Gaffes

What a Difference a Month Makes

Last month health reporter Kevin Sack wrote: "In their heart of hearts, few in the Obama administration would have predicted late last year that they would be this well positioned by June to ...

Error-Prone Alessandra Keeps Corrections Box in Business With Cronkite Tribute

The latest correction to an Alessandra Stanley story ends on a note of exasperation: "The earlier version also misstated the date of the first moon landing; it was July 20, 1969, not July 26. And ...

Times Commits "Dateline Toe Touch" at the Episcopal Church's Anaheim Convention

Religion reporter Laurie Goodstein gets snippy when challenged on a misleading dateline in her story on the Episcopal Church's convention in Anaheim.

Cheney's "Secret Counterterrorism Program" Not So Secret After All

On Sunday the Times hinted darkly about a "secret counterterrorism program" Dick Cheney concealed from Congress. Now the details are out - and it turns out the Times reported the program (killing ...

Times "Right to Privacy" Actually All About Abortion

Does the heated issue of abortion, which involves more than one human being, really merit the protective covering of the phrase, a "right to privacy"?

Ah, So It's a Voluntary Tax!

House Democrats, seeking charitable contributions from the "wealthiest Americans" to pay for universal health care. But not really.

Woman Professor Arrested for Child Endangerment? Blame Palin

Why did a "well-educated" professor get arrested for child endangerment? Columnist Judith Warner blames...Sarah Palin? "This is why Palin - in her down-home aw-shucks posturing - is the ...

Obama's Gaffes in Moscow Almost Ignored

Obama made multiple verbal gaffes while in Moscow, including misremembering his daughter's age and where he met his wife. Times coverage? A single paragraph. Would George W. Bush have gotten the ...

Why Is Edmund Andrews Still Writing About Mortgages?

Reporter Edmund Andrews, who wrote a misleading book about his own personal mortgage crisis, writes a misleading article on a proposed new consumer protection agency that would...help people ...

Roger Cohen Says He Was Right All Along About Iranian People

See, Cohen says, I was right all along: "One benefit of the massive show of resistance to a stolen vote, and future, has been to awaken Americans to the civic vitality of Iranian society - a real ...
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