Regret the Error 2

The subject of this blog story was initial online reporting. It was focused on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's illness and death. At 8:30 p.m. the New York Times had a lead stating, "Former President Hosni Mubarak, who led Egypt for three decades until he was toppled last year in a popular uprising, was on life support at a military hospital late Tuesday after he was declared “clinically dead” by doctors, according to Egyptian officials and state news media." By 9:18 p.m. it had to be changed but the report also quoted officials. Does this mean that the same officials changed their minds or there was a second entirely different set of officials? Is it a fabrication for authenticity, is it plagiarism? This seems to be a clear error that was glazed over by a very prominent publication. Speed may get you advertising but it will not keep readers. We as journalists should slow down and check out facts multiple times before publication even if it means being a bit slower than the competition.