I don't know all the details, but so far this looks a good example of the opposite irrationality to blind news trust: Jumping at the chance to criticize the new

I don't know all the details, but so far this looks a good example of the opposite irrationality to blind news trust: Jumping at the chance to criticize the news. Hatred of journalists is the default position for a lot of people. In this case, it seems reasonable to report on people saying they were fired who are going so far as to physically act the part. I wouldn't have suspected they were lying. Also, it's not a particularly dramatic thing to get wrong, as long as they correct it. It's not as if they're reporting somebody's death. Commenters are calling this "scary" and "illuminating". Some outlets report some pretty scarily big falsehoods, for sure, but this is not one of them. Another commenter even went so far as to imply that not knowing the word "ligma" is a joke counts as bad journalism. The tone is uncharitable, to put it lightly.