What we meant to say...

By Brian Williams, Anchor and managing editor

Mistakes are awful in our business -- whether it's NBC News, US News or The New York Times -- we try mightily to avoid them, and try to cop to them when we discover them.  As long as there's a human element in journalism, mistakes will happen.  So it was with that in mind that we noticed the mother of all corrections in this morning's New York Times -- and of all things, it had to do with their coverage of the death of a man who was a stickler for detail: Walter Cronkite.