Idaho Radio News Etc.

The always excellent “Regret the Error” blog has its roundup of best/funniest/most interesting newspaper corrections of the year.  Most respectable newspapers explain the error they are correcting (our local paper just writes something generic about the error, making you go back to find out what was wrong in the first place).

There are several funny errors – but this one stands out (from the New York Times):

An article on Aug. 2 about older alumni who have been helped by university career counselors referred imprecisely to comments by a 1990 graduate of Lehigh University who lost his job in February when his company was downsized, and a correction in this space last Sunday misspelled his surname. As the article correctly noted, he is David Monson, not Munson, and he was speaking generally — not about himself — when he said that newly unemployed people sometimes mope around the house in sweatpants.

And there’s this famous set of corrections about a story on the death of CBS legend Walter Cronkite… a man known for his accuracy (also from the NY Times):

An appraisal on Saturday about Walter Cronkite’s career included a number of errors. In some copies, it misstated the date that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed and referred incorrectly to Mr. Cronkite’s coverage of D-Day. Dr. King was killed on April 4, 1968, not April 30. Mr. Cronkite covered the D-Day landing from a warplane; he did not storm the beaches. In addition, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, not July 26. “The CBS Evening News” overtook “The Huntley-Brinkley Report” on NBC in the ratings during the 1967-68 television season, not after Chet Huntley retired in 1970. A communications satellite used to relay correspondents’ reports from around the world was Telstar, not Telestar. Howard K. Smith was not one of the CBS correspondents Mr. Cronkite would turn to for reports from the field after he became anchor of “The CBS Evening News” in 1962; he left CBS before Mr. Cronkite was the anchor. Because of an editing error, the appraisal also misstated the name of the news agency for which Mr. Cronkite was Moscow bureau chief after World War II. At that time it was United Press, not United Press International.

Which was later followed by:

An appraisal on July 18 about Walter Cronkite’s career misstated the name of the ABC evening news broadcast. While the program was called “World News Tonight” when Charles Gibson became anchor in May 2006, it is now “World News With Charles Gibson,” not “World News Tonight With Charles Gibson.”

The Ontario, OR Argus-Observer is the latest newspaper that serves Idaho to cut its Monday edition. The Idaho Falls Post-Register did it earlier this year — and now the Argus-Observer is following suit.

The newspaper’s Steve Krahl strikes an optimistic tone:

By making this change, we will be able to continue providing local news coverage to our readers and online viewers and continue to be the most effective advertising source for local businesses. The Argus Observer has been the western Treasure Valley’s local newspaper for more than 100 years, and we look forward to serving our community for the next 100 years.