The New York Times at Work...

This was at the end of an article about the new Hunter S. Thompson biography. I found it amusing.

Correction: August 3, 2008
An article on June 29 about Hunter S. Thompson described incorrectly the context for a quotation by his widow, Anita Thompson, in which she said he was “surrounded by leeches and hanger-on-ers.” She was referring to the early 70s, around the time that Mr. Thompson covered the Ali-Frazier fight in Zaire; she did not mean at the time of his death.

Correction: August 10, 2008
An article on June 29 about Hunter S. Thompson described incorrectly the context for a quotation by his widow, Anita Thompson, in which she said he was “surrounded by leeches and hanger-on-ers.” She was referring to the early ’70s, around the time that Mr. Thompson covered Muhammad Ali’s boxing match in Zaire; she did not mean at the time of Mr. Thompson’s death. And a correction in this space last Sunday misidentified Mr. Ali’s opponent in that match. He fought George Foreman, not Joe Frazier.