From Fox News: Would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh was declared guilty on Tuesday on all charges, but The New York Times accidentally published the wrong article.
In journalism, outlets often pre-write obituaries, election outcomes and potential court verdicts of major cases before they occur, using the basic facts of the story and adding whatever key details are essential on the day of.
However, a screenshot indicated that the New York Times accidentally published a headline, “Man Found Not Guilty of Trying to Assassinate Trump in Florida.” The lede of the now-scrubbed article added, “In a surprise verdict, a federal jury acquitted Ryan Routh of attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate last year. The screenshot also indicated that the article would be published in the print edition on September 24, 2025.
Podcast host and Fox News contributor Mary Katharine Ham posted the screenshot and wrote, “Just searched Ryan Routh’s name @nytimes and got this result in the first head and subhead. I get it y’all have some kind of prewrite, but why is it preloaded? Routh was just convicted on all charges. Let’s make sure that’s the print edition tomorrow.”
The Times responded with a statement to clean up the mess. The statement reads:
“Ahead of some newsworthy events like courtroom verdicts, The Times and many other news organizations make preparations for different possible outcomes. An earlier version of this article was published inadvertently with a pre-written version of a not guilty verdict; it was replaced with the correct version less than a minute later, and a correction was added to explain what happened. As the current version makes clear, Mr. Routh was found guilty on all five counts against him.”
— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) September 23, 2025
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