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Yes, it was a mistake. it was a subject of headlines and head-scratching and nothing -- a white house that's being investigated, they just love when some mistake is made, because then they denounce all of journalism. well, look at the end of the story. in the end, it didn't matter all that much. in a perfect world, no journalist's story would ever be wrong at all. but it's going to happen. the question is, do they clean up their act afterwards? i can't tell you how appalled the people "the post" were and people in the democratic committee. they were very upset about it. but in the scheme of th...

Didn't matter all that much. >> david corn, your reaction to the buzzfeed story tonight, and its parallels to that woodward and bernstein mixup, mistake, back in their big days of covering richard nixon. >> well, now we know that what they reported, carl and bob, you know, ended up being true. though, as they note, they got the attribution wrong, and it gave the nixon white house and their detractors ammunition to go after them. what we don't know yet is whether buzzfeed got it right, but somehow screwed -- you know, screwed up the attribution or there was some miscommunication here. but what ...

>> david corn, your reaction to the buzzfeed story tonight, and its parallels to that woodward and bernstein mixup, mistake, back in their big days of covering richard nixon. >> well, now we know that what they reported, carl and bob, you know, ended up being true. though, as they note, they got the attribution wrong, and it gave the nixon white house and their detractors ammunition to go after them. what we don't know yet is whether buzzfeed got it right, but somehow screwed -- you know, screwed up the attribution or there was some miscommunication here. but what do know, to get to elizabeth'...