Greets and saluts from the snowy NYC metro area. Let’s just say I’m not thrilled about the snow, but it does look pretty while it’s falling.

Not pretty? That’d be the state of reporting about tech issues like the AP report claiming that Clinton ran a basement server for her email. You’d think that the AP would run that by someone who knows something about how these things work, instead of using a jump to conclusions mat to decide that something appeared to be improper.

Once other media outlets began running the story, they piled on without doing any actual fact-checking themselves to see if the AP report was correct. After all, this is a wire news service that thousands of media outlets use worldwide. If the AP got basic facts wrong, it will take time for the retraction to work its way around the world (if at all, and certainly not among the right wing conspiracy nutters who think impeachment the moment the name Clinton comes up).

And that’s where we’re at. The AP appears to have misstated/misunderstood basic facts about the Clinton email setup, but that reporting has worked its way into everything else.