Here’s the thing. You’re complaining about how the reporter got everything wrong, but when confronted with multiple unambiguous sources showing that one of the errors is yours, rather than saying, “Oops, learned something new today!” your response is to double down on your mistake, refusing to admit you could be wrong about it.
The effect of this double-down isn’t to make your case look stronger. On the contrary, it casts everything else you say into doubt, because everything else you say is the word of someone who doesn’t learn from his own mistakes.