A 1,898-word New York Times profile on Melania Trump, wife of 2016 GOP front-runner Donald Trump, somehow went to press this week, despite that it contained nearly half a dozen errors.
Times reporter Guy Trebay’s mistakes were numerous, including that he misspelled the name of Wendi Deng Murdoch, ex-wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and that he incorrectly identified Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
By Thursday afternoon, this is what the Times had to say about the Sept. 30 profile, titled “Melania Trump, the Silent Partner:”
Correction: September 30, 2015
An earlier version of this article misspelled the given name of Rupert Murdoch’s former wife. She is Wendi Deng Murdoch, not Wendy.
Correction: September 30, 2015
An earlier version of this article misstated the age of Melania Knauss when she posed for a photo in Talk magazine. She was 29, not 26, making her almost a quarter-century younger than her future husband, not more than a quarter-century younger.
Correction: September 30, 2015
An earlier version of this article misidentified the debate that Mrs. Trump attended. She was in the audience at the Fox News debate in Cleveland in August. She was not in attendance at the CNN debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif.
Correction: October 1, 2015
An earlier version of this article misidentified the position Marco Rubio holds in Congress. He is a member of the United States Senate, not the House of Representatives.
Correction: October 1, 2015
An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of an editor at The Palm Beach Daily News. He is Robert Janjigian, not Jangigian. The article also referred imprecisely to Mr. Janjigian’s role at the paper. While he has reported on society, he is in charge of fashion coverage, not society coverage. (Shannon Donnelly is the society editor.)
Boston Globe reporter Annie Linskey likely summed up the press corps’ reaction to the stories numerous inaccuracies:
Honestly, somebody should just buy this NYT reporter a drink. Am sure he needs it. pic.twitter.com/y5nXE4ULRg
— Annie Linskey (@AnnieLinskey) October 1, 2015
Perhaps make it a double.
