Because the judge did not expressly state that the sentence was consecutive, the court judicial assistant did not include that term in the mittimus, the sentence order that went to the Department of Corrections. The court regrets this oversight and extends condolences to the families of Mr. Nathan Leon and Mr. Tom Clements.11th Judicial District of Colorado administrator Walter Blair • Discussing the situation around Evan Ebel, a man who shot and killed a prison chief last month. Turns out that, due to a clerical error, Ebel was let go four years early, after having four years added to his prison sentence due to a 2008 assault on a police guard. Instead, the sentence was misinterpreted as concurrent, leading to his release — and the slaying of two people. Ebel himself was killed March 21 in a shootout with police.
When the weather outside is frightful, and the driving’s not delightful, and you need to get your butt home, “Let is snow, let is snow, let is snow”!
When you’re trying to copy edit, but your editor’s like, “forget it,” and you work at a tiny hole, ”Let is snow, let is snow, let is snow”!
Took it down to avoid confusion. Sorry about that. Got ahead of ourselves.
fyeahrandomacts said: Check your title. “Obama bin Laden”
» SFB says: You know, we literally read this before we posted that article, and it must’ve had some negative subliminal effect on us. Either way, was totally unintentional, obviously, and is fixed. But we do want to apologize. It’s an obvious error to make, and we’re a small staff, but that doesn’t mean that it’s right. We’ll be more careful next time. — Ernie @ SFB
An obituary on Wednesday about the violinist Roman Totenberg repeated an error from a 1935 Times report on a concert in Washington at which Mr. Totenberg made his United States debut. He performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major — not in D Minor. (There is no such Beethoven violin concerto.) And the obituary misstated the surname of the pianist in the Alma Trio, which also included Mr. Totenberg and the cellist Gabor Rejto. He was Adolph Baller, not Bailer.In which the New York Times corrects a 77-year-old error. (ht Poynter)
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It makes it much harder, perhaps impossible, for Romney to begin to tack back to the center to appeal to the centrist voters, an absolute necessity for the fall campaign after the free-range extremism of the Republican primary. Every time Romney makes a move, or even a head-fake, it becomes an Etch-a-Sketch moment.
Now, because it’s been said out loud, everyone will be expecting the inevitable flip-flop, and will call it out the second it happens. By calling attention to it, Mitt can’t do it anymore without looking like an idiot. Bro will have to bite the bullet to go moderate. He should fire that adviser, stat.
Ooh, big error by WaPo: The Post claimed CNN called Ohio for Romney. They have not as of yet. “This is where we’re getting a bit ahead of ourselves,” John King just said on CNN, in a completely different context. Let’s apply it to the context here. What the heck!
Bad sourcing plus poor timing: Adam Jacobi took to Twitter earlier this afternoon to reveal that CBS Sports — which ran with a erroneous story that Joe Paterno had died hours before he actually did, based on a single tweet from a student Web site, originally linked to and otherwise unsourced (then retracted it, naming the source and initially refusing to take full credit for the error) — fired him over the incident. “In the end, CBS had to let me go for the Paterno story going out the way it did,” Jacobi wrote. “and I understand completely. Thanks, everyone, for reading.” The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple calls the move classy on Jacobi’s part, and an important line in the sand for CBS: “Not only does CBSSports.com put on notice its employees that multiple sourcing matters,” Wemple writes,”it puts on notice the entire industry.” While we don’t necessarily think Jacobi should’ve been fired, CBS made a good move, as it initially looked like they would let the sword fall onto Onward State. It would’ve been better if they took credit right away. (photo via Flickr user audreyjm529) source
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The sausage was being made in front of our eyes, with all of the messiness that analogy implies.Poynter’s Craig Silverman • Discussing the Gabrielle Giffords shooting one year ago today, as well as the way the media covered it on Twitter. Very notably that day, NPR tweeted that Giffords had died of a gunshot wound to the head, and a number of media outlets reported it, when she in fact hadn’t. Silverman, who runs Regret the Error for Poynter, kept a Storify from that day. It was a key moment for the real-time news movement, and a decision that once might’ve played behind closed doors is now in plain sight. It reflects the new world we live in as both news producers and news consumers — one where the errors play out in the open. source (via • follow)
That car-chase video is the default video in the template we use. Unfortunately for us, the Wi-Fi decided to konk out at the wrong time. It’s fixed now. Thanks for understanding.
UPDATE on NYT email: “The email was sent by the NYT,” a spokeswoman said. Should’ve gone to appx 300 people & went to over 8 mil. Story TK
— Amy Chozick (@amychozick) December 28, 2011
An annoying story, but a fun one, admittedly. Update: Here’s Amy’s story.
Paragraph three has a little something that may have made the publisher of the Greenville, S.C., News get a serious case of indigestion. (thanks Charles Apple)
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