The New York Times Just Issued the Best Correction You'll Read All Week

[n2doc]

On Tuesday, the New York Times ran the following correction on a story about Dick Cheney telling House Republicans to "embrace a strong military and reject a rising isolationism in his party":

Correction: September 9, 2014

An earlier version of a summary with this article misstated the former title of Dick Cheney. He was vice president, not president.


http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/09/correction-week-president-cheney

[riversedge]

1. Freudian slip on 1st time around

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Has to be..

I cannot imagine anyone making that kind of mistake.

[Autumn]

2. I have been seeing Duers being accused of embracing isolationism because they oppose

this action now I see where that talking point came from. Very revealing.

rec and bookmarked

[BrotherIvan]

12. ^^^^^^

[Scuba]

14. +1,000

[marmar]

3. Perfect. Unintentional truth.

[rhett o rick]

4. Poor Georgie can't get no respect. His tomb will read, "Barbara said I was the real President."

Next comes Jeb, the smarter son.

[Fearless]

17. No thanks.

[spanone]

5. why correct a truth?

[Iliyah]

7. They wrote it right

[jwirr]

8. That is funny. We have always suspected it.

[Jack Rabbit]

9. Actually, that's not correct, either

He and Bush were usurpers, not legitimately elected officials.

In Cheney's case, I like to refer to his tenure in the Bush Junta as filling the role of "Vice Premier."

[Iwillnevergiveup]

10. The NYT

more or less got it right the first time.

[libodem]

11. Just read this

Glad it here, too.

[lpbk2713]

13. A mere technicality.

[rocktivity]

15. Candidate for this year's "You Call This NEWS?" Award

Special Achievement Category!!!

The Palins brawl at a house party, Ted Cruz gets booed offstage by a Christian group, and now this? You're not supposed to have fun on 9/11!


rocktivity

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

16. is Judith Miller running the paper?