that was intended as an April Fool's joke ended up in a front-page story in the Los Angeles Times. The story in Tuesday's editions of the Times noted how successful the reintroduction of wolves had been 10 years ago, but said the predators remained controversial. "In Wyoming, for example, Gov. Dave Freudenthal last April decreed that the Endangered Species Act is no longer in force and that the state 'now considers the wolf as a federal dog,' unworthy of protection," the story read. The Times printed a correction Wednesday,...

A column by a rabbi published in the Los Angeles Times falsely asserted Rev. Jerry Falwell claimed lesbian actress Ellen DeGeneres played a role in the 9-11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina because she was the host of the Emmy Awards before both events. The Times ran a correction explaining the Baptist minister "made no such claim."

Correction: Aug. 18 New Orleans Story Friday December 2, 2005 12:46 AM By ALAN SAYRE Associated Press Writer In an Aug. 18 story about crime in New Orleans, The Associated Press, relying on information from a University of New Orleans criminologist, erroneously reported that university researchers conducted an experiment in 2004 in which police fired 700 blank rounds in a New Orleans neighborhood in a single afternoon and that no one called to report the gunfire. Instead, about 900 rounds of live ammunition were fired by officers over a two-day period in December 2003 during a demonstration of a gunshot...

We all know what a biased sham the MSM has devolved into. Some outlets, like The New York Times, sink to new lows everyday, smearing conservatives while ignoring liberal stories in their own backyard - the Air America scandal, for example. (And they wonder why their subscription bases are approaching all time lows, forcing them to layoff employees). What I cant understand is that its not illegal to print news over and over again thats CLEARLY false, while printing vague "corrections" the following day. If you print a mistake, you correct it later, granted. But to print news they know...

Many people reading "The Drudge Report" would think that Harriet Miers holds very liberal positions, based on Drudge's headline, "HARRIET MIERS SUPPORTED FULL CIVIL RIGHTS FOR GAYS AND LESBIANS." They would be wrong. Harriet Miers' position apparently was basically what most conservatives believe: That there are no such civil rights as the right to marry someone of the same gender, the right to receive special legal protection in employment or houseing, or the right to commit sodomy. Thus, when asked whether she supports full civil rights for gays, she said she did -- not because she believes in the "special...

NEW YORKJust days after it ran an editors' note--under pressure from outside and within--that sort of admitted it had erred in a blast at Fox News' Gerald Rivera during the Katrina tragedy, The New York Times finally ran a full correction on Sunday, on its editorial page, for a miscue by columnist Paul Krugman, while announcing a new policy on errors on that page. As the paper noted, Krugman had three times previously admitted getting wrong part of his Aug. 19 column about media recounts of the 2000 Bush-Gore race, but critics kept pointing out that he still hadn't gotten...

I figured instead of an expensive subscription to the NYT, I would just publish the corrections every week. This way, you get the news without the bother of reading the lies, propoganda, and falsehoods so prevelant in the regular paper. Think of it; no more wondering if the story is accurate! Just read my paper that contains only their corrections! What do you guys think? Can I make any money with this idea?

Some of Time's sources are revising and extending their remarks. An excerpt: Claudia Deakins, Edmond's director of marketing and public relations, was quoted in the Time article as saying that Brown was not a manager but more like an intern. Brown was assistant to the city manager in Edmond from 1977-80. However, this morning, Deakins disputes Time's quotes attributed to her. "I spoke with two reporters from Time Magazine Thursday. I answered questions about the City of Edmond, the organizational structure and role of the city manager and his staff. My comments were in the context of the organization as...

For the last few months there has been a running debate about the U.S. economy, more or less like this: American families: "We're not doing very well." The administration and some political commentators seem genuinely puzzled by polls showing that Americans are unhappy about the economy. After all, they point out, numbers like the growth rate of G.D.P. look pretty good. So why aren't people cheering? (snip)Corrections: In my column last Friday, I cited an inaccurate number (given by the Conyers report) for turnout in Ohio's Miami County last year: 98.5 percent. I should have checked the official state site,...

Looks like the New York Times can be more accurate, when pressed. Today's edition corrects one of two errors in Friday's story discovered by Michelle Malkin, the Radio Equalizer and several other bloggers:

UPHOLDING the journalistic integrity of The New York Times requires a lot of care. Maintaining the perception of journalistic integrity can require even more care. Mistakes can become a black eye for the paper, especially when established editing procedures and safeguards are bypassed. And even a forthright correction, when crafted without careful attention to the perceptions it may create, can make things worse. Such a case occurred a little more than a week ago, when this disturbing editors' note appeared in the paper: "The Op-Ed page in some copies yesterday carried an incorrect version of an article about military recruitment....

JERUSALEM – The Associated Press yesterday retracted a story falsely claiming British Prime Minister Tony Blair blamed the London terror attacks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was the second time in the past few days the media agency falsely linked Israel to the deadly bombings. On Saturday, the AP published a story claiming Blair explained in a BBC Radio interview that to prevent future attacks against London the Israeli-Palestinian conflict needed to be resolved. According to the AP, while discussing the "very deep roots" of terrorism, Blair said "that meant boosting understanding between people of different religions, helping people in...

Dear HonestReporting Subscriber, Two days after the terrorist bombings in London, British Prime Minister Blair gave a high-profile interview on BBC Radio, which Associated Press covered in this manner: Prime Minister Tony Blair said Britain must defend against terrorism ― but must also strive to understand the underlying causes of the violence, which he identified as deprivation, lack of democracy and ongoing conflict in the Middle East."I think this type of terrorism has very deep roots," Blair said. "As well as dealing with the consequences of this ― trying to protect ourselves as much as any civil society can ―...

LONDON - In a July 9 story about Prime Minister Tony Blair's comments on overcoming global terrorism, The Associated Press erroneously reported that he spoke of easing the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Blair did not specifically mention the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in his interview with the British Broadcasting Corp

In the ninth paragraph I wrote " Of course, most people already know the answer to this. The Inquirer and other mainstream media would make an incident, where black students were terrorized by whites, a feature piece for weeks (so ingrained is this way of thinking that even when I write this sentence the Microsoft spelling and grammar check software is telling me to change “black students were terrorized by whites” to “ whites terrorized by blacks.” This is absolutely incredible that a software program would be this politically correct). The program did nothing wrong. It was merely telling to...

A headline and article summary that appeared to indicate that Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist had either retired or died was inadvertently published on washingtonpost.com and through a washingtonpost.com RSS feed on June 23...

'Post-Dispatch' Runs Lengthy Apology After Local Ministry Complains Of Errors By Joe Strupp Published: June 20, 2005 5:00 PM ET NEW YORK The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a lengthy apology to readers Sunday after a local religious ministry complained that two articles written by a staff writer contained numerous errors. The paper also says it is taking "corrective action." Post-Dispatch Managing Editor Arnie Robbins, who refused to name the reporter, said the staffer had not been fired, and declined to comment on any other disciplinary action. A review of the paper's archives by E&P reveals, however, that the reporter was...

Newsweek floundered in journalistic purgatory over the weekend, unable to confirm or completely retract the "Periscope" item from its May 9 issue that incensed rioters in Afghanistan and Pakistan; 16 people died in the melees. I wonder why Newsweek wasn't more skeptical about Quran-desecration charges. Muslims so venerate the Quran that they are outraged if anyone touches one without first washing their hands, let alone put it into a dung-hole. Compare the ubiquity of the toilet story with other kinds of Quran desecration. In my Nexis sifting I found only a handful of examples from the last 25 years: A...

A May 18 article incorrectly stated that former Army translator Erik Saar said in previous media interviews that guards at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, routinely tossed Korans on the ground. Saar has said there were "chronic problems" with the way military guards handled the Koran and failures to follow military procedures for respectfully handling the Muslim holy book when guards inspected cells, but he did not say that guards routinely tossed copies of the book.

National Public Radio has been caught in an anti-conservative smear and forced to apologize. On Tuesday, NPR issued a correction and apology to Mark Levin, author of the New York Times bestseller Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America. According to Levin's publisher, Regnery, a recent broadcast of NPR's "Day to Day" program falsely accused Levin of advocating violence against judges. Yesterday's NPR apology stated: "We have a correction [that] concerns a conversation we aired on April 5 about denunciations of the judiciary by certain conservatives in the wake of the Terry Schiavo case. After noting that...

On March 31, The Times published a correction of four errors in a March 29 article about controversies arising from fraternity hazing at Cal State Chico. At the same time, editors began a full review of the story, which was published on the front page of the California section. Based on that inquiry, which included a visit to Chico by a Times editor, the paper has concluded that the article fell far short of Times standards. Beyond the specific errors, the newspaper's inquiry found that the methods used in reporting the story were substandard. The quotations from anonymous sources and...

The Boston Globe told readers in an editor's note published Friday that portions of a story it ran on a seal hunt off Newfoundland and Labrador were fabricated by a freelance reporter who was not at the scene.

Newspaper Apologizes to Bo Jackson for Reporting He Took Steroids The Associated Press Apr 10, 2005 ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) - A newspaper being sued by former pro football and baseball star Bo Jackson apologized to him Sunday and retracted part of a story saying he used steroids. "Jackson has stated publicly he has never used steroids," the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin said on its Web site. "We retract the quote and the further statement that the speaker personally witnessed this damage to his life. We apologize to Mr. Jackson, without reservation." In a story published March 24 under sports editor...

Talking Points (Cont'd) The flap about a Washington Post report on an unsigned strategy memo in the Terri Schiavo case, which the paper said was "distributed to Republican senators," isn't going away. It turns out that The Post's news service put out an early version of the March 20 story -- published by numerous other papers -- that said the talking points, which touted the Schiavo case as a political opportunity, were "distributed to Republican senators by party leaders." GOP congressional leaders say they never saw the document, whose author remains unknown. Post reporter Mike Allen, who was unaware the...

God Is Up To Something Mary Lindow So? God Is Up To Something Fresh In This Season! ALL OF US ARE INDIVIDUALLY SOMEHOW BEING LED BY THE FATHER! ALONE...INTO QUESTS OF THE HEART. He is testing us sorely to see if we long for any power from the pull of glory, revelation, or any spiritual insights. I TRULY SEE HIM TESTING US ALL IN DEEPER REGIONS OF OUR SOULS THAN WE EVER DREAMED EXISTED. THIS THING HE IS DOING! IT IS A PRECISION OPERATION THAT "LASERS" AWAY EVERYTHING FRAUDULENT, EMPTY, AND EMBELLISHED! HE IS DRIVING US LOVINGLY TO SIMPLICITY, LOYALTY,...

Continuing their unbroken string of mistakes, missstatements, and just plain lousy, bile-choked, far-Left journalism: Corrections: For The Record (New York Times, February 26, 2005(New York Times) An article on Feb. 13 about a speech by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in which he called for stronger ties with Europe, misstated the date and place of his original reference to opponents of the administration's Iraq policy as "old Europe." It was in an appearance before foreign journalists in Washington in January 2003, not at a Munich conference in February 2003. Corrections: For the Record (New York Times, February 26, 2005) Because of...

WHITE HOUSE BLASTS WASHINGTON POST -- AGAIN Wed Feb 09 2005 17:25:59 ET For the second time in less than a week, the White House has issued a rare public demand for The WASHINGTON POST to correct high impact stories about the cost of President Bush's domestic initiatives. The POST caved last Thursday after the White House savaged reporter Jonathan Weisman's article on Social Security (“Benefit Cuts Would Offset Contributions”). Not only did the POST run a correction, but Weisman wrote an entire story correcting his earlier account. The bad blood boiled over again today when the POST led its...

LONDON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The BBC apologised on Saturday for erroneously reporting that U.S.-led and Iraqi forces may be responsible for the deaths of 60 percent of Iraqi civilians killed in conflict over the last six months. The British broadcaster said on Friday in broadcasts and a news statement that its Panorama investigative show would air a report on Sunday citing "confidential" records from Iraq's health ministry to support the contention. Iraq's health minister said the BBC misinterpreted the statistics it had received and had ignored statements from the ministry clarifying the figures. "Today, the Iraqi Ministry of Health...

Vatican, Dec. 30 (CWNews.com) - The following is a corrected version of a story that appeared on CWNews.com earlier this week, in which a crucial error in translation caused a serious misinterpretation of the news. CWNews apologizes for the error. Vatican, Dec. 28 (CWNews.com) - The Vatican newspaper has denounced a decision by Sri Lanka to reject emergency aid offered by the Israeli government. Sri Lanka declined the Israeli aid because it would have been furnished by a military team. Calling for "a radical and dramatic change of perspective" among people "too often preoccupied with making war," L'Osservatore Romano chastised...

The following is a corrected version of a story that appeared on CWNews.com earlier this week, in which a crucial error in translation caused a serious misinterpretation of the news. CWNews apologizes for the error. Vatican, Dec. 28 (CWNews.com) - The Vatican newspaper has denounced a decision by Sri Lanka to reject emergency aid offered by the Israeli government. Sri Lanka declined the Israeli aid because it would have been furnished by a military team. Calling for "a radical and dramatic change of perspective" among people "too often preoccupied with making war," L'Osservatore Romano chastised the government of the stricken...