Some Serious Blunders

By Time, according to Media Matters:

In a February 7 Time.com article by Massimo Calabresi on the controversy surrounding two bloggers hired by the presidential campaign of former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC), Time.com reported that Patrick Hynes, a conservative blogger working for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), "bounced back" from an earlier controversy in which he failed to disclose his relationship to the McCain campaign. However, Time.com's claim that Hynes "bounced back" gave the false impression that the media gave significant coverage to Hynes' earlier controversy. The article was also rife with basic factual errors -- including, claiming that, in "2005, John Thune" was "the Democratic candidate for Senate in South Dakota" and that he ran against "then Senate majority leader Tom Daschle." The year was 2004 and, during that time, the Democrats, whom Daschle led in the Senate, were in the minority; Thune was -- and is -- a Republican.

Time.com has since posted a correction to the article, noting that the "original version of this story incorrectly stated that Senatorial candidate John Thune of South Dakota was a Democrat" and that "Thune was and is a Republican Senator." The correction does not address the article's incorrect claims that Thune ran against Daschle in 2005, and that Daschle was the Senate majority leader when he lost.