The Grey Lady Shows It's Colours

An interesting “correction” in the NYT:

The Op-Ed page in some copies of Wednesday's newspaper carried an incorrect version of the below article about military recruitment. The article also briefly appeared on NYTimes.com before it was removed. The writer, an Army reserve officer, did not say, "Imagine my surprise the other day when I received orders to report to Fort Campbell, Ky., next Sunday," nor did he characterize his recent call-up to active duty as the precursor to a "surprise tour of Iraq." That language was added by an editor and was to have been removed before the article was published. Because of a production error, it was not. The Times regrets the error.

Now I know what you are thinking here: Another case of liberal bias at an Old Media stalwart. I don’t think that could be farther than the truth. This story was obviously planted by Karl Rove in a pathetic attempt to embarrass a, ahem... well respected news institution. For examples of NYT’s proven history of strong journalistic integrity, click here, here, here, here, and here.

Of course this is not nearly as clever as when CNN and Netscape posted a graphic of the President and the First Lady and titled the image assho… Well, I can’t go into detail here because me mum reads this site, but you can read all about it here.