So remember back when the NYT misquoted John Kerry's "botched joke" back in November and had to run a correction? It's now corrected online, but the original article, by Kate Zernike, quoted Kerry as making the joke exactly as it'd appeared in his prepared remarks — "Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush" — except with the omission of the word 'us.' The actual quote, as per the correction the Times originally ran on 11/3: ""You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

An article on Sunday about some of the more captivating events in the New York region in 2006 referred incorrectly to a federal investigation of Jared Paul Stern, a former contributor to the Page Six section of The New York Post whom Ronald W. Burkle, the supermarket magnate, has accused of an extortion attempt. The investigation came to light when it was reported by The Post; it was not announced by federal authorities. In addition, allegations that Mr. Stern had been caught on video demanding a $100,000 payment, as well as monthly stipends, for keeping negative accounts of Mr. Burkle from the press were made by Mr. Burkle, not by federal authorities.

• Dean Baquet wins the coveted Observer Media Mensch of the Year award. This follows hot on the heels of a bunch of other bullshit made-up media awards by organizations you've barely heard of, and comes a day in advance of our naming Chris Mohney's right testicle Gawker's Blog Ball of the Year. [NYO]
  

• The Chandler family, former owners of the Los Angeles Times, are unhappy with the way Tribune is selling itself off. [NYT]
  

• David Carr: Times, Washington Post loyalty programs "cheesy." [WWD]
  

• We think it's kind of tacky to mock a Parkinson's patient for writing a doddering, fogeyish column about the Internet. So we'll let Wonkette do it. Anyway, our guess as to the mystery journalist is Kaus. [Slate]
  

Anonymous e-mailer "123FUCKYOURSELF" writes in to set the record straight about yesterday's post about a photo of Kevin Federline posing with an unidentified woman while allegedly attending two-time Federline baby momma Shar Jackson's Thanksgiving feast:

• Jeff Zucker may take over for Bob Wright as head of NBC by the end of the year. Honestly, you get the feeling that Zucker could rip the head off a transgendered prostitute and skullfuck it in the middle of a board meeting and he'd still get promoted. [NYP]
  

We're not sure what's going on over at the Times, but they might want to get a man to Michigan pronto:

Spoke too soon about JotSpot — two sources piped up to say that the wiki company built a software platform that could very well make the company worth the $50kM Google reportedly paid for it. One of those sources is a former JotSpot employee, the other is Netscape creator Marc Andreesen.

• News: Post full of shit on circulation figures. Expect to see a similar story about the News in tomorrow's Post. [NYDN]

In case you were worried about America's Favorite Couple, we have some good news: They're still "together!" How do we know? Well, it's in Page Six!

Great NYT correction on a recent Cathy Horyn article:

The one and only correction from yesterday's Times magazine:

A recent PrivacyWatch sighting of Erik Estrada, whom we recall fondly from our youths as the shirtless hunk pointing at us seductively every time we opened our locker door, placed the former CHiPs star at a Firestone dealership in the Valley, where he bargained over the price of a set of tires for his son. A lively comments exchange followed, which included some highly contestable ratings data relating to Estrada's early, Spanish-challenged work on the Telenovela circuit. Setting the record straight on all counts today is none other than Nanette Estrada—"aka Ponch's wife," as she helpfully appends her signature line—who responds to each and every claim with, quite frankly, a far greater good-natured spirit than befits a hearsay blog item about how her husband's pinchpenny tendencies could potentially result in a teenager-stranding blowout on the 405:

Yesterday Jon Friedman wrote a column about Katie Couric that began, "Katie Couric, at first, lived up to all the hype surrounding her move from NBC's "Today" show to "The CBS Evening News." Couric's show finished first in the much-followed television ratings on her first few nights after her ballyhooed debut on Sept. 5. In a remarkably short time, even by American television standards, Couric has slipped and her program fell back to a position that CBS unhappily knows all too well — third place, trailing NBC and ABC."

Because of an editing error, an article on Saturday about Shawn Green, a right fielder for the Mets who is a source of pride to his fellow Jews, misstated the population of Jews in New York City. It is about one million, not two million.

A post earlier today about author Marisha Pessl suggested that she might only be "book hot." Having seen another photo and verified that it was not taken by Marion Ettinger, we have upgraded Ms. Pessl's condition to "TV hot." Clearly today's Times photo was unrepresentative; maybe everything looks better in black and white.

The Personal Health column in Science Times on Tuesday, about treatments and prevention of migraines, misidentified a drug sometimes used for headache relief with medications like a triptan or an opiate. It is acetaminophen, not amphetamine.

An article on Saturday about Eric N. Olsen, a substitute teacher accused of molesting in Southern California, referred incorrectly to the jurisdiction of a police spokeswoman, Diane Galindo, who said Mr. Olsen admitted molesting girls over the past three years. The jurisdiction, Ontario, is a city, not a county.