Not a good day on 43rd Street. Here’s a round-up of New York Times-related screw-ups noted around the blogosphere today:

Jacob Sullum at Hit and Run notes that the Times owes John Roberts a correction for misstating his position on abortion protesters — again. The Times reported that in the case made famous by a false ad that NARAL later yanked, Roberts was “defending the right of abortion opponents to protest outside clinics.” Sullum notes:

There’s nothing wrong with defending the First Amendment rights of abortion protesters, but in this case they went beyond protest to trespassing and physical obstruction, which were plainly prohibited by state law. Anyone who remembers the abortion clinic blockades of that period could easily get the impression from the Times that Roberts defended these illegal tactics, which was NARAL’s implication in its now-withdrawn anti-Roberts ad (which also mendaciously linked Roberts to clinic bombings). In fact, the administration’s argument was simply that the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 did not authorize a federal injunction against the protesters.

Clay Waters at Newsbusters catches Bob Herbert plagiarizing himself:

If any more proof was needed that former NBC reporter and now NYT columnist Bob Herbert was a reliable liberal, Herbert’s Thursday’s column shows he firmly believes in recycling.
In “Truth-Telling on Race? Not in Bush’s Fantasyland,” Herbert recycles a column he wrote back on May 20, 1999. Of the 16 paragraphs of Herbert’s “new” column, the middle part (nine graphs) are lifted almost verbatim from 1999.

Finally, Michelle Malkin links to this column by Jack Kelly about how the Times spun a positive story about improvements in body armor into a negative story implying the Pentagon had failed to provide the troops with adequate protection:

The interceptor ensemble [the body armor worn by our troops]