As the criticism grows over The New York Times coverage of U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, specifically claims that the Times did not offer a full version of a video in which Blumenthal falsely claimed to have served in Vietnam, Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt says he is looking into the matter.

“I am taking a look at it,” Hoyt told me this morning, but said he did not know if it would result in a column or when. “I don't know. I am doing what you are doing.”

Presumably that means trying to find out what happend.

The Times published a lengthy investigation into Blumenthal on Monday, pegged in part on several instances in which he said he had served in Vietnam. In reality, he served in the U.S. Marine Corp. reserve during the Vietnam era, but never in the war.

The Times offered video clips of Blumenthal stating the incorrect service details. But word has since come out that one of the clips it used had not included Blumenthal stating the accurate information about his service record earlier at the same event.