The New York Times added five corrections late Wednesday to a profile on Melania Trump, wife of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump — none of which addressed the removal of a close-up photo of the former model wearing bikini bottoms from the piece.
The Times embedded the photo, which Melania Trump posted to Twitter earlier this year with the message “perfect beach day,” in the article but deleted it by Wednesday afternoon. A Times spokesperson told TPM by way of explanation that the newspaper does “regularly edit the text and art in articles all the time, for a variety of reasons, over the course of the day online and between editions for print.”
The corrections appended to the article included misspellings of people’s names and a reference to Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio as a congressman.
Read the corrections below:
Amurikkka’s “4th estate” is dead and buried next to Jimmy Hoffa under the trailer in which Elvis is living outside Area 51.
It shall never be found or heard from again.
Truer words were never spoken. What a dirt rag this paper has become.
That’s really all this TPM story is relevant to. Pretty obviously the NYT story was drafted by a fashion and society reporter, and edited, if at all, by someone in the Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous department. Trained reporters who adhere to actual journalistic standards don’t make that many errors on basic, easily checked facts without a policy that adheres slavishly to pandering.
The other thing this should remind those of us who care is that Trump’s presidential style would be, in its own way, every bit as crass as the premiership of Berlosconi.
Other edits included changing “Huge” to “Yuuuge” and “classy” to “Luxurious.” There was also one instance of correcting “vagina” to “lady parts.”
Fair enough. On this site, I’d settle for the occasional spellcheck from TPM.