It seems that the recent tirades against Paul Krugman and the New York Times have paid off. NRO reports today that the Times has just implemented a new corrections policy for it's editorial pages. Instead of allowing the columnists to run their own corrections and attempt to hide them either online or by couching them in the middle of their next article, the Times has began a new section separate from the editorials called "For The Record." This section contains all corrections to the factual content of the editorials, including Krugman attempting to claim, once again, that Gore actually won the 2000 election. So far, the corrections look to be good for more laughs than the columns themselves.

Op-Ed columns by Paul Krugman (Sept. 5 and 9), Maureen Dowd (Sept. 10) and Frank Rich (Sept. 1 said Michael Brown, the former FEMA director, was a college friend or college roommate of Joe Allbaugh, his predecessor. They went to different colleges and later became friends.

Personally, I can't imagine running a newspaper in which you had to run that many, and that kind of, corrections. If a columnist can't be bothered to get his facts straight, then he should be removed from his position. Of course I understand that firing Krugman and Dowd would send the liberal community into propaganda withdrawals, but that's just the chance we'd have to take.

I also wonder if this recent spate of misinformation has more to do with the Times attempt to sell their online content than was previously mentioned. I'm beginning to think that the Times was getting tired of being so mercilessly fisked by so many bloggers on a daily basis. Not that I know that for a fact, just simple speculation.

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