When the New York Times reported on the cancer surgery of its executive editor, Dean Baquet, the newspaper told readers that Mr. Baquet "had a malignant tumor removed from his kidney." It quoted Mr. Baquet describing the procedure as "minimally invasive."
Now Women's Wear Daily, in a feature article about Mr. Baquet, reports that the surgical procedure, at Lenox Hill Hospital (a detail the Times omitted) was to "remove the kidney altogether."
If the WWD account is correct, it suggests the Times gave readers an incorrect account of Mr. Baquet's operation. I suppose the malignant tumor could have been removed from the kidney once both the kidney and the tumor were outside of Mr. Baquet's body, but describing that procedure to Times readers simply as having a malignant tumor removed from the kidney would seem to me to be a little too clever. It would be nice, if the Times thought the procedure was newsworthy in the first place, to have this matter cleared up for readers in the columns of the Times itself. Maybe Mr. Baquet can post a first-person account of his medical care the same way that his predecessor Jill Abramson did.