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It seems that the top honchos at ABC News think that they and the White House is one and the same. The mindset is that if the White House corrects a story and ABC News repeats that, that constitutes a statement on behalf of ABC News. That seems to be his argument, isn't it? If so that's an interesting look into their world view.
I'll bet there are a fair number of well-trained journalists at ABC News who really feel burned about now.