A lot of blogs have picked up on the editors’ note in the New York Times addressing Nudgegate. Fewer noticed the other editors’ note the NY Times ran today. I would say this one is more important:

A front-page article yesterday reported on the awarding of billions of dollars in federal contracts to help rebuild the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. The article said many contracts had been awarded without bidding or with limited competition, and it cited two major contractors whose political connections have already raised questions among government officials about the potential for favoritism or abuse.
In naming these contractors – the Shaw Group and Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton – the article noted that they have been represented by the lobbyist Joe M. Allbaugh, President Bush’s former campaign manager and a former leader of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The article should have carried a response from Mr. Allbaugh, or restated a position he expressed in an earlier article in The Times: that he does not help any of his clients secure federal contracts, and has not done so in this case for Shaw or Kellogg.

The Times article also failed to mention, as Michelle Malkin has reported, that the Shaw Group is headed by Jim Bernhard, the current chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party. This might have been forgiven as an oversight the first time the Times left it out, earlier this month. Now it’s starting to look more deliberate.

Chris Matthews had a field day with this article yesterday, at one point getting so obnoxious that Rep. Peter King said, “The fact that it’s the New York Times means nothing to me.” I wonder if Matthews will correct the record tonight.