A story headlined “Spice ban ‘puts prisoners and homeless at risk’ as street drug goes underground” (News, last week, page 3), lost a quote from the Home Office in the editing process. A spokesman had told the Observer: “Since we introduced the Psychoactive Substances Act, we have seen use of these substances fall significantly, hundreds of retailers shut and the first offenders convicted. We have also acted by reclassifying the drugs sold as Spice as class B to give the police the powers they need to take action, including making possession illegal and delivering longer sentences for dealers.”
“Streaming, from binge to bust” (Business, last week, page 40) quoted the LA Times claiming Netflix was $20.5bn in the red. Netflix points out that it has total gross debt of $4.8bn. The $20.5bn figure had been calculated by including $15.7bn in future content contracts as debt.
A feature on trust in the mainstream media said the Daily Mail had written about Skwawkbox blogger Steven Walker. The article appeared on Mail Online only and, contrary to our piece, has not been removed from the website (“Who will tell us the truth?”, New Review, last week, page 6).
Write to Stephen Pritchard, Readers’ Editor, the Observer, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU, email observer.readers@observer.co.uk tel 020-3353 4656
