best of 2006: media errors and corrections
It's that time for year-end retrospectives. There's nothing like the benefit of hindsight, realizing your crisp decisions blossomed into quagmires and clusterfucks. Regret the Error has compiled a list of the best media errors and corrections from 2006. Here's my favorite apology from London's The Sun:
On 13 February we published an article headed "Who bum it?" reporting that two Premiership footballers and a music industry figure had a "gay romp" in which a mobile phone was used as a "gay sex toy". On 16 February we published a picture of Mr Cole and his fiancee headed 'Ashley’s got a good taste in rings’.
Some readers have understood that Mr Cole was one of the two Premiership players involved in the gay sex and that Choice FM DJ, Masterstepz, was the music industry figure. We are happy to make clear that Mr Cole and Masterstepz were not involved in any such activities. We apologise to them for any distress caused and we are paying them each a sum by way of damages. The Sun wishes Ashley all the best for next Saturday's World Cup quarter-final.
The World-Cup quarter-final that England lost to Portugal. Way to go, Sun!
Ashley Cole did what with a cell phone?
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