Guardian corrects: Bradley Manning didn't take Ellen's Oscar selfie

By: Andrew Beaujon

March 3, 2014

The Guardian

Ellen DeGeneres’ “Oscar selfie” is now the most retweeted photo ever. But that bit of history wasn’t apparently enough for The Guardian, which appended this somewhat amazing correction: to some of its Academy Awards coverage:

This article was amended on 3 March 2014. The original stated that Bradley Manning took Ellen’s selfie. In fact, it was Bradley Cooper. This has been corrected.

If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap

— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014

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Andrew Beaujon reported on the media for Poynter from 2012 to 2015. He was previously arts editor at TBD.com and managing editor of Washington City…

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