NYT: When They’re Wrong for 12 Years, They Say They’re Wrong

10mccain.span.jpgVia Gawker, who also splits the “fighting” hairs for us.

Correction: August 12, 2008
An article on Sunday about Senator John McCain‘s campaign management style described his role as a Navy pilot in Vietnam incorrectly. He flew bombing missions as an attack aircraft pilot, but he was not a “fighter pilot.” (The error has appeared in numerous other Times articles the past dozen years, most recently on April 9 and on Dec. 15, 2007.)

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