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These scumbag who are not interested in distinguishing fact and fiction (so much so that CNN covered the fakery) are not interested in correcting their story – they prefer to blame their source.
Fabulous work by the Right Side Broadcasting Corporations. This is citizen journalism at it should be!
FAKE NEWS: ABC Makes Embarrassing Correction of Trump Allegation
Right
Side Broadcasting Network
ABC
News tonight was forced to make an embarrassing correction of a huge
allegation it made earlier in the day that candidate President Trump
told Michael Flynn to talk to the Russians. This bombshell
accusation, made by reporter Brian Ross, sent the stock market into a
tailspin. ABC didn't correct the story until hours later, after their
original Tweet on it had over 25,000 retweets. We have LIVE BREAKING
NEWS COVERAGE of ABC's embarrassing mistake
ABC's Brian Ross: Flynn Prepared To Testify Against Trump, Trump Family, White House Staff
JUST
IN: @BrianRoss on @ABC News Special Report: Michael Flynn promised
"full cooperation to the Mueller team" and is prepared to
testify that as a candidate, Donald Trump "directed him to make
contact with the Russians." https://t.co/aiagnvr8eS
pic.twitter.com/r8u2LWAd0O
- ABC News (@ABC) December 1, 2017
"He
has promised full cooperation to the Mueller team," Ross
reported. "He's prepared to testify, we are told by a
confidante, against President Trump, against members of the Trump
family, and others in the White House."
Ross
said Flynn is also prepared to testify that, as a candidate, Trump
"ordered him and directed him to make contact with the Russians
which contradicts all that Donald Trump has said at this point."
"Clarified",not CORRECTED
From ABC's the View
Going with the fakery! This is journalism?!! It seems more like gloating at a celebration party. Except it was all false!
"Clarified",not CORRECTED
ABC News corrects bombshell Flynn report
ABC News on Friday evening corrected an explosive special report that aired in the morning saying that Donald Trump, as a candidate for president, had asked Michael Flynn to make contact with Russians.
During
"World News Tonight," ABC News investigative reporter Brian
Ross said the source who had provided the initial information for his
story later told him that it was as president-elect, not as a
candidate, that Trump asked Flynn to contact the Russians.
The
initial report, based on one anonymous source, prompted a dramatic
reaction in the financial markets, and the
Dow fell more than 350 points.
Stocks
largely recovered later in the day.
The sharp slide in the stock market came within minutes of an ABC News report that Flynn is prepared to testify that Trump directed him to make contact with Russians. http://cnnmon.ie/2zTN7m2
CNN
had reached out to ABC News in the early afternoon to ask why Ross'
initial reporting was not included in the network's online story
about Flynn pleading guilty to lying to the FBI.
Several
hours later, a spokesperson for the network told CNN that Ross would
be issuing a "clarification" on "World News Tonight,"
which airs at 6:30 p.m. ET.
"[A]
clarification tonight on something one of Flynn's confidants told us
and we reported earlier today," Ross said on the program. "He
said the president had asked Flynn to contact Russia during the
campaign. He's now clarifying that saying, according to Flynn,
candidate Trump asked him during the campaign to find ways to repair
relations with Russia and other world hot spots. And then after the
election, the president-elect asked him to contact Russia on issues
including working together to fight ISIS."
A
tweet published by ABC News containing Ross' initial report had been
retweeted more than 25,000 times and embedded in various news stories
online before it was deleted. ABC posted a"clarification" on
Twitter around 8 p.m.
An
ABC spokesperson said the network learned its initial reporting was
incorrect at about 6 p.m. The network spokesperson declined to say if
any disciplinary action would occur.
ABC's
decision to call its correction a "clarification" prompted
immediate criticism.
"If
we want to regain trust in the media, we need to admit our mistakes,
especially when as consequential as this. Retract. Correct. Don't use
weasel words to describe it," Jonathan Swan of Axios tweeted.
Greta
Van Susteren blasted
ABC for
trying to "sugar coat" its mistake by characterizing it as
a "clarification."
This
is not the first high-profile mistake by Ross. In a 2012 piece for
which he apologized, he suggested that the Aurora shooter may have
had a connection to the Tea Party.
Going with the fakery! This is journalism?!! It seems more like gloating at a celebration party. Except it was all false!
8:54 AM - 1 Dec 2017
ABC
Makes "Epic Mistake", Retracts Bombshell Flynn Story
1
December, 2017
Having
caused chaos in financial markets briefly, set the liberal media on
fire with 'I told you so's, and sparked a renewed round of
#ImpeachTrump demands, ABC
News issued
a 'clarification' to their bombshell Flynn report that not only
negates the entire story but provides President Trump with another
round of ammunition to fire against the 'fake news' media.
Critically, ABC
News reports, correcting
their earlier report, that Michael
Flynn is prepared to testify that Donald Trump directed him to
contact the Russians as
president-elect, not as a candidate.
Here
is the full 'clarification'
During a live Special Report, ABC News reported that a confidant of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said Flynn was prepared to testify that then-candidate Donald Trump instructed him to contact Russian officials during the campaign.
That source later clarified that during the campaign, Trump assigned Flynn and a small circle of other senior advisers to find ways to repair relations with Russia and other hot spots.
It was shortly after the election, that President-elect Trump directed Flynn to contact Russian officials on topics that included working jointly against ISIS.
So
to clarify - just as President Trump had stated, there was no contact
with Russians during his time as a candidate but in fact it was in
transition as he attempted to mend broken bridges with another world
super-power in his role as president-elect - this in no way a
criminal act at all. In
fact, reaching out to foreign governments during transitions is
standard procedure.
CNN
is embarrassed...
Axios
apologizes for its use of the story...
(We regret highlighting a story that had one source making an astonishing allegation.)
And
maybe Brian Ross, so-called journalist and ABC News Chief
Investigative Correspondent, who wrote the ABC article, will explain
himself and his 'sources' for this nothingburger of a story.
One
wonder what the consequences are, or should be, for such an obvious
error.
The
original tweet published by ABC News containing Ross' initial report
had been retweeted more than 25,000 timesand
embedded in various news stories online before it was delete.
But the
clarification - issued at 7:53pmET - has just 2600 RTs...
CLARIFICATION of ABC News Special Report: Flynn prepared to testify that President-elect Donald Trump directed him to make contact with the Russians *during the transition* -- initially as a way to work together to fight ISIS in Syria, confidant now says. https://t.co/ewrkVZBTbc pic.twitter.com/GQAKwT1Eda
— ABC News (@ABC) December 2, 2017
Is
it any wonder trust in the mainstream media is at rock bottom?
We
look forward to President Trump's tirade over this.
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