Slate's mistakes for the week of Sept. 10, 2012.

Slate's Mistakes for the Week of Sept. 10, 2012

Slate's Mistakes for the Week of Sept. 10, 2012

Slate's mistakes.
Sept. 14 2012 3:15 AM

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In the Sept. 14 “TV Club,” Allison Benedikt stated that Louie runs under the Williamsburg Bridge. He runs under the Manhattan Bridge.

In a Sept. 13 "Future Tense" blog post, Will Oremus understated the size of the indirect "social contagion" effects in a study about how Facebook messages can spur people to vote. The researchers estimated that a Facebook banner ad indirectly spurred an additional 280,000 people to vote, not 220,000.

In a Sept. 13 "Interrogation," Emily Bazelon misstated that Errol Morris captured the confession of the real killer in A Thin Blue Line on camera. He captured it on tape.

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In a Sept. 13 “Moneybox,” Matthew Yglesias misidentified the name of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity conference.

In a Sept. 13 “Moneybox,” Matthew Yglesias misspelled Rahm Emanuel’s last name.

In a Sept. 12 “Brow Beat” post, June Thomas referred to “Archie Bunker’s pages from 1968.” All in the Family didn’t debut until 1971.

In a Sept. 12 "Explainer," Brian Palmer misspelled Martin Scorsese's last name.

In a Sept. 12 "Politics," John Dickerson misstated the timing of the Cairo embassy's initial statement. It was issued before protests began outside its walls.

A Sept. 7 "Audio Book Club" incorrectly stated that Sheila Heti's novel How Should a Person Be? features a novelist named Sheila Heti. In fact, the character's last name is not revealed.

In a Sept. 7 "Future Tense," David Eaves incorrectly referred to Champaign and Urbana as suburbs of Chicago. They are located about 150 miles away from Chicago.

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