Times' fights fake corrections site

The New York Times threatned to shut down TheNationalDebate.com unless it took down a fake New York Times Columnist Corrections Page. The page was meant as a parody of the paper's Corrections page, intended to mock The New York Times for not running corrections to items in its op-ed columns. An interesting way to try to force The Times to change its policy.

After Instapundit mentioned the situation, bloggers responded by offering to mirror the site -- as a result there are now at least a dozen versions of this page floating around the Internet, if not more. Glenn Reynolds says this strikes him as "self-defeating as Fox News's suit against Al Franken" -- and he has a point. While The Times has a legitimate argument under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the net effect is that the issue has gotten far more publicity than it otherwise would have.

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