Friday’s Chron worse than usual : Lone Star Times

Friday’s Chron worse than usual

by Matt Bramanti · 02/05/2007 4:24 am

Our beloved hometown rag has quite a few corrections of prominent errors in Friday’s paper:

•The Texas Department of Transportation will spend nearly $1.1 million to hire lobbying firms to advance its interests in Washington under a 13-month agreement that runs through the end of this year. A story on Page A1 Friday misstated the total amount.

•Supporters who each pledged to raise $30,000 for Republican Rudolph Giuliani’s presidential campaign exploratory committee were invited to a Houston dinner with the former New York mayor, with individual donors limited under the law to giving $2,100. A story on Page A1 Friday misstated the amount of contributions from each person invited to the dinner.

•Astros minor-league prospect Max Sapp bats left-handed. It was reported incorrectly on Page C1 of Friday’s editions.

•In a story on Page C9 Friday, the third-place team in District 20-5A was misidentified. Madison is the third-place team and Lamar is fourth.

•A chart on Page D1 Friday on the 2006 net incomes of some large U.S. companies, which accompanied a story on Exxon Mobil’s earnings, incorrectly labeled a column that listed the net incomes.

For those of you keeping score at home, that’s two goofs on the paper’s front page, one on the front of the sports section and one on the front of the business section.

Whoops!

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12 Responses to “Friday’s Chron worse than usual”

EricPJohnson on February 5th, 2007 at 5:57 am

Matt

Like they misstated the 1.1 million amount - I’m scared - what was the real amount? please don’t say 11 million
lecard on February 5th, 2007 at 7:54 am

The good thing hopefully now that the super bowl is over is we won’t have to hear yet another story on the color of the two head coaches. Shameless.
TheRipper on February 5th, 2007 at 8:58 am

But #2, don’t you realize it is such a compelling and pertinent story? I saw history made last night. I saw the first winning black coach in SB history. I saw the first losing black coach in SB history. I saw the first black announcer interview the first losing black coach. Amazing!!!
Rastus on February 5th, 2007 at 9:20 am

If that’s all they got wrong I’d say they were in pretty good shape. Unfortunately, I suspect otherwise, particularly in the areas of content and intent.
Righty on February 5th, 2007 at 9:38 am

Pansy 4 Peace Production’s mock anti war video using clips from Cindy Sheehan, Hillary Clinton, Jane Fonda, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon and Code Pink.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra0QkWMpFWk
Neocon on February 5th, 2007 at 9:53 am

Righty
#5

Excellent clip!
twocute64001 on February 5th, 2007 at 10:04 am

# 5 - why are so many of those pansy’s UGLY! isnt this is suppose to be something they feel passionate about. - not a smile among them - must have just feasted on persimmions and pickles
m9777 on February 5th, 2007 at 12:17 pm

The Chronicle’s new theme song is???

“Send in the Clowns”…but wait…they’ve already arrived!
Jeremy Weidenhof on February 5th, 2007 at 12:38 pm

A World-Class city needs a World-Class newspaper with a World-Class corrections section.
ThunderHawkk on February 5th, 2007 at 3:32 pm

Now that the Super Bowl is over, be sure to order the DVD from nfl.com

It will be a good chance to relive the first Super Bowl with two African-American head coaches. (Not sure if anyone was aware of that or not.)

I’m not sure if either man has ever been to Africa, or would ever want to go to Africa, or has any family in Africa, or gives one damn crapola about Africa, but nevertheless, they are forever known now as African-American coaches.
Neocon on February 5th, 2007 at 8:30 pm

Thunderhawkk

That just totally disgusts me! They are coaches, despite their skin color! When will this racism end? I saw commenters today who were black who actually commented on this! Who cares what the coaches skin color is? It doesn’t matter to me and most all of us, except those who want to denigrate America by playing the race card.
ThunderHawkk on February 5th, 2007 at 10:18 pm

I know. I knew once those teams won their games to get to the Super Bowl, we’d never hear the end of it for two whole weeks. Thank goodness that’s over. Stupid commentators.