With lots of practice, NY Times has learned how to do retractions — almost

​NY Times skinback:

Editors’ Note:

Joe Nocera’s column on Saturday, about the indictment of the longtime New York State Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, was premised on several factual errors.

The column misidentified the person who in 2008 placed Arthur Luxenberg, a lawyer who represents people exposed to asbestos, on a panel that recommends judicial appointments. It was Mr. Silver, not Jonathan Lippman, chief judge of the State Court of Appeals.

The column also suggested that Mr. Luxenberg’s role on that panel resulted in the appointment of a judge, Sherry Klein Heitler, to lead New York City’s dedicated asbestos court. In fact, the panel had no involvement in that appointment.

Finally, the column implied that Mr. Silver rewarded the judiciary with a pay increase. While Mr. Silver’s appointee to a state commission on judicial pay did cast a deciding vote in 2011 for a pay raise, as the column noted, the appointee actually voted against an even greater pay increase favored by some members of the commission.

Otherwise? A great column.

However,

Sheldon Silver hasn’t been indicted — yet. Not only does the correction miss that blunder. It even repeats the error. It is a mistake that bears reflection at a time when the constitutional niceties are getting all too little attention.

Etc. Read the rest at the New York Sun.

​

​