Article snippet: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders sparred heatedly with reporters Monday over errors made by media outlets in recent stories on MORE. In a fiery exchange with CNN’s Jim Acosta, a frequent critic of the White House, Sanders disputed the notion that news outlets had made “honest mistakes” in their reporting. The errors, she said, were intentional and malicious. “You cannot say it’s an honest mistake when you’re purposely putting out information you know is false,” Sanders said. Playboy’s White House correspondent, Brian Karem — a CNN contributor and one of the administration’s frequent foils — tried to interject, but Sanders shut him down. “I’m not finished,” she said. “It’s not an honest mistake when you are purposely putting out information that you know to be false or when you’re taking information that hasn’t been validated, that hasn’t been offered any credibility and that has been continually denied by a number of people, including people with direct knowledge of an incident,” Sanders said. Asked to provide evidence of the media running with information it knew to be wrong, Sanders cited ABC News’s suspension of Brian Ross, for wrongly reporting that Trump had directed former national security adviser Michael Flynn to make contact with Russian officials before the election. “There’s a very big difference between making honest mistakes and purposefully misleading the American people,” Sanders said. Acosta disputed the notion that reporters we... Link to the full article to read more