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Corrections

• October 19 -- Pro-Kerry Commentary in the Corrections Box
A Times correction goes beyond fixing the error to include pro-Kerry editorial commentary.

• May 13 -- Keeping It In the Liberal Family
There's a revealing editor's note on Thursday's corrections page regarding John Leland's Wednesday article, "73 Options for Medicare Plan Fuel Chaos, Not Prescriptions."

• April 19 -- Bush Told "Lower Manhattan" an al-Qaeda Target?
A front-page story by David Johnston and Jim Dwyer makes an erroneous claim about the Presidential Daily Briefing memo that makes the terrorist threat warning sound more specific than it was: "It said that Qaeda operatives…could be focusing on a building in Lower Manhattan as a target."

• April 7 -- "Preventable" 9-11 Puts Rice on the Spot?
David Sanger and Philip Shenon again claim Condoleezza Rice is under pressure, since the 9-11 commission thinks the WTC attacks were preventable. But commission leaders have never pinned blame on Bush or Rice. Also, the "uranium from Niger" legend returns.

• February 24 -- UPDATE: Rosenthal's Anti-Bush Quote Recycling
The Times corrects reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal's story in which she reused an anti-Bush quote--but misses a vital point: Why is the Times recycling anti-Republican quotes in the first place?

• February 3 -- Religious Wrongs at the Times
Does the Times require religious guidance?

• January 8 -- On Reagan and AIDS, Times Catches Up With Times Watch
The Times corrects a piece falsely accusing Reagan of never having mentioned AIDS--three weeks after Times Watch did.

• December 5 -- Not Dead Yet
"An obituary on this page yesterday erroneously reported the death of Katharine Sergava, a dancer and an actress who portrayed the dream-ballet version of Laurey, the heroine, in the original production of 'Oklahoma!'"

• November 17 -- Overlooking Asia
Thom Shanker reports Donald Rumsfeld had never been to Asia as Bush's defense secretary--even though Shanker covered a Rumsfeld trip to Asia last year.

• November 6 -- The Internet Gets Results
Or at least an Editors' Note in the Times.

• October 30 -- Dowdy Old Anti-War Talking Points
Columnist Maureen Dowd stumbles through the liberal anti-war litany.

• October 20 -- Brownout on Fact-Checking
Neil Lewis asserts Bush nominee Judge Janice Rogers Brown "would be the first black woman to sit on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia." That probably comes as a surprise to Judith Rogers, a black judge who currently sits on the court.

• October 17 -- The Times Corrects Itself On Niger
The Times catches up with the Washington Post, finally correcting a front-page story that conflated Niger with all of Africa. But they still have a few more to go.

• October 14 -- The Post Outclasses the Times
At least one national newspaper recognizes an "obvious mistake" when it makes one.

• October 6 -- Better Late Than Never
From the Corrections section: "An article in The Times Magazine on Sept. 22, 1974, about the movie actor Charles Bronson, who died on Aug. 30 this year, misstated his military record."

• September 22 -- An Anti-Wolfowitz Whopper
Reporter Eric Schmitt’s story on a talk by Paul Wolfowitz includes this whopper: “‘Iraq did have contacts with Al Qaeda,’ Mr. Wolfowitz insisted, momentarily silencing the audience with an accusation even President Bush now says is unsubstantiated." But Bush said last week “There's no question Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties.”

• August 20 -- This Story Rated “G” for Gaffe
Bernard Weinraub has been covering Hollywood for the Times since 1991, but his story on the PG-13 rating has a flaw a teen could pick out.

• July 25 -- The Times Catches Up With Times Watch
The Times finally corrects Chris Hedges’ July 1 story in which he falsely claims Sen. Joe McCarthy derailed the career of Stalin-supporting actor-activist Paul Robeson. As Times Watch noted on July 1: “Joe McCarthy had nothing to do with it, Hedges’ fantasies of ‘McCarthyism’ notwithstanding.”

• July 8 -- Greg Myre’s Own Mideast Road Map
The first draft of reporter Greg Myre’s article from Jerusalem falsely asserts the Middle East peace “road map” requires Israel to release Palestinian prisoners.

• June 2 -- The Wrong Gay
Sheryl Gay Stolberg’s Sunday report on gays and the White House claims: “As president, Mr. Bush has appointed several openly gay people, including James C. Hormel, the ambassador to Romania, to high-level jobs.” But she’s got the wrong gay.

• May 30 -- We’re Sure She Was
The Times says Maureen Dowd was “happy” to correct her distortion of a Bush quote.

• May 28 -- Dowd’s Dishonest Deletion, Part Deux
Maureen Dowd today quietly corrects her dishonest rendering of a Bush quote concerning the dangers of Al Qaeda. NY Daily News columnist Zev Chafets notes the Times is “looking into” Dowd’s column of May 14, in which Dowd apparently deleted a key part of a Bush quote to make him look naïve.

• May 27 -- Nothing To Bragg About
Suspended Times reporter Rick Bragg says he’s a scapegoat for Jayson Blair and is quitting the paper.

• May 21 -- Just a Few Thousand Miles Off

• May 12 -- The Times Jayson Blair Apology: Is It Enough?
“Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception” blares the front page of Sunday’s New York Times, introducing a 7,200 word examination of the paper’s chain of failures in the case of reporter Jayson Blair, who resigned from the paper after his plagiarism came to light two weeks ago. 

• May 2 -- Blair’s Snitch Project
Times reporter Jayson Blair resigns after being accused of plagiarism--the editorial desk overlooking warning signs that not all Blair’s work was “fit to print.”

• April 25 -- The Times Sets Back Women’s Rights 3 Years
In the obituary section, anyway, describing the Equal Rights Amendment as “a cause that had been on the table for 47 years, since women got the vote in 1923.”

• April 10 -- “Less Than Zero?”
An amusing error by a Times reporter in Iraq, whose story initially claimed: “The value of the Iraqi dinar has fallen 150 percent since the beginning of the war.” How is that possible?