{"id":76278,"date":"2017-12-02T08:25:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T13:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76278"},"modified":"2017-12-02T08:28:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T13:28:10","slug":"abc-news-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76278","title":{"rendered":"ABC News&#8217; fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/12\/01\/media\/abc-news-flynn-correction\/index.html\">CNN Money<\/a>, ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross reported that an unnamed single source told him that Michael Flynn was going to testify that candidate-Trump asked him to make contact with Russians before the election last year. Before last night&#8217;s evening news broadcast, ABC News had retracted the story. This appeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/michael-flynn-charged-making-false-statements-fbi-documents\/story?id=50849354\">text story<\/a> and on Twitter;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CORRECTION 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* &#8212; initially as a way to work together to fight ISIS in Syria, confidant now says. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ewrkVZTu2K\">https:\/\/t.co\/ewrkVZTu2K<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/URLiHf3uSm\">pic.twitter.com\/URLiHf3uSm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/936805557029048321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The story was altered to read that Trump had asked Flynn to make contact with the Russians AFTER he had won the election.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, before the correction;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A tweet published by ABC News containing Ross&#8217; initial report had been retweeted more than 25,000 times and embedded in various news stories online before it was deleted. ABC posted a &#8220;clarification&#8221; on Twitter around 8 p.m. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And they wonder why Trump calls them &#8220;fake news&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning, according to CNN Money, ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross reported that an unnamed &hellip; <a title=\"ABC News&#8217; fake news\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76278\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ABC News&#8217; fake news<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}