Another New York Times editor falsifies a report

From Drudge:

NEW YORK TIMES’ Eric Lipton today writes that President Bush was “on vacation in Texas” on August 30th but their own reporter filed a pool report that day from San Diego where POTUS giving a speech on the War on Terror and was visiting soldiers and families of the fallen. Sources tell DRUDGE that the original story filed by Lipton did not contain the sentence about Bush being on vacation and that it was added by an editor.

Drudge includes part of the actual report, filed by Times reporter Anne Kornblut who was traveling with the president, from San Diego on August 30.

The White House has asked the New York Times for a retraction. The "paper of record", eh?

UPDATE: The New York Times has modified the story now on its newyorktimes.com homepage. I couldn't find a cached version of the report but I found this version of Lipton's report at The Online Ledger of Lakeland, Florida:

But the alert did not seem to register. Even the next morning, President Bush, on vacation in Texas, was feeling relieved that New Orleans had "dodged the bullet," he later recalled. Mr. Chertoff, similarly confident, flew Tuesday to Atlanta for a briefing on avian flu. With power out from the high winds and movement limited, even news reporters in New Orleans remained unaware of the full extent of the levee breaches until Tuesday.

Here is how the same paragraph in the New York Times story reads now:

But the alert did not seem to register. Even the next morning, President Bush was feeling relieved that New Orleans had "dodged the bullet," he later recalled. Mr. Chertoff, similarly confident, flew Tuesday to Atlanta for a briefing on avian flu. With power out from the high winds and movement limited, even news reporters in New Orleans remained unaware of the full extent of the levee breaches until Tuesday.

TAGS: New York Times, Eric Lipton, President Bush, liberal bias