Fake News (again): CNN issues correction over Trump WikiLeaks email story

[FakeNews]

CNN walked back an “exclusive” story Friday in which it initially reported on an email it claimed indicated that WikiLeaks may have reached out to then-candidate Donald Trump’s team to offer hacked WikiLeaks documents.

The initial story, by Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb and titled, “Exclusive: Email shows effort to give Trump campaign WikiLeaks documents,” reported that Trump’s team was sent an email on September 4, 2016 offering a website and decryption key to the team. CNN’s report noted that it had not seen the email but that it was “described” to them by multiple sources.

Crucially, the Post reported that the email was actually sent Sept. 14 – not Sept. 4 as CNN claimed. The difference in the date is vital, as WikiLeaks had reportedly sent out the information linked to in the email on Sept. 13, making it publicly available, and meaning that the writer was likely flagging information that was already in the public domain.

CNN issued a correction at the top of the story late Friday. “Correction: This story has been corrected to say the date of the email was September 14, 2016, not September 4, 2016. The story also changed the headline and removed a tweet from Donald Trump Jr., who posted a message about WikiLeaks on September 4, 2016.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journa...-correction-over-trump-wikileaks-email-story/

 

[Hypoxia]

One digit wrong.

Found, corrected, and announced.

Notice that Tromp, Gups, alt.right, never correct their many fuckups?

They think their shit don't stink.

It does, badly.

 

[WoundedKnee]

Lol. Using proper journalistic double-sourcing, they made an error of date, nothing to see here, move on and bring back Brian Ross ABC. Wtf is the matter with you people? Are you deplorables?