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2015-02-17 Home Front: Politix
Gray Lady to Scott Walker: Never mind

[HOTAIR] There are newspaper corrections that sincerely intend to repair the record … and then there are New York Times "corrections" to columns that should never have run in the first place. On Friday, the Paper of Record published a Gail Collins essay blaming Scott Walker’s cuts to education funding in Wisconsin for teacher layoffs that took place in 2010. There were only two problems with the column: Scott Walker didn’t take office until 2011, and his public-employee union reforms actually prevented cuts that would have resulted in even more K-12 layoffs. Either of those could have been easily checked, but would have been obvious to anyone who paid the least bit of attention to the controversy in Wisconsin over the last four years.

Sometime yesterday, after the Collins essay ‐ ironically titled “Scott Walker Needs an Eraser” ‐ the New York Times appended this correction to the bottom:
Correction: February 15, 2015

An earlier version of this column incorrectly stated that teacher layoffs in Milwaukee in 2010 happened because Gov. Scott Walker “cut state aid to education.” The layoffs were made by the city’s school system because of a budget shortfall, before Mr. Walker took office in 2011.
Posted by Fred 2015-02-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 Oops, my bad. Sorry.
Posted by gorb 2015-02-17 01:22||   2015-02-17 01:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Typical progressive media - smear on the front page in big bold letters, and if they are caught, bury the correction, without apology
Posted by OldSpook 2015-02-17 05:49||   2015-02-17 05:49|| Front Page Top

#3 This smacks of Clintonista tactics, you don't suppose Hilda's attack dogs are at it already?
Posted by Mystic 2015-02-17 05:52||   2015-02-17 05:52|| Front Page Top

#4 It's the NYTs--the propaganda organ for the Progressives. No surprise here. If they didn't do what they do and actually did honest reporting, I'd be surprised.
Posted by JohnQC 2015-02-17 07:26||   2015-02-17 07:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Layers of brick chuckers.
Posted by swksvolFF 2015-02-17 15:36||   2015-02-17 15:36|| Front Page Top

#6 The Ministry of Truth at work.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-02-17 15:56||   2015-02-17 15:56|| Front Page Top

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