Slate’s mistakes for the week of June 13.

Slate’s Mistakes for the Week of June 13

Slate’s Mistakes for the Week of June 13

Slate's mistakes.
June 17 2016 4:02 AM

Corrections

Slate’s mistakes.

In a June 19 Cover Story, Fred Kaplan misstated that Leon Panetta succeeded Gen. David Petraeus as CIA director. Petraeus took over for Panetta.

In a June 19 Slatest, Ben Mathis-Lilley misstated the number of lead changes in Game 7 of the NBA Finals; there were 21 lead changes, not 20.

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In a June 17 Brow Beat, Katy Waldman misstated that Maggie Smith’s poetry collection The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison was forthcoming. It came out in 2015.

In a June 17 Spot, Raoul Meye misspelled Austrian soccer player Matthias Sindelar’s first name.

In a June 17 Slatest, Ben Mathis-Lilley misspelled Washington Post reporter Chris Cillizza’s last name.

In a June 15 Slatest, Elliot Hannon misidentified Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly as a Republican. He is a Democrat.

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In a June 14 Brow Beat, Sam Adams misidentified Lady Crane as “the most promising actress in Westeros.” That character is from Essos.

Due to an editing error, a June 14 Video misidentified the science journal Science Advances as Scientific Advances.

In a June 13 Moneybox blog post, Henry Grabar misidentified Pennsylvania as a Department of Homeland Security Tier 1 urban area. It should have said Philadelphia.

In a June 13 Moneybox blog post, Jordan Weissmann misspelled Newtown, Connecticut.

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Due to a photo provider error, a photo caption in a June 13 Outward misspelled St. Anselm College.

In a June 12 Foreigners, Daniel Byman misstated the death toll in the Orlando attacks. Not including the shooter, 49 people have died, not more than 50. He also misidentified the kind of weapon Omar Mateen purchased to use in the attack. It was a semi-automatic weapon, not an automatic weapon.

In a June 9 Medical Examiner, Jerrold C. Winter misstated that the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse was based at Columbia University—it is no longer based there. Due to an editing error, the article also misquoted the report as saying “few addicts receive anything that approximates evidence-based care.” The quoted material begins with the word receive.

In a June 8 Science, Wenonah Hauter omitted the time frame in which oil and gas wells around the world create enough contaminated water to cover the entire country in a depth as thick as a penny. That amount of contaminated water is produced each year.

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