NY Times Issues Correction to Its Correction of Gary Johnson Piece

Here’s something you don’t see everyday. The New York Times had to issue a correction to a correction to to one of its pieces Thursday.

As Mediaite reported earlier, The New York Times reported about how Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson embarrassingly admitted to not knowing what the wartorn Syrian city of Aleppo is. Ironically, the Times seemed equally confused about the issue, as the piece contained a series of errors and misidentified Aleppo as the capital of the Islamic State.

“Correction: September 8, 2016: An earlier version of this article misidentified the de facto capital of the Islamic State,” the initial Times correction read. “It is Raqqa, in northern Syria, not Aleppo, the Syrian capital.”

…except the capital of Syria is actually Damascus. So yes, the Times had to correct their correction:

Correction: September 8, 2016

An earlier version of this article misidentified the de facto capital of the Islamic State. It is Raqqa, in northern Syria, not Aleppo.

Correction: September 8, 2016
An earlier version of the above correction misidentified the Syrian capital as Aleppo. It is Damascus.

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