I guess Axios is claiming that its scoop isn't wrong because Rosenstein offered to resign to Kelly. But that's not how they characterized it on social media and their scoop wouldn't have gotten half as much traction if they'd hedged more. 
Been plenty of times at 538, especially in our early years, when we had an article with a fairly nuanced/subtle conclusion, but where we got "burned" by an incautious headline or tweet that didn't hold up well. But guess what: We wrote the headline! We deserved the criticism.
p.s. I've said this before, but people should be assigning about 95% of the blame here to editors, not to reporters/writers. Editors dictate how stories are framed and how solid the story must be before it's published.
