Its to late they can't put the genie back in the bottle....
So the lie goes around the world and is repeated every hour on the hour by the BBC as well as Al Jazeera etc. Then the "oops, we were wrong" will be a 5 second update buried deep on Saturday night and never to be repeated.
Okey-dokey, then.
Typical day's work for the media. And they wonder why they have slipped into complete irrelevance.