Did the media get punked again (on internet search tip off)?

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5. No. TechCruch's soucing of their story appeared sketchy, but

Castalano (sp?) confirmed that the Suffolk police told her the same story. (After she first wrote about the incident.)

TechCrunch posted something that they said was on the Suffolk police website (insofar as posting a web link to something is saying you think it is on that website) that they now say, in a later clarification, they got via email from the Suffolk Police, niot from the website, hence the confusion. They posted a png that was purporting, in the context of the presentation, to be a screen capture from a website, but was not.

A minor thing when explained, but to anyone who tried to find the press release cited before the clarification, it was nowhere to be found, and it appeared that something sketchy was up. (It was something sent to press people who inquired, but not a general press release)

But since the target later said the Suffolk police told her the same thing, it appears the techcrunch story was 99% accurate, despite linking to a press release that wasn't there.

She was questioned about web searches. She says she did not know, and was not told, the source of the information. She jumped to a conclusion and published it. She was later informed (by Suffolk police) as to the real source of the information about her searches.

We found out through the Suffolk Police Department that the searches involved also things my husband looked up at his old job. We were not made aware of this at the time of questioning and were led to believe it was solely from searches from within our house.

I did not lie or make it up. I wrote the piece with the information that was given. What was withheld from us obviously could not be a part of a story I wrote based on what happened yesterday.

The piece I wrote was the story as we knew it with the information we were told. None of it was fabricated. If you know me, you know I would never do that.

If it was misleading, just know that my intention was the truth. And that was what I knew as the truth until about ten minutes ago. That there were other circumstances involved was something we all were unaware of.

Thank you.

http://openareas.tumblr.com/post/57110075747/clarification-and-update

Really nothing too mysterious on either side. She jumped to a bad conclusion and published. TechCrunch posted a harmlessly misleading non-link.