Since morning the media has been releasing a story, which as it all seems to be far from reality. David Gewirtz's ZDNet examines how the AP created a legend about it Hillary Clinton. What happened and everything went wrong?
In the morning, a story about Hillary Clinton began to appear as breaking news. It all started with an Associated Press article claiming that Ms. Hillary Clinton (or, rather, one of her staff) "ran her own electronic e-mail system" through her family home in Chappaqua, New York.
So while the news may have been of the formula:
Hillary Clinton used a personal email account during her tenure as secretary of state, rather than the special address issued by the government, thereby 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 publication claimed that not only did Clinton run a server, but that she also used a fake identity, that is, she used the name “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By the way, the AP states "This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed."
Even more ironic in this story is that the latest version of the post refers to the upset caused by stating, "A parody of a Twitter account for Hoteham appeared on Wednesday when the AP reported the news, sending satirical tweets in support of its campaign. Hillary Clinton. ”
Again, in the first version of this story, the AP described Hoteham (the misspelling) as "a mysterious identity, named Eric Hoteham." In the second version of the story, AP introduced him as a Clinton supporter who provided her with techniques tips 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 this all have on Clinton? Hard to say. Let the machines speak better searchs. A Google search for the "mysterious" "Eric Hoteham" since the story broke returns at least 27.800 results. The next day, when AR changed its story (but didn't tell anyone), "Eric Hoteham" was in 46.400 results. Not counting Facebook and Twitter results.
