Humiliating.
CNN was forced to correct a story from earlier in the week after four journalists got the story on former FBI chief James Comey dead wrong.
On Tuesday, confident CNN journalists Gloria Borger, Jake Tapper, Brian Rokus, and Eric Lichtblau, ran a report titled, “Comey expected to refute Trump” based on information they got from anonymous sources. They were so confident, that Borger said in a televised appearance at the network, “Comey is going to dispute the president on this point if he’s asked about it by senators, and we have to assume that he will be. He will say he never assured Donald Trump that he was not under investigation, that that would have been improper for him to do so.”
Except, Comey’s opening statement on Thursday didn’t confirm what CNN’s unreliable sources claimed:
"Prior to the January 6 meeting, I discussed with the FBI’s leadership team whether I should be prepared to assure President-Elect Trump that we were not investigating him personally. That was true; we did not have an open counter-intelligence case on him. We agreed I should do so if circumstances warranted.
"During our one-on-one meeting at Trump Tower, based on President Elect Trump’s reaction to the briefing and without him directly asking the question, I offered that assurance.”
So, CNN changed the headline to “Comey unlikely to judge on obstruction” and published a correction:
This article was published before Comey released his prepared opening statement. The article and headline have been corrected to reflect that Comey does not directly dispute that Trump was told multiple times he was not under investigation in his prepared testimony released after this story was published.
ABC News had the same problem, according to The Hill. It, too, issued a correction to one of its stories:
While Comey did stop short of characterizing Trump’s words as obstruction of justice during his testimony Thursday, he in fact testified that he did tell President Trump on three separate occasions that he was not “personally” the subject of a counter-intelligence investigation," reads the update in the third paragraph.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Alex Griswold posted two brilliant screenshots of two totally separate stories from CNN. Wow:
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CNN was forced to correct a story from earlier in the week after four journalists got the story on former FBI chief James Comey dead wrong.
On Tuesday, confident CNN journalists Gloria Borger, Jake Tapper, Brian Rokus, and Eric Lichtblau, ran a report titled, “Comey expected to refute Trump” based on information they got from anonymous sources. They were so confident, that Borger said in a televised appearance at the network, “Comey is going to dispute the president on this point if he’s asked about it by senators, and we have to assume that he will be. He will say he never assured Donald Trump that he was not under investigation, that that would have been improper for him to do so.”
Except, Comey’s opening statement on Thursday didn’t confirm what CNN’s unreliable sources claimed:
"Prior to the January 6 meeting, I discussed with the FBI’s leadership team whether I should be prepared to assure President-Elect Trump that we were not investigating him personally. That was true; we did not have an open counter-intelligence case on him. We agreed I should do so if circumstances warranted.
"During our one-on-one meeting at Trump Tower, based on President Elect Trump’s reaction to the briefing and without him directly asking the question, I offered that assurance.”
So, CNN changed the headline to “Comey unlikely to judge on obstruction” and published a correction:
This article was published before Comey released his prepared opening statement. The article and headline have been corrected to reflect that Comey does not directly dispute that Trump was told multiple times he was not under investigation in his prepared testimony released after this story was published.
ABC News had the same problem, according to The Hill. It, too, issued a correction to one of its stories:
While Comey did stop short of characterizing Trump’s words as obstruction of justice during his testimony Thursday, he in fact testified that he did tell President Trump on three separate occasions that he was not “personally” the subject of a counter-intelligence investigation," reads the update in the third paragraph.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Alex Griswold posted two brilliant screenshots of two totally separate stories from CNN. Wow:
Alex GriswoldVerified account@HashtagGriswold
Life comes at you at a brisk pace
