A correction in London’s Daily Mail notes that a Mr. Smith testified in court that he had “a dull life,” not “a dull wife.” Oops. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “A Dull Wife”
We were talking earlier about newspaper corrections.
And there’s a great book on this called Regret the Error.
It’s by Craig Silverman, and he also continues to blog about current newspaper corrections on the pointer.org website.
We’ll link to that blog because it’s really great.
One of the corrections in this book ran in the London Daily Mail.
It was a correction on a story about a court case, and I want to share it with you.
The correction went, Mr. Smith said in court, I’m terribly sorry.
I have a dull life, and I suddenly wanted to break away.
He did not say, as we reported erroneously, I have a dull wife, and suddenly I wanted to break away.
Oh, that’s a big one.
We apologize to Mr. Smith and to Mrs. Smith.
I wonder if they were still sued.
