The Washington Post has retracted its story about Russian hackers penetrating the nation’s electricity grid with a virus found in a Burlington, Vt., electric company laptop.
“Authorities say there is no indication of that so far [that Russians had penetrated the US electric grid],” according to an editor’s note attached to a corrected version of the story on the paper’s Web site.
“The computer at Burlington Electric that was hacked was not attached to the grid,” the editor’s note read.
Read more at the NY Post
I wondered about the truth of this story, as it so conveniently came just a day or so after other recent news of Russian hacking. This is an interesting development.
A perfect example of “Fake News” from the Dept. of Misinformation. The only way this will become known is if we share the story via social media. In this case, a lie told once becomes the truth.
Since the lame stream media probably GOT this story from one of those ‘fake news’ sites they love to bash, they have imo MORE egg on their faces, by calling it true news, than those faux news sites do for initially posting it..
Now that they found it was bs the media won’t broadcast it every day like they did original story.
One basic principle of America is that with Freedom comes Responsibility. Our Media has always enjoyed, rightfully I think, the protection of Freedom of the Press. Yet the Media arrogantly, willfully, and proudly abuses this Freedom on a daily basis.
The Media People will be the first victims if the 1st Amendment is destroyed…yet they are the very ones working (by their abuses) to destroy it. I don’t mind if the stupid Liberal Media wants to destroy itself, but if the cost is the loss of the 1st Amendment…then the price is too high for the rest of us.
Which is why last year, i kept saying they no longer DESERVE to have that ‘freedom of the press’ protection.
I could not agree more. The 1st Amendment was to provide for a free and open press, not a subversive un-American propaganda machine.
The Founding Fathers never would have fought and died for what we have today. Nobody would.
(No not even the extreme liberals, as they always find others called “useful idiots” to fight and die for them. They never actually get down into the foxhole.)
I do wonder, how many (if any at all) of these liberal dimbocracks, have ever served, and if so, in what capacity…
So when will we get a retraction about Russian Hacking from the Obama administration?
Hell will freeze over before that happens.
Sigh! The Leftist rag, in the same tank with other Leftist media, completely ignores one of the most fundamental and crucial aspects of public media responsibility and ethical obligation; to CHECK THE FACTS BEFORE “REPORTING.” Okay, I will acknowledge the Post did correct their mis-reporting, but isn’t it really “fake news” when it isn’t verified prior to publication? What the Post and its fellow travellers are most concerned about is rushing to be first with any story that supports the Lefty-Looney narrative agenda, whether wholly fabricated, only partially true, or nothing other than ideologically couched opinion. The once respected, and credible, Fourth Estate, has degraded itself irretrievably by its focus on its political objectives instead of its once honorable role of watchdog for the public good. It’s disgraceful, degenerate, destructive for democracy, and for all fair-minded folk, deplorable.
Ever imo since we went to such a fast pased world of “NOW, NOW, NOW Damn it”, people stopped checking facts, before printing, cause it would mean they would have to DELAY getting stuff out to the masses.. Which could lead to someone else pipping them to the release.. That’s why they no longer fact check.
AND accountability is a thing of the past…
This is the first thing I noticed when I read the article. And many readers commented about this on more than one website, yet the author of the report didn’t. Not real smart!
Basically the employee was surfing the internet and clicked on a site that had nothing to do with business, goofing off at work!
Of course, as usual, people will remember the original claim and forget the retraction of it. Sometimes I wonder whether the MSM does this deliberately, i.e., publishes what they know to be a hoax, waits for the lie to settle into people’s minds and conversations, and then publishes the retraction, thereby getting points for “honesty” while knowing that no one will notice or remember the retraction.
Columba, this happens because the media is complety controlled by the Democratic Party, which shapes it to promote its ideology and PC standards.
Combine that delay, with any retraction they DO print, often gets buried in the back of page 17 (or at the end of the site), so few if any people see the damn thing…
WaPo — What a disgrace. All the “FAKE NEWS” and YELLOW JOURNALISM that Jeff Bezos and his billions can buy and print.
The Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column. Old media is DEAD.
When I first saw the report, I posted my belief that the laptop was NOT associated with the grid, nor even the utilities accounting system. I did receive a lot of ‘crap’ from the liberals on MSN.com. My post was well before this retraction by the Washington Post.
It is a sad commentary that the Internet is an open pipe for hackers, spam, viruses, etc. and the users have to pay for protection just to make it usable.
And since 99% of the ‘dark web’ where hacks like this and other criminal activities originate from are USED by criminals/black hats etc, imo the whole dark web needs to be eradicated somehow. I have YET to see any redeeming features of it.. WHAT SO EVER…
All of our electronic systems are vulnerable. No matter how sophisticated the safeguards are, hackers can still find ways around them. Everything we use has been designed, built, assembled and programed by human beings. Humans have overcome mountains, oceans and outer space. If humans can overcome all of that, anything made by humans can be overcome.
Which is why i keep saying the ONLY safe computers, are those NOT connected to the internet!