That is quite an editor's note that Joe Nocera's column about Sheldon Silver was saddled with, with the note asserting that the column "was premised on several factual errors." This comes less than a year after a Times public editor column took Mr. Nocera to task for another column about which Warren Buffett said "the whole column is based on an incorrect fact — one that could have been easily checked, but wasn't."
The New York Sun has a characteristically shrewd editorial pointing out further that the Times "editor's note" compounds the error by reporting inaccurately that Mr. Silver has been indicted, when in fact that has not happened.