The media's haste to churn out fuel for the anti-Trump crowd's desired narratives and feed another outrage cycle has led them into some embarrassing predicaments. One example of that happened when the HuffPost tried to cause an anti-Hegseth freakout by reporting the following: "The Pentagon today invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics."
Nowhere, either in the reporter's posts or the story itself, was it mentioned that Catholics don't celebrate Mass on Good Friday.
The dishonesty is off the charts, and it's not just the HuffPost.
Another example came this week by way of a New York Times headline for which they ended up issuing a correction:
Does the @nytimes know what NATO stands for? pic.twitter.com/wvD1WxPOnN
— Sasha Issenberg (@sissenberg) April 3, 2026
There are corrections and there are
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) April 3, 2026
CORRECTIONS. pic.twitter.com/Hse8WICCvU
This happened because there were reports that Trump's Iran speech earlier this week was going to be a threat for the U.S. to leave NATO, so the Times was trying to get cutesy with it and stepped on their own you-know-what's in the process.
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There are tired copy editors who work really really hard and make one innocent and mortifying mistake that becomes grist for the social media gumball machine https://t.co/QV2qmCkBZW
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) April 3, 2026
They were obviously trying to mock (or at least zing) Trump for something that as it turns out isn't even happening and that goal overrode any editorial discipline. That couldn't be more obvious. "The editors were tired" doesn't cut it.
The headline read "A North American Treaty Organization Without America" and it's likely what a couple editors saw was "YES! THIS MAKES TRUMP SOUND LIKE A REAL IDIOT!" The "joke" was on them, however.
Just another day for modern "journalism."
