So, some further info I've gleaned this AM.
The dude making the accusation was one of Clinton's lawyers in the Paula Jones lawsuit. The same dude was one of Hillary's lawyers during the "investigation" of her email server. Brett Kabanaugh was part of Starr's team during the Clinton impeachment mess.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/latest-kavanaugh-accuser-was-hillarys-lawyer-in-clinton-impeachment/The authors of the NYT article are the authors of the book on which their NYT article was based. They knew the supposed victim stated she did not remember the incident, and they knew she had refused to be interviewed by them. The article authors didn't omit this unknowingly. They did it to stir up @#$% and to sell books.
It was after Mollie Hemingway, who had received an advance copy of the book, called out the NYT article authors' deception that the NYT edited their article and noted that an edit had been made.
IMO, I think at least some of the NYT's editorial manglers had received advance copies of the book, and at the least could have known about their article's deception.
IMO, I think this was an,
"Oh shit! We got caught!" moment, not a
"Mea Goofa!" moment. Because of how ultra-partisan and Hate-Trump the NYT has been for the past four years, and because of the NYT's prior anti-Kavanaugh deceit and prejudice.