Last week, I mentioned an Access Hollywood report where Katie Couric mentioned that she probably would not go into the Israeli war zone for CBS, citing her kids as the main reason. But, apparently, Access didn't quite get things right. As the NY Post's Page Six reports, the program's web site took Katie's quotes out of context, from a May interview about the Iraqi bombing incident that injured CBS' Kimberly Dozier and killed two of her colleagues. When speaking to critics at the TCA press tour, Katie addressed the question of being sent into a war zone by saying it would depend on the situation. "But clearly, if it's going to serve the story, advance the story, and be helpful to the story, I would like to be there."

Access makes the correction and clarification at the top of the story on its web site.

[via Mediabistro]

Adam's post about a BBC reporter's surreal experience in Las Vegas -- home of both the CES and the Adult Entertainment Expo this week -- reminds me about another surreal thing I saw yesterday: coverage of the Adult Video News awards in... The New York Times. Thaaaat's right, kids. First Jayson Blair, then Judith Miller, now porn. Seeing a mostly-serious article about a porn awards ceremony in the Times is even weirder than seeing a review of Family Guy in The New Yorker, but not by much.

But it looks like a detail in Matt Richtel's article was not quite right, which led the Times to run in today's editions what I'm sure is one of it's most embarrassing corrections ever:

"An article yesterday about the awards ceremony for the sex-films industry included erroneous information from AVN Publications, the program organizer, on the name of one award-winning film by Vivid Entertainment. It is "The New Devil in Miss Jones," not "The Devil in Miss Jones.""

Whew. Glad they cleared that one up.

[Photo: Jim Wilson / The New York Times]