A New York Times news article about President Obama's intent to nominate Caroline Kennedy as ambassador to Japan reports, "Ms. Kennedy, 55, a lawyer and an author who has served as director of numerous nonprofit organizations, has never worked in government."
That is inaccurate. From a Times news article in 2004: "Caroline Kennedy, whose star power helped raise tens of millions of dollars for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's effort to remake the New York City public schools, is stepping down as chief executive of the school system's Office of Strategic Partnerships, officials said yesterday...Ms. Kennedy had planned to accept an annual salary of $90,000 but ultimately decided to take only $1 a year."
It's not true that Ms. Kennedy "has never worked in government." In fact she worked for two years for the New York City government in its school system.
The Times reporter who wrote the article, Mark Landler, finished it in time to make it to the book party for the book "This Town," so maybe he didn't have time to read it over and check it as carefully as he would have if he did not have a party to get to.