{"id":41041,"date":"2026-04-04T15:34:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=41041"},"modified":"2026-04-04T15:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:34:34","slug":"new-york-times-forced-to-issue-correction-after-wild-whiff-on-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=41041","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Forced To Issue Correction After Wild Whiff On NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The New York Times got hit with a wave of backlash \u2014 and ultimately was forced to issue a correction \u2014 after Friday\u2019s print edition included a headline replacing the word \u201cAtlantic\u201d in North Atlantic Treaty Organization with \u201cAmerican.\u201d<\/p>\n

POLITICO editor Sasha Issenburg drew attention to the flub, sharing a photo of the newspaper showing both the date and the erroneous headline, which read, \u201cA North American Treaty Organization Without America?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Does the @nytimes<\/a> know what NATO stands for? pic.twitter.com\/wvD1WxPOnN<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sasha Issenberg (@sissenberg) April 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer weighed in on the paper\u2019s mistake, noting that every headline published by The New York Times had to make it past multiple editors before going to print.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NYT should release the names of every editor who read this and did not correct it. They have multiple layers of editors, especially for the print publication. That\u2019s what the NYT would demand when the government makes a bad mistake. They should live up to the same standard,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Former Trump administration official Richard Grenell pointed out that the piece\u2019s author, Steven Erlanger, as the paper\u2019s Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for Europe: \u201cYikes.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Trump even commented on the flub on Saturday morning, saying in a Truth Social post<\/a>, \u201cThe Failing New York Times, whose lack of credibility, and their constant Fake News attacks on your favorite President, ME, has caused its circulation to absolutely PLUMMET, referred to our severely weakened and extremely unreliable \u201cpartner,\u201dNATO, as the North American Treaty Organization. The correct name is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization \u2013 A very interesting mistake! The hiring and educational standards have gone way down at the NYT. Bring back, \u201cALL THE NEWS THAT\u2019S FIT TO PRINT\u201d and, Make America Great Again!\u201d<\/p>\n

The article itself referenced President Donald Trump\u2019s repeated threats to leave the organization over other nations \u2014 primarily in Europe \u2014 not providing monetary or military support when the United States is the one asking. Those threats have only accelerated as European allies have failed to answer calls for assistance with Operation Epic Fury in Iran.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been equally critical<\/a> of NATO, saying in recent remarks that if the United States could not rely on NATO allies when help was needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf now we have reached a point where the NATO alliance means that we can\u2019t use those bases, that, in fact, that we can no longer use those bases to defend America\u2019s interests, then NATO is a one-way street. Then NATO is simply about us having troops in Europe to defend Europe,\u201d Rubio told Fox News host Sean Hannity, adding that it did not make strategic sense for the United States to remain in the organization if it was going to be so one-sided.<\/p>\n

By Friday afternoon, the outlet issued a statement<\/a> promising a correction in Saturday\u2019s print edition: \u201cA correction will appear in tomorrow\u2019s print edition: \u2018A headline with an article on Friday about President Trump\u2019s threats to leave NATO misstated the full name of the body. It is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, not the North American Treaty Organization.’\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n