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CNN Corrects Botched WikiLeaks Report: Initial Reporting ‘Was Incorrect’
Mediaite ^ | 8 Dec 2017 | Justin Baragona

Posted on 12/08/2017 2:46:23 PM PST by mandaladon

Hours after publishing a bombshell report claiming members of the Trump campaign and Trump Organization — including then-candidate Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. — had received an email from WikiLeaks providing a decryption key and website address to hacked content, CNN has issued a correction noting that it got the date of the email incorrect.

Below is the correction from the CNN report:

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.

CNN Communications also tweeted out an explanation:

CNN's initial reporting of the date on an email sent to members of the Trump campaign about Wikileaks documents, which was confirmed by two sources to CNN, was incorrect. We have updated our story to include the correct date, and present the proper context for the timing of email

(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anothermediascrewup; clintonnonnews; cnn; crapnewsnetwork; fakenews; leftistlies; media; msm; partisanmediashills; trump; wikileaks
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To: Signalman

Don’t forget the huge Bloomberg story on Tuesday about Trump Deutschland bank subpoena that was retracted. Three massive botches.


21 posted on 12/08/2017 4:04:24 PM PST by nhwingut (Trump Pence 16 - Blow Up DC)
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Jeff B/DDHQ
Jeff B/DDHQ
@EsotericCD
.@ChuckRossDC drills down into what informed ppl are already telling me was source of CNN’s massively botched DJT Jr/Wikileaks: Dems on the House Intelligence committee intentionally misleading CNN to affect news cycle:

https://mobile.twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/939280361745534976


22 posted on 12/08/2017 4:05:57 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: mandaladon

This is September 14th...


23 posted on 12/08/2017 4:06:03 PM PST by DrymChaser
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To: TomGuy
They just make them, correct them after they have been circulated for a while, and move on to the next one.

They know that the false story, which got far more air time than the correction, is out on the internet forever. Any search for the incident will get lots of hits to the incorrect story. I think that the dishonest media does this on purpose.

24 posted on 12/08/2017 4:24:50 PM PST by Freee-dame (Best election ever.)
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To: doug from upland

Just reading that got me excited. Please oh please let it come to pass.


25 posted on 12/08/2017 4:27:44 PM PST by BlueHorseShoe ( Let us all speak out, rise up, lead and conquer!)
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To: mandaladon

bookmark


26 posted on 12/08/2017 4:29:29 PM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: mandaladon

let me slightly clarify mediaite’s lead sentence:

Hours after publishing a FAKE bombshell report claiming members of the Trump campaign and Trump Organization had received an email from WikiLeaks providing a decryption key and website address to hacked content ... Very Fake News CNN has issued a correction noting that it got the date of the email incorrect ... BECAUSE Washington Post published an article explaining why Very Fake News CNN’s FAKE bombshell was fake ...


27 posted on 12/08/2017 5:10:58 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: TomGuy

“Like the Behar hoot last week, many Libs/anti-Trumpers were hooting at this new revelation — until it was revised with the correction.”

right. first ABC’s fake “we finally took down trump”, and then bloomberg’s “we finally took down trump”, and then CNN’s “we finally took down trump”, all within a week and all retracted within hours.

I wonder how exhausted all of the dancing uber-leftists are from being whipsawed by these “we finally took down trump” fake news stories being retracted? i bet there will be a new syndrome genned up for this type of exhaustion, something like “Retracted Fake Get-Trump Exhaustion”.


28 posted on 12/08/2017 5:18:12 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: GraceG

Now, that’s funny!


29 posted on 12/08/2017 5:32:05 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: mandaladon

Wasn’t incorrect, it was fake.


30 posted on 12/08/2017 7:41:22 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: doug from upland
Waiting for the Nuremberg Chappaqua Trials and the carrying out of sentencing.
31 posted on 12/08/2017 9:39:09 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: mandaladon

Remember this?

SJWs always*project*.

32 posted on 12/08/2017 10:43:52 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Paladin2
“Incorrect” = FAKE!


33 posted on 12/08/2017 10:46:22 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: mandaladon

And they all keep moaning about the term “Fake News” - ironic....


34 posted on 12/09/2017 3:24:12 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Dr.Deth

That’s just a white supremacist./s


35 posted on 12/09/2017 10:37:49 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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