When Mr. Buckley died, the NY Times had what I thought was one of the sloppier pieces of journalism I’d ever read. From my count, the Times had three corrections of their online obituary for Mr. Buckley before settling on a final draft in the paper the next day.

It looks like nothing has changed. Here’s their correction from today’s paper on their Charlton Heston obituary:

An obituary on April 7 and in some copies on April 6 about the actor Charlton Heston misstated the year he enlisted in the Army Air Forces, as well as other aspects of his life. He enlisted in 1942, not 1944. He served in the Aleutian Islands about two years, not three. And he and his wife, the former Lydia Clarke, an actress, spent less than one year, not several seasons, at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Theater in Asheville, N.C., which they founded after the war. (Go to Article)