From the morning the mass media informationThey are circulating a story, which, as everything shows, is far from reality. His David Gewirtz ZDNet examines how the AP created a legend about it Hillary Clinton. What happened and everything went wrong?
In the morning you started showing a story about Hillary Clinton as breaking news. It all started with a publication of his Associated Press που υποστήριζε ότι η κα. Hillary Clinton (ή, μάλλον, κάποιος από το προσωπικό της) “έτρεχε ένα δικό της ηλεκτρονικό σύστημα για το επίσημο e-mail her” from her family home in Chappaqua, New York.
So while the news may have been of the formula:
Hillary Clinton used a personal e-mail account during her tenure as Secretary of State, instead of the special address issued by the government, undermining efforts to archive official government documents.
Hillary Clinton was found to run her own mail server through her home ....
At 8:09 a.m. the AP published: "CLINTON RAN OWN COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR HER OFFICIAL EMAILS." In it, the AP claimed that not only was Clinton running a server, but that she also used a fake ID, namely "Eric Hoteham" to register the domain name
Later, the AP changed the story quite a bit. The title was: "HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBPOENAS CLINTON EMAILS IN BENGHAZI PROBE."
Eric Hoteham had even disappeared, like a typographical error. But even so, the damage had been done.
The name "Eric Hoteham" became a meme all over the internet, and when the AP found out that there was in fact one of Clinton's staff named "Eric Hothem", it quickly updated the article (time stamp 17:52), but did not absolutely no mention of the fact that the content of the article had changed.
In fact, the AP changed the title of the article once again. At 3:15 a.m., the title was "CLINTON RAN HOMEBREW COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR OFFICIAL EMAILS."
If you want to compare, here is one capture by Evernote with the original article 03.05 am, a second capture on 08.09 am. and a third, this time at 17: 52 with the same story highly revised.
By the way, the AP states "This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed."
What's even more ironic about this story is that the publication's newest version refers to the uproar it caused by stating, “A parody of an account on Twitter for Hoteham appeared on Wednesday when AP reported the news, sending out satirical tweets supporting Hillary Clinton's campaign.”
Again, in the first version of this story, the AP described Hoteham (the spelling mistake) as "a mysterious identity, named Eric Hoteham." In the second version of the story, the AP introduced him as a supporter of Clinton, who had provided her with technical advice in the past.
The AP continued throughout this situation, “The Hoteham personality is also linked to a separate email server, presidentclinton.com, and a non-functional website, wjcoffice.com, all linked to the same Internet account that serves as a server. Mrs. Clinton. In the second version of the story, the AP changed "Hoteham Personality" to "Hoteham subscription."
What effect does all this have on Clinton? Hard to say. Let the search engines speak better. A Google search for the "mysterious" "Eric Hoteham" since the story was released leads to at least 27.800 results. The next day, when the AP changed its story (but did not tell anyone), "Eric Hoteham" was on 46.400 results. Without counting the results of Facebook and Twitter.
