What’s behind the widespread public confusion concerning the findings of the Women’s Health Initiative? Writers at Newsweek have found the culprit – in a word, themselves!

It’s early in the year, but we think we’ve found a finalist for the Best Correction of the Year 2006.

A brief piece buried inside the paper today notes that the FBI has phoned two Times reporters asking about contacts they had with sources in 2003. So what’s going on?

For the most part the story of the West Virginia mining tragedy is not a political one, so comments about press performance are, for once, not filtered through a political prism. What results is a revelation.

The Times tells us housing is cheap – until you read deeper into the article, where it becomes apparent housing is actually getting more expensive.

Apparently, in Dowd World, it’s more than okay for a multi-million dollar newscaster to be a babe, but not so good at all to be a pretty-boy or a hunk.

Finally, a backlash against all of the one-trick ponies occupying executive suites at media companies has begun to emerge.

Gretchen Morgenson, a New York Times Wall Street reporter with a Pulitzer under her belt, is one of the shrewder financial minds in the business press, so it’s always surprising to see her stumble.