All the Lies Fit to Retract

In the June 6, 2000, Tuesday Late Edition of the New York Times, there's a little tidbit that shouldn't be missed:

An article on Sunday about plans for protests in Detroit and in Windsor, Ontario, against an inter-American meeting being held in Windsor through today referred incorrectly to the protests last November at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. The Seattle protests were primarily peaceful. The authorities there said that any objects thrown were aimed at property, not people. No protesters were accused of throwing objects, including rocks and Molotov cocktails, at delegates or the police.

Of course this correction was prompted by the Times overwhelming sense of journalistic integrity (though one wonders where it was when the editors let this crap slip through originally). Oh, and it probably didn't hurt that there was a noisy, visible protest at the Times offices in NY today.