NYT Adjusts Story Due to Comment???

[walt]

Was looking at Google News awhile ago and saw a NYT story with this text

Romney Wins Mackinac Straw Poll
New York Times, United States - 1 hour ago
Ron Paul and Rudolph W. Giuliani tied for third, with almost 11 percent each. And Fred Thompson took 7 percent. Mike Huckabee got less than 3 percent of the ...

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=%22ron+paul%22&ie=UTF-8&scoring=n

Comments in the story point out this tie innaccuracy...
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/romney-wins-mackinac-straw-poll/

now the story says this...
Ron Paul had 10.8 percent and Rudolph W. Giuliani was close behind with 10.62 percent. And Fred Thompson took 7 percent.

Did they change it? If so, good job!

[American]

Very cool

[Hook]

These guys are so obvious now.

[Qiu]

What the hell were they thinking? Did they report that Gore and Bush tied in 2000? Why in the world would someone say that 2 candidates tied just because it was close?

[Zydeco]

These guys are so obvious now.

Yup

[bygone]

I really doubt the 19-year-old kids in blue t-shirts give a crap about Romney and his helmet hair’s politics.

From the comments... I lol'd.

[derdy]

We got the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to add Ron Paul to an Associated Press article that left him out on healthcare of all things!

Iif your local newspaper carries stuff from the AP, I would still contact them and point out their ommissions or inaccuracies. Its doubtfull that the AP will correct their story though.