Either the New Orleans Times-Picayune forgot to replace the dummy text in this headline for their sports section, or they are taking some really commendable editorial risks in their descriptions of playoff games. [via Reddit]

Howard Kurtz has quite a correction today! It seems that Howie mistakenly believed he was interviewing a Congressman, when in fact he was speaking to the Congressman's spokesperson. Weirder: Kurtz waited more than a month to correct the story. [Updated]

"Is this the world's ugliest cat?" muses the BBC, about "Ugly Bat Boy," a cat who lives at a veterinary hospital in New Hampshire. Alas, BBC, no, Ugly Bat Boy is not the world's ugliest cat. Chase No Face is.

On Saturday, The Washington Post ran an item on a college class about HBO's The Wire. "There is nothing that makes me more optimistic about the future of the country," Wire creator David Simon reportedly said. Which is almost right.

Ever since editor Emily Smith took over, Page Six has been making lots of sloppy errors. Today the name of Susan Sarandon's youthful boyfriend, Jonathan Bricklin, was misspelled in the headline! At least it's since been corrected. This could be a sign of progress!

The New York Post's gossip column Page Six issued a correction today but it still hasn't caught two mistakes it made the day before yesterday. Is new editor Emily Smith really ready to take over the storied gossip column?

Delaware Tea Party Senate candidate (and recent college graduate) Christine O'Donnell has some important messages for America on her website: Jobs! Taxes! Terrorists! Too bad the intern who runs O'Donnell's site can't even spell her name right. (Updated)

In case there was any confusion: "This blog post originally stated that one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive. In fact, the statistic applies to black men who have sex with men."

"The Delta Gamma girls wore sailor caps, and the Alpha Epsilon Phi ho wore similar green and white ones," reported the University of Florida's paper this week. Uh, Alpha Epsilon Phi hopefuls, they meant. Gurl U must believe them. [Romenesko]

Did you read about a slideshow of ugly undersea creatures on The New York Times' website on Friday? If so, the Times is deeply sorry, and would like to offer the following clarification:

Given the dearth of high-powered minorities in the media, it should be easy to keep them straight. Not if you're the New York Post. This paragon of racial sensitivity thinks all black media people work for the same company.

The cover of yesterday's British newspaper Times & Citizen never bothered to replace the filler text for its main feature story headline. We know things are rough out there, but here's what happens when you let the copy editors go.

That "rat" that scurried in front of Obama was actually a vole.

The BBC put up a web page with the headline "What is Gordon Brown's Legacy?" But due to what we presume was an error, the page was blank. They've since apologized for accidentally satirizing the former British PM. [Atlantic]

A while back we alerted you to a study that the Daily Mail reported suggested turning on the light during a late-night trip to the bathroom causes cancer. Turns out, unsurprisingly, that this is complete bullshit! The Guardian today points out today that this has been debunked in a number of places on the Internet. The study's authors told AOL Health that:

Violent black radical Barack Hussein Obama X is learning about wind energy in Iowa, The Washington Post reports in a most unfortunate photo caption error.

The paper of record fell for two blogs' April Fools' jokes—one required a retraction and one went so far over their heads, the Times sent a publicist to quell an "inaccurate" story. Update: Prankster tells all.

Infamously error-prone Times television columnist Alessandra Stanley earned herself a double correction today.

"We accept that Ms. Margolis is not and never has been 'a hooker'," The Independent self-corrects. It gets worse: Zoe Margolis is their writer, and the mistake was a headline that begins, "I Was a Hooker."

The Nashua Telegraph quoted a White House official saying a Q-and-A with area high schoolers was "off the record." But it turned out the conversation about being "off the record" was itself "off the record," so they retracted that, too.