Associated Press botches Hillary Clinton report and response

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The press ran with this botched story. Now we keep seeing these 'corrections', but I fear they are too late. Will the AP ever be held accountable?




Associated Press botches Hillary Clinton report and response

Associated Press botches Hillary Clinton report and response
http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/26/media/associated-press-hillary-clinton-investigation/

by Dylan Byers @CNNMoney August 26, 2016: 9:19 PM ET

Hillary Clinton is surrounded by suggestions of controversy. Terms like "Clinton Foundation," "email server," and "Benghazi" hover around her like a faint smoke that hints at the existence of fire.

But finding the fire -- the lie, the misdeed, the unethical act -- is proving to be rather difficult, as evidenced this week by an inaccurate tweet and arguably misleading story from the Associated Press that were quickly rebutted by the Clinton campaign and dismissed by many media outlets.

Three days later, the Associated Press is still standing by its story and has yet to correct its tweet, despite near unanimous agreement among other journalists that the tweet, at least, was false.

"The AP's social-media take on the story was seriously flawed," David Boardman, the Dean of the School of Media and Communication at Temple University and former editor of the Seattle Times, told CNNMoney. "It's sloppy, click-grabbing shorthand that is a disservice to the reporting to which it refers."

On Tuesday, the AP sent out a breaking news alert: "BREAKING: AP analysis: More than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation."

Not true: As the article stated, what the AP found was that "more than half the people outside the government" who met with Clinton while she was secretary of state "gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation."

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Nevertheless, the AP's tweet allowed Donald Trump to stand on stage at a campaign rally and declare that "fifty percent of people who saw [Clinton] had to make a contribution to the Clinton Foundation."
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[OnDoutside]

1. It was a hit job, from lazy hacks, which should be remembered

And used against them next time.

[still_one]

2. They won't be held accountable. The NYTimes and Washington Post have also have been distorting,

misrepresenting, and pushing false stories about Hillary, for some time now, and were never held accountable.

Here is one example in July 2015, and there are quite a few others

http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/07/27/after-two-corrections-the-ny-times-botched-emai/204610