Good thing the NYTimes’s Kenneth Chang has a sense of humor. Or at least, to put a happy (and witty) face on a little bit of mortification. It’s all in an on line mea culpa today, which he posted as a guest blogger on the TierneyLab blog on the Times’s site. If you go to the site, do NOT miss clicking on the video link to a certain late night comment on Chang’s boronic story. Chang’s original, and now corrected story, is here.

I’ve often thought that among classic recurrent nightmares – you know, lost on campus on the way to the final exam in a course you never took, and you forgot your blue book too (my own is to be drafted again, and again, into the army to serve in Vietnam while trying to explain I already did that) is one that may be peculiar to NYTimes reporters. It revolves around the picky picky and merciless corrections that run so (magnificently, actually) on the 3rd inside front page.

-CP

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