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To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (35962)	8/26/2005 12:19:39 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Summer Of Our Discontent (Krugman Forced To Issue Corrections! HA!) New York Times ^ \| 8/26/05 \| Paul Krugman For the last few months there has been a running debate about the U.S. economy, more or less like this: American families: "We're not doing very well." The administration and some political commentators seem genuinely puzzled by polls showing that Americans are unhappy about the economy. After all, they point out, numbers like the growth rate of G.D.P. look pretty good. So why aren't people cheering? (snip) Corrections: In my column last Friday, I cited an inaccurate number (given by the Conyers report) for turnout in Ohio's Miami County last year: 98.5 percent. I should have checked the official state site, which reports a reasonable 72.2 percent. Also, the public editor says, rightly, that I should acknowledge initially misstating the results of the 2000 Florida election study by a media consortium led by The Miami Herald. Unlike a more definitive study by a larger consortium that included The New York Times, an analysis that showed Al Gore winning all statewide manual recounts, the earlier study showed him winning two out of three. (Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (35962)	8/26/2005 12:20:01 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

Paul Krugman's latest column contains not one but two "corrections", which I believe is a first in any columnist's piece. And it wouldn't have been possible without the bloggers who immediately called Krugman on his bogus rehashing of the 2000 election. Keep in mind this isn't a case where Krugman deserves credit for catching his own mistakes. This is after all, a man whom former "Public Editor" (Ombudsman) Daniel Okrent said “I can’t come up with an adverb sufficient to encompass his general attitude toward substantive criticism.” And keep in mind that this "correction" policy only came about due to bloggers nailing lies and distortions by Times columnists. And just how great is it that we find out he's relying on moonbats like John Conyers and his "Report" for his facts rather than official state records.