Before she left, Michelle put up a “corrections” post in which she noted in passing,

Now, if only TPM and the fevered left-wing blogosphere would hold, say, the New York Times–has anyone seen a correction yet for the Carmen Climaco debacle?–as accountable for its errors as the rest of us.

Michelle blogged, Vented, and wrote a column about the Climaco matter, and a lot of blogs began paying attention. (Here was my take on it at Hot Air.) No thanks to the “fevered left-wing blogosphere”, the New York Times has offered a correction:

The Times should have obtained the text of the ruling of the three-judge panel before the article was published, but did not vigorously pursue the document until details of the ruling were brought to the attention of editors in late November.A picture caption with the article also misstated the facts of the ruling. Ms. Climaco was sentenced to 30 years in prison for a case that was initially thought to be an abortion but was later ruled to be a homicide; she was not given 30 years in prison for an abortion that was ruled a homicide.

Ms. Climaco is now preparing to appeal her conviction. The Times is continuing to investigate the case.

Still investigating? Do they hope to find the real killers?

Maybe they are still investigating whether or not to eliminate the position of “Public Editor”–the paper’s ombudsman, who wrote a column about this story and made it impossible for the Times’ top brass to keep ignoring it? He made himself awfully inconvenient by doing so.

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