New York Times Corrections: Is There Intelligent Life At The Grey Lady

Gregg Easterbrook from ESPN has compiled a list of New York Times corrections over the past 6 months and you really wonder how some of these writers graduated high school. 
From ESPN: New York Times Corrections on Fast Forward: In the last six months the Paper of Record has, according to its corrections page:
• Referred to the former Baltimore Colts quarterback as "Johnny United."
• Said "millions of Americans" retire each week. At that pace the entire country would be retired by 2013.
• "Misidentified the location where Norman Mailer stabbed one of his wives."
• In an article deep inside the paper, said a black hole named Sagittarius A* will swallow the entire Milky Way. A correction reported the black hole threatens only a distant gas cloud: "It is not the case that Sagittarius A* will consume everything in the galaxy." If a black hole was in fact about to devour the galaxy, shouldn't that have been on the front page?
• On the same day published four separate corrections concerning the World Series.
• Incorrectly described "Angry Birds." The correction declared, "Slingshots are used to launch birds to destroy pigs and their fortresses, not to shoot down birds." The mistake occurred in the New York Times Book Review!
• Said the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that ran aground off Tuscany, carried "half a billion gallons" of fuel. That amount is 45 times the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Correct was half a million.
• Got the wrong title for a theatrical performance that was untitled.
• "Referred imprecisely" to "an eastern box turtle that escaped from the Inwood Hill Nature Center in Manhattan. While many such turtles can be identified by 'fiery red eyes,' that is not the case for all of them. Males have fiery red eyes, but females have orange or brown eyes. The escaped turtle, Lionel, is male." Lionel the escaped turtle must have had his publicist call the Times to complain.
• Confused Snow White with Sleeping Beauty.
http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/story/_/id/7520525/time-present-tuesday-morning-quarterback-non-quarterback-non-running-back-nfl-mvp
And my favorite:  Described a research facility as located "700 miles east of the South Pole."
Makes you wonder how accurate the rest of news in the NY Times is, especially the political news.