The phrase "an erroneous report" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a report that contains mistakes or inaccuracies.
Example: "The committee had to address the issues raised by an erroneous report that misrepresented the data."
Alternatives: "a false report" or "an inaccurate report."
Not far from where Casey stood, the Swedish caddie Fanny Sunesson began to cry after a reporter for a major golf publication passed on an erroneous report that Ballesteros had died.
"Earlier tonight we tweeted out an erroneous report about the Jags acquiring Tim Tebow," it read.
The Practical Traveler column on Aug. 29, about finding low air fares, included an erroneous report from Southwest about the availability of its tickets online.
President Trump on Sunday morning lashed out at ABC News, two days after an erroneous report by investigative journalist Brian Ross involving the president.
An article on Friday about the use of cruise ships to house hurricane relief workers included an erroneous report from Carnival Cruise Lines on a provision of its contract with the federal government.
Correction: September 19 , 2004 Sunday The Practical Traveler column on Aug. 29, about finding low air fares, included an erroneous report from Southwest about the availability of its tickets online.
Volusia The Canvassing Board was advised during the evening of Nov. 7, 2000, that a malfunction of the diskette in the electronic ballot tabulating machine in precinct 216 caused an obviously erroneous report of the results in the presidential vote from that precinct.
Logan has been suspended by CBS for her part in a grossly erroneous report on the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
In the case of Anderson Cooper it's even worse because he also works for 60 Minutes over at CBS, which is recovering from airing a grossly erroneous report about the attack on the Benghazi consulate.
There's a fair chance that some of us would remember at least one instance of a television news channel apologizing for a never-happened erroneous report or finding an online story to be a hoax, moments after it went viral.
After the erroneous report of a capture, CNN's reporters and anchors seemed to have taken a deep breath and proceeded with caution.
