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Originally Posted by Mick
BREAKING: NBC issued a correction to its wiretap story on MSNBC.
Feds are "monitoring" Michael Cohen’s calls, they are NOT listening to or recording them, there is NO "wiretapping."
In otherwords what they reported initially, was Fake News.
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I think there's a few types of incorrect news:
Fake news - where the outlet makes up a story or reports an incorrect story it's been fed. Famous examples being The Sunday Times's Hitler Diaries and The Sun's Hillsborough story.
Headline doesn't equal story. Headline writers don't write the news stories so often don't read them in full. Quite a few examples abound in the Daily Mail and Express. Here's one.
Headline: Air pollution now leading cause of lung cancer
Article: Dr Sharp said it’s important to keep the risk of air pollution “in perspective”. She said “Although air pollution increases the risks of developing lung cancer by a small amount, other things have a much bigger effect on our risk, particularly smoking.”
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style...of-lung-cancer
Satire. Made famous by The Onion and Southend News Network. Most famously, news agency the Associated Press asked the latter for more details on its story about a mother who was arrested for accidentally naming her baby ‘Heroin’ instead of ‘Hermione’
http://www.southendnewsnetwork.net/n...n-baby-heroin/
Mistakes. Sometimes due to time pressures or journalistic errors, mistakes do occur. I would suggest this is what happened with NBC.