The Top 13 Retractions Printed by the NY Times in 1998

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13 "Correction: The cookie recipe in question costs $350, not
$250 as previously reported."

12 "Earlier this year, the Times mistakenly reported that
software magnate Bill Gates is a money-hungry, maladapted,
socially awkward loser. He is, in fact, a bloodsucking
cob-nobbler. The Times regrets the error."

11 "We wish to apologize for calling the former Australian
Prime minister, Paul Keating, the lowest slime-ball in the
country. We meant in THEIR country."

10 "Due to a typographical error yesterday, we mistakenly
printed the entire Wall Street Journal under our banner. It
should have been the Washington Post. Sorry."

9 "Okay, so it was a blue dress, not a red skirt. Get off our
backs already!"

8 "In Thursday's edition of the Times, we erroneously reported
the stories of five people who experienced bad luck as a result
of not forwarding an e-mail message..."

7 "This mistake will never happen again. We apologize to the
Top 5 subscribers, contributors and the list moderator, Chris
Whitewater."

6 "Recently, pop singer George Michael was caught masturbating
in a public restroom yesterday. He was not, as reported in this
newspaper, actually ******* a chicken."

5 "It has come to the attention of the Times that disk jockey
Fred LeFebvre of KISS-FM in Toledo was not actually the
recipient of a MacArthur 'Genius Grant.'"

4 "Evidently, there are no Klingons on Uranus after all. Sorry
for the confusion."

3 "Our article describing O.J. Simpson as 'slashing out' over
the prospect of losing his ******** contained a regrettable
typo..."

2 "As it turns out, the Banana Republic dictatorship is
actually just a clothing store."

and Top5's Number 1 Other Retraction Printed by the NY Times in
1998...

1 "Miss Lewinsky did not give the President a snow job, as
reported in some editions yesterday."
 

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