Thank you for clarifying that for me. I see why they thought they should change it. I see you said they changed it within an hour, but is there a timeframe for when they changed it versus when Trump then were notified of Trump revoking their credentials? I can understand calling them out on the original headline.
I can tell you from my own experience (I was a newspaper guy for a few years in the late 1980s-early 1990s, small city/
regional dailies) that most of the time, even at lesser papers than the
Post, there's a separate headline writer from
the writers who actually dig up and write the stories. I used to try to push to get the more accurate headlines to the
stories I wrote and 99 percent of the time someone else would be writing the final headlines, and sometimes the headlines
weren't exactly what the meat of the story was trying to say. Often enough I had to explain that to people who saw
the headline, read something considerably different in the story, and ask what the hell I was thinking. Not fun.
