This Is the Best Correction You’ll Read All Week


On June 1, the Sun called Marcus Stead “Britain’s biggest whinger.” Mr. Stead took issue with the article’s accuracy. The resulting correction is an instant classic.

It reads:

In a story ‘Britain’s biggest whinger’ {1 June] we stated that Marcus Stead, who appeard in the Channel 4 documentary The Complainers, ‘moans to the council every day for a year.’ Mr Stead says that, in fact, the number of complaints is closer to one or two per week. We are happy to put his position on record.

(via Neal Mann)

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