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🗓️ 23 December 2011

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.
0:10.6	Brooke Ledstone is away this week. I'm Bob Garfield.
0:14.3	Later in this show, you'll hear a story I did from South Africa, where I described taking a trip to a town about an hour west of Cape Town.
0:22.6	However, what I meant to say was an hour north of Cape Town.
0:26.9	An hour west of Cape Town would have put me in the Atlantic Ocean.
0:32.1	We regret the error.
0:34.1	Every year about this time, we invite pointers Craig Silverman of Regret the Error to try to make
0:40.1	our mistakes seem paltry by comparison. Craig, welcome back to on the media.
0:45.4	Thank you. And that is a rather paltry, but nice to hear a corrected mistake.
0:49.5	This year's list begins with a mistake that we saw a lot, and it had to do with the death of
0:57.0	Osama bin Laden.
0:58.7	Yes, and I noticed that you slowed down when you started to say his name because that was
1:02.7	sort of the root of the error.
1:05.0	They would end up saying Obama bin Laden or, you know, Obama has been killed.
1:09.5	And it was on TV. It was on the radio it was online
1:13.6	it was in newspapers and it was really kind of relentless senator barak obama's campaign has been
1:19.2	dogged with false rumors among them that osama is a Muslim Obama rather they prefer to think of a guy
1:25.8	named or Osama bin Laden. Not Osama.
1:28.5	There, I make the mistake.
1:29.5	Barack Obama.
1:36.4	The report says that Obama, I'm sorry, excuse me, Osama bin Laden, I think Osama, unfortunate name, Obama.
1:37.9	I have a great respect for Jesse Jackson, that he was an important figure in paving
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