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DeepModem Mom

(38,402 posts)
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 07:33 PM Sep 2015

Another media screw-up: Washington Post last night... (HILLARY GROUP)

Hillary Haters were crazed with glee on Twitter last night until a false WP headline was changed:

* Media Parrot Faulty Wash. Post Headline To Scandalize Retroactive Classification Of Clinton Emails

Morning shows seized on a faulty Washington Post headline to allege that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton inappropriately wrote and sent classified emails during her time as secretary of state, whitewashing the fact that her emails were only retroactively marked "classified" and the opinion of experts that the existence of potentially classified information is not inherently obvious.

* Wash. Post Corrects Inaccurate Headline Claiming Clinton "WROTE CLASSIFIED EMAILS AND SENT THEM OVER PRIVATE SERVER"

The Washington Post Had To Fix Headline To Accurately Explain Clinton's Emails Were Only "Deemed Classified" After She Left Office: On September 1, The Washington Post published a story that correctly stated that "government officials deemed the e-mails classified after Clinton left office" but was misleadingly headlined, "Clinton wrote classified e-mails sent using private server." The Post later updated the headline to accurately reflect that Clinton's emails were not classified when she sent them. The new headline read: "Clinton, using private server, wrote and sent e-mails now deemed classified"...

http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/02/media-parrot-faulty-wash-post-headline-to-scand/205339 via Media Matters

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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. This was no mistake. The difference between 'before' and 'after' seems to have have somehow escaped all the editors??
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 07:52 PM
Sep 2015

randys1

(16,286 posts)
2. This is not a newsworthy story. It is a hit job by the right to make sure this Woman is not
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 07:36 PM
Sep 2015

president.

There are a few dozen billionaires who simply dont want to pay taxes and dont care if this country goes completely to shit.

Their hatred of her should tell the Hillary bashers something about what she isnt. she isnt their best friend. (i.e. she isnt the friend to the billionaires, if she was, why would they be working so hard to destroy her)

DeepModem Mom

(38,402 posts)
5. Awful! WP changed it late last night. (I was still up and online.)
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 08:19 PM
Sep 2015

Maybe MSN kept it up so Morning Joe could report it as Hillary scandal this morning -- which he apparently did. Wondering if he will correct tomorrow.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
6. Damn, they must be very fearful of Trump. If Hillary was saying the things Trump was saying they
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 08:33 PM
Sep 2015

would be burning her at stake.

Cha

(297,196 posts)
7. And, guess what?! It won't be the last. :( Hillary's like President Obama.. she brings out the
Thu Sep 3, 2015, 05:31 AM
Sep 2015

seething haters from under the rocks!

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