NEW YORK, NY — The recent string of embarrassing incidents involving popular media outlets continued on Monday, as The New York Times was forced to retract a story due to several accuracies.
The once-trusted newspaper of record issued a public release retracting a story after it was brought to the attention of the editorial staff that the piece contained a shocking number of trust statements.
“We sincerely apologize for allowing this to happen,” Executive Editor Joseph Kahn said in the statement. “Here at The New York Times, we pride ourselves on not allowing any accuracies to make their way through the editorial process without being corrected. We retract this abhorrent true story and pledge to all of our readers that we will do better moving forward.”
Readers online pointed out that they knew something was off as soon as they read the article. “The abundance of truth was a dead giveaway,” one reader posted on social media. “This wasn’t the rotting cesspool of misinformation I’ve come to know and love over the years. There’s no excuse for publishing accurate news like this. Do better, New York Times.”
The paper promised to tighten up its vetting process to ensure that only the most fiercely inaccurate stories would see print. “We’ve been the best at reporting fake news for years,” one insider said. “It’s time to get back to the basics and start lying to people in everything we report.”
At publishing time, sources revealed that The New York Times had already fired one of its lead journalists for inadvertently reporting a true story.
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