2001 Corrections
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Katharine Mieszkowski's article "The strange saga of Yahoo and WebRing," published Dec. 5, 2001, originally stated that "In the third quarter of this year, Yahoo brought in only $4.5 million through revenue sources other than advertising." The line now reads "In the third quarter of this year, Yahoo's revenue from sources other than advertising increased just three percent from the second quarter to $34 million. Salon has corrected the article and regrets the error.
[Correction made 12/06/01]
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Douglas Cruickshank's article "LBJ: The White (House) Album," published Nov. 29, 2001, originally stated that the Pentagon has confirmed that the Tonkin Gulf incident of Aug. 1964 was based on a false report. In fact, the Pentagon has never made such a confirmation, though the report is widely considered to be false, and in a 1995 meeting with Robert McNamara retired Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap categorically
denied that North Vietnam attacked U.S. destroyers on Aug. 4, 1964. Salon has corrected the article and regrets the error.
[Correction made 11/30/01]
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Wagner James Au's story Xbox Squared stated that "Compared to the Xbox, Nintendo's new console offers as much computing power..." That sentence has been amended to read: "Compared to the Xbox, Nintendo's new console offers almost as much computing power..." Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 11/16/01]
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King Kaufman's story "Maintaining in the Midwest" on Nov. 13 stated that the Kansas City Star reported that the postal center where anthrax was found handles the vast majority of mail that ends up in Kansas City area mailboxes. The center does not handle mail, and the Star did not report that it does. The story has been corrected, and Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 11/13/01]
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Douglas Cruickshank's article "Why Do You Think They
Called Them 'Best Boys'?" published Nov. 8, 2001, originally stated
that sometimes director George Cukor "would actually play the scene
himself first, costumes and all." In fact, it was director Edmund
Goulding who would play the scenes himself. Elsewhere, the article
states that Kevin Brownlow's books "The Parade's Gone By" and
"Hollywood: The Pioneers" are not mentioned by name in "Behind the
Screen." The titles do not appear in the main text, but they are in fact
included in the bibliography. Salon has made corrections in the article
and regrets the errors.
[Correction made 11/09/01]
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Rachel Scheier's article, "Gerson Borrero, Freestyle Ranter," published
Oct. 30, 2001, originally stated that El Diario La Prensa is the largest
Spanish language newspaper in New York. In fact, Hoy is now New York's
largest circulation Spanish language newspaper. Salon has made a correction in the
article and regrets the error.
[Correction made 10/31/01]
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Damien Cave's article, "The spam spoils of war," published Oct. 17, 2001, originally contained a statement attributed to Tom Geller, executive director of the SpamCon Foundation. The original wording of the article may have left the impression this statement was broader than intended. Salon has removed the statement and regrets any misunderstanding.
[Change made 10/22/01]
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"The Enemy With a Thousand Faces," published Sept 13, 2001, originally stated that the Taliban received $43 million from the United States to reward it for condemning opium growing as anti-Islamic. In fact, the United States aid did not go to the Taliban but to international aid organizations and NGOs.
[Correction made 10/03/01]
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In "Islam's flawed spokesmen," Salon wrote that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called the conviction of Sheik Omar Abdul-Rahman, whom U.S. authorities deemed the ringleader of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, a "hate crime." In 1996 CAIR published a book, "The Price of Ignorance" about Muslim civil rights in the U.S. That book listed "incidents of anti-Muslim bias and violence," in which CAIR included the trial of Abdul-Rahman, which ended with his conviction for conspiring to blow up the Lincoln Tunnel and other New York City landmarks. CAIR listed the trial on that list of "incidents of bias and violence" because Abdul-Rahman's lawyers said that his trial had been "far from free and fair." But the group did not use the term "hate crime." Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 09/28/01]
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The article "Down for the Count," published in Salon People on Sept. 19, 2001, left the impression that the author, Phil Busse, had personally witnessed the prison boxing match the article describes. In fact, Busse was not present, and compiled his account drawing on interviews with participants and on material previously published in the Oregonian. The article should have made clear that Busse did not witness the events described, and should have credited the Oregonian. Salon has removed this article from its site and regrets the errors.
[Correction made 09/27/01]
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On July 12, 2001, we published a Note from the Editors regarding errors in the article "Can the Net Be Trusted?", originally published on June 19, 2001.
[Correction made 07/12/01]
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In his last column, David Horowitz wrote that 10 percent of the female sailors on a ship named the Aurora became pregnant en route to the Persian Gulf during Desert Storm. The ship was actually the Acadia, and 36 women were sent home because of pregnancy at some time during its seven-month stint in the Gulf, not en route to the conflict. The Navy has long disputed the 10 percent figure, explaining that 14 of the women were pregnant when they were assigned to the repair ship, and that 450 women, not 360 as widely reported, served on the Acadia during its seven months in the Gulf. The 22 pregnancies that actually began while the ship was on duty came to 5 percent, according to the Washington Times. Salon regrets the errors.
[Correction made 06/28/01]
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One sentence in the article "Assimilating the Web," by Scott Rosenberg, has been edited since its original publication to remove language that disparaged the author of a study of Web traffic patterns.
[Change made 06/27/01]
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Clarification: As initially published, Charles Taylor's book review "Evil Takes the Stand" made reference to statements by British historian John Fox without citing their source and context. Fox has since informed us that his statements were originally made in a book review that appeared in the Independent. The article has been updated to reflect this information. Salon regrets the error.
[Clarification made 05/31/01]
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In the Salon story "Tough love for Africa," it was originally stated
that drug companies had agreed to allow AIDS drugs to be produced at cost
for distribution in South Africa. This is incorrect. Some companies
have privately made deals to offer heavy discounts on their drugs,
but they have not agreed to allow production of generic versions of the drugs.
Also, the story's dateline was incorrect and has
been corrected to say Kampala, Uganda. And an AIDS center at which
Colin Powell talked to patient Agnes Nyamayarwe was incorrectly
identified as being in Kampala; it is in fact in Nairobi, Kenya. Salon regrets these errors.
[Corrections made 05/29/01]
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In the Salon story "The Triumph of 'Multicultural' Thugs," the Cornell University professor mentioned is
named Jeremy Rabkin, not Jonathan Rabkin, as originally written. The book
"It Can't Happen Here" was written by Sinclair Lewis, not Upton Sinclair.
Salon regrets these errors.
[Correction made 05/22/01]
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Clarification: On Feb. 23, 2001, Salon published a news story,
"Losing Faith in PayPal." The article addressed fraudulent PayPal accounts and referenced gangsters. It also included the opinions of PayPal's CEO concerning e-gold, Ltd. Based on Salon's information, e-gold is not engaged in any criminal conduct or other wrongful conduct, nor is it the target of gangsters. E-gold reports it has security provisions that are sufficient to address all possible cases of fraud.
[Clarification made 05/18/01]
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The Salon Business & Technology article "Better dead than fat" included an incorrect statement regarding the status of the drug Zyban. Zyban has not been recalled. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 05/16/01]
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In the Salon Business & Technology article "The pro-business nature boy" the sentence "With President Bush backpedaling on his promise to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, allowing more arsenic in our drinking water and eager to let oil companies drill in Alaska, many environmentalists act as though Armageddon is just around the corner" was changed to correctly reflect President Bush's policy on arsenic in drinking water. The new sentence reads "With President Bush backpedaling on his promise to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, refusing to order cuts in the allowable concentration of arsenic in our drinking water and eager to let oil companies drill in Alaska, many environmentalists act as though Armageddon is just around the corner." Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 04/30/01]
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In the Salon Business & Technology article "The Internet's Public Enema No. 1" it was incorrectly stated that "Soylent," founder of Rotten.com, answered charges by Scotland Yard and the FBI relating to photos posted on Soylent's Web site "somewhat feebly, by arguing that the photo is a doctored image created by a Chinese artist." The words "somewhat feebly" did not accurately reflect the details of the case or the views of the author. Salon regrets the error.
[Correction made 03/05/01]