Why the NY Times is the Newspaper of Record

The Best of the Web in the Wall Street Journal shows why the New York Times has earned this august title:


'Other Than That, the Story Was Accurate

The following correction appeared Sunday in the New York Times:
An article on Jan. 16 about drilling for oil off the coast of Angola erroneously reported a story about cows falling from planes, as an example of risks in any engineering endeavor. No cows, smuggled or otherwise, ever fell from a plane into a Japanese fishing rig. The story is an urban legend, and versions of it have been reported in Scotland, Germany, Russia and other locations."

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 No, I am not making this up.