This is not the Best Newspaper Correction Ever

Correction, New York Times, 30 December 2011

Yes, it's an amusing correction, but it's not the best ever.

The reigning champion, this year, as it has been for nearly 100 years, the Grauniad's^* Corrections and amplifications column.

The material there is extensive and voluminous, but I believe that the best correction of all time comes from their effort on 2 February 2009:

The absence of corrections yesterday was due to a technical hitch rather than any sudden onset of accuracy.

Seriously, corrections simply do not get any better than that.

^*According to the Wiki, The Guardian, formerly the Manchester Guardian in the UK. It's nicknamed the Grauniad because of its penchant for typographical errors, "The nickname The Grauniad for the paper originated with the satirical magazine Private Eye. It came about because of its reputation for frequent and sometimes unintentionally amusing typographical errors, hence the popular myth that the paper once misspelled its own name on the page one masthead as The Gaurdian, though many recall the more inventive The Grauniad."