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What's wrong with this paragraph, from an October 22 New York Times story about Joint Chiefs head Mike Mullen?

Assessing the impact of long, repeated deployments for the ground forces in Iran and Afghanistan, he said, ?The ground forces are not broken, but they are breakable.?

Bet you saw it right away. It took the New York Times four day to correct it, though.

Correction: October 26, 2007

An article on Monday about the goals and priorities of Adm. Mike Mullen, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, misidentified a country where American troops have been serving lengthy deployments. It is Iraq, not Iran.

What took so long to correct this error? Simple -- it takes lots of staff hours trying to rationalize not correcting it, to spare the Times yet another humiliation. It took four days before they realized there was no way out of this one.

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