That might possibly fly, except for that little inconvenient fact that the correction was neither made promptly nor was it a full correction.
The New York Times habitually lies. This is just par for the course.
After all, when you're The New York Times, actual facts are such inconvenient things, huh...
“An earlier version of this editorial incorrectly stated that a link existed between political incitement and the 2011 shooting of Representative Gabby Giffords,” the Times’ correction said. “In fact, no such link was established.”