You could say that the left-wing Los Angeles Times has a Trump obsession after even the obituary for O.J. Simpson featured the name of the presumptive GOP nominee.
After the news broke that the former NFL star running back had passed away at the age of 76 years old after a battle with prostate cancer, the media exploded with coverage of a man whose trial for allegedly murdering his wife and a male friend would come to define American culture, and not in good ways.
But the LA Times, the newspaper for the city that Simpson was tried in, drew criticism after the former president’s name popped up in its lengthy obit, something that just shouldn’t happen at an outlet with a competent editorial staff without an agenda.
LA Times accidentally uses the name “Trump” in place of “Simpson” near the end of their obit: https://t.co/BVoH4fYKQz pic.twitter.com/Y5qLS6EN23
— Zack Stanton (@zackstanton) April 11, 2024
In its final tribute to Simpson, the paper substituted the name of the left’s greatest boogeyman in a paragraph about when “The Juice” was released from a Nevada prison in 2017 after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence for armed robbery.
“Long before the city woke up on a fall morning in 2017, Trump walked out of Lovelock Correctional Center outside Reno, a free man for the first time in nine years,” read the Times obit. “He didn’t go far, moving into a 5,000-square-foot home in Las Vegas with a Bentley in the driveway.”
After drawing attention, the paper later corrected its “mistake” with an editor’s note added to the obituary.
“An earlier version of this obituary used the wrong name when describing Simpson leaving Lovelock Correctional Center. The error has been corrected,” read the update.
Some were skeptical that the Times’ insertion of Trump into its O.J. piece was really a typo.
“I mean… there’s no shot this wasn’t intentional,” wrote Fox News contributor Joe Concha on X.
I mean… there’s no shot this wasn’t intentional. https://t.co/PepfeIMIht
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) April 11, 2024
Other user reactions to the inexplicable inclusion of the former president’s name in the totally unrelated obit.
Someone needs to talk to their shrink https://t.co/twKDFrywRF
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) April 11, 2024
This is why the public has lost trust in the media!
— K. Overstreet (@investigationsk) April 11, 2024
Not a mistake….wishful thinking.
— Pikayla (@TheRealPikayla) April 11, 2024
Freudian slip.
— Blue Georgia (@BlueATLGeorgia) April 11, 2024
No way this was an accident. How can you mix up Trump and OJ
— High Ground (@Highgroundvader) April 12, 2024
Obsessed
— Bub pickin sports (@LegionOfDoomCTG) April 12, 2024
On the opposite coast, another newspaper of note, the New York Times, also drew fire for its own altering of its own sendoff to Simpson.
“He ran to football fame on the field and made fortunes in movies. But his world was ruined after he was charged with killing his former wife and her friend,” the NY Times wrote in the initial version, later tweaking the line to make it more about race.
“…but his world was ruined…” pic.twitter.com/jIMEXaws5V
— Mike Madrid (@madrid_mike) April 11, 2024
“He ran to football fame and made fortunes in movies. His trial for the murder of his former wife and her friend became an inflection point on race in America,” read the updated line.
The Times also altered another line about the so-called “trial of the century” and its effect on O.J.’s life.
“The infamous case, which held up a cracked mirror to Black and white America, cleared Mr. Simpson but ruined his world,” the Times stated, updating its line to later read, “The jury in the murder trial cleared him, but the case, which had held up a cracked mirror to Black and white America, changed the trajectory of his life.”
There are good reasons for why millions of Americans no longer trust the media and these are just the examples of the day.
Click this link for the original source of this article.
Author: Chris Donaldson
This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, https://americanwirenews.com and its author. This content is made available by use of the public RSS feed offered by the host site and is used for educational purposes only. If you are the author or represent the host site and would like this content removed now and in the future, please contact USSANews.com using the email address in the Contact page found in the website menu.