I thought this was interesting, given all the drama over the Trump administration, Russia, #FakeNews, and everything else:
I read one of your other posts, and would appreciate some of your thoughts, not just a bunch of links.
After all that’s what spammers (and Russians?) do 
I think they shot themselves in the foot. They (the media generally) had this great juicy story about how they were finally going to nail Trump for Russian collusion with Flynn’s plea bargain, and the wind kind of got sucked out of those sails between this ABC News #FakeNews drama and the news that one of Mueller’s top investigators had to be let go for political bias.
ABC dragged their feet in acknowledging their error and correcting it, but it is heartening to see that they seem to really want to get it right the next time.
And FWIW, I also think it’s a good sign for Mueller’s investigation that he fired (or was it re-assigned?) the anti-Trump guy. At least he’s trying to appear non-partisan.
So, um, what was the mistaken story, what was the truth, and what was the fallout?
From the CNN story:
Okay, so Ross screwed up, ABC suspended him for the screw up. Isn’t that the way a legit news organization works?
Fake news is deliberate. A mistake is not.
You know what’s frustrating (I’m not saying you’re doing this, but I have seen it online)?
ABC News fucks up and posts something false: Oh shit, we fucked up. Here’s what we’re doing to punish those who spread falsehood.
Trump, the president of the United fucking States, publishes a video that was outright false: It shouldn’t matter if it was fake. The point stands.
Which one is getting Conservatives in a tizzy?
Well, ideally a legit news organization would double-check their information before going on the air with bad info (I believe WaPo was quite proud - and rightfully so - of a recent example of this). Once that ship has sailed though, suspending / firing the screw-up is probably a reasonable step. The belated [del]clarification[/del] correction did them no favors either, as their president acknowledged.
The ABC News President didn’t seem to make this distinction. He said they:
No, he is saying 250,000 other jackasses don’t know the difference between fake news (meant to decieve) and mistaken news (which is later corrected).
They got pilloried by others for publishing fake news. It was a mistake, not deliberate.
And while you feed the frenzy on this, Trump spreads fake news, deliberate fake news, every time he opens his mouth or tweets.
My cite was a direct quote from him. Your cite was … your mind-reading powers? Some inferences? A guess?
It is based on reading comprehension of the exact quote you used.
How would a non-partisan person objectively reach this conclusion? It’s perhaps not an unreasonable guess, but I don’t know what was going on in Brian Ross’ mind when he went on the air. Do you?
Then why are you insisting it’s fake news?
I’m quoting the president of the company. He called it “fake news”.
He said the network was being accused of reporting fake news by other people.
That’s what “being pilloried for” means.
He did not say that ABC reported fake news.
Inaccurate news, mistaken news, careless reporting of news, yes.
Knowing what we know now, this is awfully funny too: The View hosts and audience react to Ross’ inaccurate / mistaken / careless reporting of news.
Fake news is news that you don’t like.