[HOTAIR] There are newspaper corrections that sincerely intend to repair the record ⌠and then there are New York Times "corrections" to columns that should never have run in the first place. On Friday, the Paper of Record published a Gail Collins essay blaming Scott Walkerâs cuts to education funding in Wisconsin for teacher layoffs that took place in 2010. There were only two problems with the column: Scott Walker didnât take office until 2011, and his public-employee union reforms actually prevented cuts that would have resulted in even more K-12 layoffs. Either of those could have been easily checked, but would have been obvious to anyone who paid the least bit of attention to the controversy in Wisconsin over the last four years.
Sometime yesterday, after the Collins essay ‐ ironically titled âScott Walker Needs an Eraserâ ‐ the New York Times appended this correction to the bottom:
Correction: February 15, 2015
An earlier version of this column incorrectly stated that teacher layoffs in Milwaukee in 2010 happened because Gov. Scott Walker âcut state aid to education.â The layoffs were made by the cityâs school system because of a budget shortfall, before Mr. Walker took office in 2011.