Retracto, The Correction Alpaca

Earlier this week, in a segment on his NPR video exposé, PBS’s NewsHour aired the false claim James O Keefe pleaded guilty to attempting to bug the offices of Sen. Mary Landrieu: And last year [O’Keefe] was arrested and pleaded

Last month, New York Times reporter James C. McKinley Jr. falsely reported that an FBI informant who helped to thwart a left-wing terrorist plot had actually encouraged the conspiracy. In the article “Anarchist Ties Seen in ’08 Bombing of Texas

Last week, we asked the New York Times to correct an article by James C. McKinley Jr. that falsely claimed FBI informant and BigGovernment contributor Brandon Darby “encouraged” the left-wing terrorist plot to firebomb the 2008 RNC convention on which

In the Wednesday edition of the New York Times, James C. McKinley Jr. falsely reported that an FBI informant who helped to thwart a left-wing terrorist plot had actually encouraged the conspiracy. In the article Anarchist Ties Seen in ’08

Earlier this evening several different sources reported that Wisconsin doctors had set up camp at today’s Wisconsin/Scott Walker rally/protest to issue sick notes to union teachers. [youtube zjFbMDp5Pg8 nolink] Karoli, blogging at Crooks and Liars, incorrectly identified the story as

UPDATE 2/15 1:32 PM PST: The post has been stealth-corrected. *** UPDATE 11:16 PM PST: Remarkably, this post is still not corrected. *** Earlier today, Philadelphia magazine published an article by Natalie Hope McDonald titled “Coulter Wants to Woo the

In today’s article “Planned Parenthood Video Fuels Abortion Debate,” CBS News incorrectly reports, “[Lila] Rose has worked with the organization whose undercover videos helped bring down the community organizing group Acorn.” Veritas Visuals compiled the ACORN video exposé; Ms. Rose

UPDATE: NPR published the following correction: Correction Feb. 4, 2011 I stated incorrectly that Andrew Breitbart selectively edited the Shirley Sherrod video that got her fired from the US Department of Agriculture. Instead, he was involved in promoting the out-of-context

Earlier today BigGovernment.com, BigJournalism.com, and Breitbart.TV published a shocking video investigation from Lila Rose’s pro-life organization, Live Action, showing a Planned Parenthood employee advising a “pimp” on underage sex trafficking and secret abortions for minors The post had only been

Publisher David Frum’s pettiness knows no bounds. Earlier today he falsely accused Andrew Breitbart of having sought out an invitation to a party at his house: Breitbart emphatically denied having “sought” an invitation to the party, which was for Roger

The February edition of Vanity Fair contains an article by William D. Cohan entitled, “Huffing And Puffing,” which extensively discusses the lawsuit brought against Arianna Huffington and The Huffington Post by Peter Daou and James Boyce. Daou and Boyce claim

As noted earlier from Big Journalism’s Ben Evans, AlterNet blogger Chris Hedges used a video still of a tea party crasher to prop up his narrative of fascism within the tea party. The video still originated from a video shot

Read the original correction request here.

In the New Jersey Star-Ledger editorial “Gov. Christie shouldn’t cozy up to muckraker of ‘Teachers Union Gone Wild’” published today, October 29, 2010, the editorial board falsely reported that James O’Keefe plead guilty to “tampering” with phones in the offices

James O’Keefe was back in the news this week when his “Teachers Union Gone Wild” investigation of the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) went viral and was even praised by Governor Chris Christie. But not everyone was convinced O’Keefe had

In his piece today entitled “Sarah Palin is wreaking havoc on the campaign trail, GOP sources say,” Politico’s Jonathan Martin (who was tasked with the Republican Party beat for the website for the 2008 elections) falsely claims Sarah Palin backed

In the article “Andrew Breitbart’s Video ‘Evidence’ Of Lying Congressmen Is Anything But” published August 6th at Mediaite, author Tommy Christopher makes a number of factual errors and unverifiable claims that ought to be corrected or clarified. The problematic sentences

This last Sunday on ABC’s This Week, round-table contributor Cokie Roberts said the following: There was racism that came up during the health care debate with the vilification of John Lewis at the Capitol. BigGovernment.com has posted numerous videos proving

In the Associated Press article “GOP invites blogger Breitbart to fundraiser” published yesterday, the AP states: Breitbart was behind an edited video clip of a former Department of Agriculture official that suggested Shirley Sherrod, who is black, denied a white

A good faith search of the Media Matters for America website found that the term “heavily edited” was used no less than 4 times in this article and 5 more times [captured in screen caps below the fold] to describe

In Media Matters’ piece “Warning to the media: Breitbart bites the hand that feeds him” of June 2nd, the Senior Fellows falsely claim Andrew Breitbart “lashed out” at David Shuster (via a blog post at BigJournalism.com) after Breitbart had gone

In the article “O’Keefe: ‘I’d do it again’,” published June 1st on CNN’s “Political Ticker,” it is alleged that James O’Keefe and three activist colleagues attempted to tamper with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans offices: The conservative

In an article published May 28th at CBSNews.com by Carlin DeGuerin Miller, it is twice alleged that James O’Keefe and three activist colleagues plead guilty to attempting to tamper with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans offices. First,

Over the past several months I have had the honor of being Big Journalism’s official Correction Alpaca. I’ve requested over two dozen corrections at Big Journalism and many others on Big Hollywood, Twitter, and via email. Some of the news