{"id":125,"date":"2021-04-13T05:15:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T05:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillsong.com\/newsroom\/?p=125"},"modified":"2023-10-12T04:45:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T04:45:08","slug":"hillsong-church-response-to-new-york-post-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillsong.com\/newsroom\/blog\/2021\/04\/hillsong-church-response-to-new-york-post-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsong Church Response to New York Post Article Re: Michael Guglielmucci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 1, the\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em>\u00a0published an article about Michael Guglielmucci, claiming Michael was a former Hillsong pastor and Hillsong United band member. This article was posted without any effort to verify Michael\u2019s alleged former employment with Hillsong. The story was patently false as Mr. Guglielmucci was never a staff member or pastor of Hillsong, nor a member of Hillsong United. A representative of Hillsong reached out to inform\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em>\u00a0of their error and request a retraction, which\u00a0<em>New York Post\u00a0<\/em>initially declined to address. After the provision of additional information,\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em>\u00a0simply removed the original article, and posted a new article without the erroneous references.<\/p>\n<p>The letter below was sent to\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em>\u00a0to demand that they follow normal journalistic practices of publishing a correction, clarifying for their readers the previously published erroneous information. They have refused to do so.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-143 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/hillsong.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/04\/ATTY-LT-NYPOST-4837-7827-0949-v-flattened.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.hillsong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/04\/25060135\/ATTY-LT-NYPOST-4837-7827-0949-v-flattened.jpg 612w, https:\/\/cdn.hillsong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/04\/25060135\/ATTY-LT-NYPOST-4837-7827-0949-v-flattened-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/cdn.hillsong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/04\/25060135\/ATTY-LT-NYPOST-4837-7827-0949-v-flattened-541x700.jpg 541w, https:\/\/cdn.hillsong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/04\/25060135\/ATTY-LT-NYPOST-4837-7827-0949-v-flattened-220x285.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-142 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/hillsong.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/04\/ATTY-LT-NYPOST-4837-7827-0949-v-flattened-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.hillsong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/04\/25060133\/ATTY-LT-NYPOST-4837-7827-0949-v-flattened-2.jpg 612w, https:\/\/cdn.hillsong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/04\/25060133\/ATTY-LT-NYPOST-4837-7827-0949-v-flattened-2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/cdn.hillsong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/04\/25060133\/ATTY-LT-NYPOST-4837-7827-0949-v-flattened-2-541x700.jpg 541w, https:\/\/cdn.hillsong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/04\/25060133\/ATTY-LT-NYPOST-4837-7827-0949-v-flattened-2-220x285.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 1, the\u00a0New York Post\u00a0published an article about Michael Guglielmucci, claiming Michael was a former Hillsong pastor and Hillsong United band member. This article was posted without any effort to verify Michael\u2019s alleged former employment with Hillsong. The story was patently false as Mr. Guglielmucci was never a staff member or pastor of Hillsong, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hillsong Church Response to New York Post Article Re: Michael Guglielmucci - Newsroom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hillsong.com\/newsroom\/blog\/2021\/04\/hillsong-church-response-to-new-york-post-article\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[:en]Hillsong Church Response to New York Post Article Re: Michael Guglielmucci[:] - Newsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On April 1, the\u00a0New York Post\u00a0published an article about Michael Guglielmucci, claiming Michael was a former Hillsong pastor and Hillsong United band member. 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