On Monday, I slammed Jennifer Steinhauer’s New York Times article on Nancy Pelosi for claiming the Democratic leader “favors alternative sentencing over prison construction, schools without prayer and death with taxes.” As I wrote, Pelosi’s objection is to organized prayer in school; students have every right to pray on their own. Similarly, she does not favor “death with taxes,” a phrase that is an absurd representation of her position on the estate tax, which affects approximately .5% of Americans who will die this year. Pelosi actually supports a plan that would reduce those affected to .3%.

The Times apparently realized that Steinhauer’s phrasing was unfair. As Bob Somerby and Media Matters point out, the print version of the article quoted above was altered online without any disclosure that it had been changed. The offending sentence now states that Pelosi “favors alternative sentencing over prison construction and opposes prayer in the schools.” And as Media Matters points out, the corrected version is also misleading. Pelosi opposes organized prayer in schools, not the act of prayer itself.