This morning there was a video saying carney got the reporters questions before the press conference. Well, that has been retracted.
Catherine Anaya of KPHO-TV in Phoenix claimed Carney told reporters that White House correspondents often tell him their questions ahead of time
'If only this were true,' Carney told MailOnline
Anaya later walked back her story, but said that she was asked to submit a local-news question in writing before Wednesday's White House briefing
She conceded Thursday that she shouldn't have said the practice is common
Anaya also broke protocol by telling viewers about an 'off the record' meeting with Carney
She said in a statement that she was mistaken about that also, but the statement disappeared from KPHO-TV's website in less than 30 minutes
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney denied on Thursday a television news reporter's day-old claim that reporters often 'provide the questions to him in advance,' before his daily briefings, and that he sometimes provides answers on paper before taking the podium.
WIthin hours, the Phoenix reporter at the center of a quick-drying controversy admitted she got the whole thing wrong.
Phoenix news anchor Catherine Anaya reported Wednesday night on KPHO-TV5 that in an 'off the record' meeting, Carney had told a handful of local TV reporters that White House correspondents often tell him before daily briefings what they'll be asking.
'If only this were true,' Carney told MailOnline Thursday morning.
By mid-afternoon Anaya, fresh of a Washington-to-Phoenix flight, walked parts of her story back in an email to MailOnline. But she insisted that she herself was asked to submit a question in advance for Carney on Wednesday afternoon.
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KPHO-TV anchor Catherine Anaya went to Washington to participate in a carefully managed television journalism cattle-call at the White House, and reported that Press Secretary Jay Carney's daily briefings are often just for show
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Carney denied getting a heads-up about daily briefing questions: 'If only this were true'
'As a local journalist I had no issue providing my proposed question in advance,' she told MailOnline, 'because I wanted to make sure it was an appropriate q[uestion] for a national briefing and I wanted to make sure it was appropriate for Mr. Carney.'
'ut in discussing it with a staff member the night before, we decided I would save it for the president. I was attempting to not waste national time on a local question, but in my attempt at explaining that I unintentionally made it sound like that experience applied to everyone.'
'That is my mistake,' Anaya added, 'and I own up to it.'
Meanwhile, KPHO-TV issued a separate statement attributed to Anaya, but the CBS affiliate station quickly deleted it from its website.
Assignment Editor Scott Davis told MailOnline that it 'apparently ... was not the correct statement.'
Anaya's on-air commentary remains on the website, however.
'We started here shortly after 8 o'clock with a coffee with Press Secretary Jay Carney inside his office in the West Wing,' she said on the air, before making a stunning breach of journalistic protocol by reporting on an 'off the record' meeting and airing a photo of it.
Published and yanked: The statement KPHO deleted
KPHO-TV issued this extended quote Thursday afternoon from Catherine Anaya, and then quickly withdrew it, saying in an email that 'apparently that was not the correct statement':
'It seems much had been inferred about my observations following my White House visit yesterday.
'First, I did not take notes during our coffee with Jay Carney because it was off the record. But when I referenced the meeting in my live reports I did say that it was a great opportunity to talk about the challenges of his day and how he has to be so well-versed on many topics each day.
'In my live report I also wanted to share my impression of my experience in getting a question answered during the briefing. I was indeed asked to provide my question in advance. Because my question was largely of local interest, I chose to save it for my interview with the President instead.
'My mistake was to lump that experience with my coffee meeting reference, inadvertently giving Mr. Carney credit for that when in fact it did not come from him. I regret giving anyone the impression that it was from conversation I had with Mr. Carney.
I do not attend those briefings regularly and cannot speak directly to the process for non-visiting journalists.
None of my observations stemmed from my off-the-record meeting with Jay Carney.'
'And this was off-the-record,' she reported, 'so we were able to ask him all about some of the preparation that he does on a regular basis for talking to the press in his daily press briefings. He showed us a very long list of items that he has to be well-versed on every single day.'
'And then he also mentioned that a lot of times,' Anaya added, 'unless it's something breaking, the questions that the reporters actually ask or the correspondents they are provided to him in advance.'
'So then he knows what he's going to be answering and sometimes those correspondents and reporters also have those answers printed in front of them, because of course it helps when they're producing their reports for later on.'
Catherine Anaya of KPHO-TV in Phoenix claimed Carney told reporters that White House correspondents often tell him their questions ahead of time
'If only this were true,' Carney told MailOnline
Anaya later walked back her story, but said that she was asked to submit a local-news question in writing before Wednesday's White House briefing
She conceded Thursday that she shouldn't have said the practice is common
Anaya also broke protocol by telling viewers about an 'off the record' meeting with Carney
She said in a statement that she was mistaken about that also, but the statement disappeared from KPHO-TV's website in less than 30 minutes
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney denied on Thursday a television news reporter's day-old claim that reporters often 'provide the questions to him in advance,' before his daily briefings, and that he sometimes provides answers on paper before taking the podium.
WIthin hours, the Phoenix reporter at the center of a quick-drying controversy admitted she got the whole thing wrong.
Phoenix news anchor Catherine Anaya reported Wednesday night on KPHO-TV5 that in an 'off the record' meeting, Carney had told a handful of local TV reporters that White House correspondents often tell him before daily briefings what they'll be asking.
'If only this were true,' Carney told MailOnline Thursday morning.
By mid-afternoon Anaya, fresh of a Washington-to-Phoenix flight, walked parts of her story back in an email to MailOnline. But she insisted that she herself was asked to submit a question in advance for Carney on Wednesday afternoon.
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KPHO-TV anchor Catherine Anaya went to Washington to participate in a carefully managed television journalism cattle-call at the White House, and reported that Press Secretary Jay Carney's daily briefings are often just for show
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Carney denied getting a heads-up about daily briefing questions: 'If only this were true'
'As a local journalist I had no issue providing my proposed question in advance,' she told MailOnline, 'because I wanted to make sure it was an appropriate q[uestion] for a national briefing and I wanted to make sure it was appropriate for Mr. Carney.'
'ut in discussing it with a staff member the night before, we decided I would save it for the president. I was attempting to not waste national time on a local question, but in my attempt at explaining that I unintentionally made it sound like that experience applied to everyone.'
'That is my mistake,' Anaya added, 'and I own up to it.'
Meanwhile, KPHO-TV issued a separate statement attributed to Anaya, but the CBS affiliate station quickly deleted it from its website.
Assignment Editor Scott Davis told MailOnline that it 'apparently ... was not the correct statement.'
Anaya's on-air commentary remains on the website, however.
'We started here shortly after 8 o'clock with a coffee with Press Secretary Jay Carney inside his office in the West Wing,' she said on the air, before making a stunning breach of journalistic protocol by reporting on an 'off the record' meeting and airing a photo of it.
Published and yanked: The statement KPHO deleted
KPHO-TV issued this extended quote Thursday afternoon from Catherine Anaya, and then quickly withdrew it, saying in an email that 'apparently that was not the correct statement':
'It seems much had been inferred about my observations following my White House visit yesterday.
'First, I did not take notes during our coffee with Jay Carney because it was off the record. But when I referenced the meeting in my live reports I did say that it was a great opportunity to talk about the challenges of his day and how he has to be so well-versed on many topics each day.
'In my live report I also wanted to share my impression of my experience in getting a question answered during the briefing. I was indeed asked to provide my question in advance. Because my question was largely of local interest, I chose to save it for my interview with the President instead.
'My mistake was to lump that experience with my coffee meeting reference, inadvertently giving Mr. Carney credit for that when in fact it did not come from him. I regret giving anyone the impression that it was from conversation I had with Mr. Carney.
I do not attend those briefings regularly and cannot speak directly to the process for non-visiting journalists.
None of my observations stemmed from my off-the-record meeting with Jay Carney.'
'And this was off-the-record,' she reported, 'so we were able to ask him all about some of the preparation that he does on a regular basis for talking to the press in his daily press briefings. He showed us a very long list of items that he has to be well-versed on every single day.'
'And then he also mentioned that a lot of times,' Anaya added, 'unless it's something breaking, the questions that the reporters actually ask or the correspondents they are provided to him in advance.'
'So then he knows what he's going to be answering and sometimes those correspondents and reporters also have those answers printed in front of them, because of course it helps when they're producing their reports for later on.'
