My experiment in New York Times corrections is going well. Out of the three errors identified by me (here and here ) and FAIR, two have been corrected. First, the error FAIR caught was corrected on Sept. 12:

An article that appeared on NYTimes.com for part of the day on Sept. 5 incorrectly described President Bush’s statements about Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons programs at the time of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Mr. Bush said it was Iraq’s possession of those weapons that was the main justification for the invasion, not the possibility that the weapons could be developed.

And today one of the errors I caught was corrected:

A front-page article on Sept. 9 about President Bush’s strategy for speeches leading up to the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks paraphrased incorrectly from comments by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld about people who have criticized the way the administration has dealt with terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere. In an Aug. 29 speech, Mr. Rumsfeld said, “This is not an enemy that can be ignored, or negotiated with, or appeased.” He did not call the critics “appeasers.”

Good for the Times news division. The laggard is op-ed columnist David Brooks, who falsely stated that the earned income tax credit does not apply to single males (it does, though it is much less valuable). Memo to Gail Collins — where’s the vaunted op-ed correction policy now?