This week would have marked the 100th anniversary of the New York Times’ tradition of printing the Declaration of Independence; however, readers weren’t too pleased when it was printed on July 5th rather than on July 4th.
According to the Wednesday edition of “Playbook,” Politico reported that the outlet forgot its “longstanding tradition.” New York Times spokesperson Danielle Rhoades Ha attributed the mistake to “human error.”
Furthermore, Ha explained that Times employees forgot to put the Declaration of Independence into print this year. The spokesperson added that the newspaper has no plans to change its longstanding tradition.
“We have a longstanding tradition of printing the Declaration of Independence in the July 4th print edition. Due to a human error, it wasn’t printed this July 4th so was included in the July 5th edition,” Ha said. “We have no plans to change the tradition going forward.”
The tradition of the New York Times printing the Declaration of Independence began in 1922 as it started printing “facsimile of the original document,” and every year since.
Eduardo Razo is the Assistant Content Editor for BNM, which includes writing daily news stories on the news media industry. He can be found on Twitter @eddierazo_ or you can reach him by email at eddie1991razo@gmail.com.
