It's been far too long, but today's Times corrections column delivers:

Maybe it's not Alessandra's fault at all. Maybe it's just television that does it to you:

For those of you keeping track at home, let's run down the tortured history of the Times coverage of that Picasso sold through Costco.com.

Now that we all watched the marathon Arrested Development finale Friday night — or, far more likely, now that we all DVRed the Arrested Development finale Friday night and watched it, hungover, Saturday afternoon — we know that the two hours of Bluthiness contained, like all episodes of the show, lots of densely layered facts and details. It's the perfect opportunity, then, for the Times's talented Ms. Stanley to show off her special skill — the utter inability to get facts and details right — and, to fully appreciate that skill, we really must flash back to her Friday review of the shows and see what she got wrong.

• Thanks to her lost diary, we all get a glimpse into the frighteningly intellectual world of Lindsay Lohan.
• A Times sports reporter gets unacceptably frisky with a Rangers cheerleader; coincidentally, Times reporter Jason Diamos just happened to be covering the Rangers that night.
• Time Inc. brings the bloodshed, forthcoming layoffs can be considerably less painful thanks to union rules.
• Fake Writer James Frey adds a relatively un-fake author's note to existing and forthcoming editions of A Million Little Pieces.
• Let Fashion Week begin! Just don't feed the models, obviously.
• It was a week of sad farewells: Wendy Wasserstein, Coretta Scott King, and CNN film critic Paul Clinton.
• The New York Sun an innovative new circulation plan, whether you like it or not.
• Go ahead, call Nicky Hilton. She'll be happy to hear from you.
• Wonkette gets itself two new cocks and Gawker Media launches tech geek gossip rag Valleywag.
• Ryan Seacrest is no more or less Gay than last week.
• Anderson Cooper, however, is a little more Gay when he wears his gimp mask.
• Thought Alessandra Stanley's correction rate couldn't get any worse? Think again. And again. And again, if you can bear.

We have no idea why it took the Times a full month to correct this one, but there are few things we hate more than inaccuracies involving roller derby. From today's Times corrections column:

The first month of the year new year ended yesterday, and, in addition to giving us a fresh page on our big wall calendar, it also meant it was time to check on all our favorite New York Times cultural critics to figure out who gets to wear the "Most Inaccurate January" sash.

Jesus H. Christ. Two corrections in the same edition? Shit. Who could imagine such a thing? Certainly not us, which is why we missed the second one the first time around.

Thought you could sneak this past us, Times, by running it two and a half week's later and on a Saturday? Oh, no.

From the front page of yesterday's Arts & Leisure:

AP, via Washington Post: "[Hugh] Laurie, who masks his British accent to play the brilliant but difficult doctor in 'House,' said he had 172 people to thank. So he said he wrote their names on slips of paper and would choose three at random. He thanked the show's script supervisor, hair stylist and, finally, his agent."

A series of questions raised by last night's premiere of Fox's ridiculous and ridiculously addictive action series, 24:

We're so ashamed we missed this on Wednesday, especially because it was such a momentous event. Only 11 days into 2006, Alessandra Stanley clocked her first Times correction of the year:

In yesterday's review of South Beach, a new UPN series that debuted last night, La Stanley describes one of the show's key characters:

The lede to today's review of Emily's Reasons Why Not, a new ABC sitcom:

Yesterday we proved that Alessandra Stanley is the wrongest of all Times cultural critics, at least in 2005. Today we're bringing you a collection of her greatest corrections hits from the year.

That little bout of "truthiness" bitchiness this morning reminded us that it'd be a good time to look back at Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley's correctability in 2005. Our good pal Nexis tells us that Stanley notched 20 corrections on 137 articles this year, which means that a full 15 percent of her dispatches required correcting.*

Sunday's Week in Review, in an attempt to get all magazine-year-end-issue-y, devoted page 3 to "2005: In a Word," a zeitgeisty look at the new words (actually, in most cases, phrases) that bubbled into the vernacular this year. Only eight words merited their own essays, and only 14 more made the runner-up list. So it must have been particularly gratifying for the paper's lead television critic that she identified one of the eight big words — Stephen Colbert's "truthiness" — as significant back in October, right when it was introduced.

We actually chose not to mention this yesterday, as we're currently filled with the spirit of giving. The Times corrections column, however, has no such compunction:

So what's wrong with Alessandra Stanley? Why is the accomplished Times reporter such a error-prone disaster as TV critic? We're confused by the whole thing, so we turned to you for guidance.