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The U.S. Media Suffered Its Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages: Now Refuses All Transparency...
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 3061440" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/12/09/the-u-s-media-yesterday-suffered-its-most-humiliating-debacle-in-ages-now-refuses-all-transparency-over-what-happened/" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2017/12/09/the-u-s-media-yesterday-suffered-its-most-humiliating-debacle-in-ages-now-refuses-all-transparency-over-what-happened/</a></p><p></p><p>Rather lengthy; too long to paste the whole story, and the pictures are important as well. Read the whole thing.</p><p>(h/t to <a href="http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Peter</a>)</p><p></p><p>Excerpts:</p><p></p><p><u>Friday was one</u> of the most embarrassing days for the U.S. media in quite a long time. The humiliation orgy was kicked off by CNN, with MSNBC and CBS close behind, with countless pundits, commentators and operatives joining the party throughout the day. By the end of the day, it was clear that several of the nation’s largest and most influential news outlets had spread an explosive but completely false news story to millions of people, while refusing to provide any explanation of how it happened.</p><p></p><p>The spectacle began on Friday morning at 11 a.m. EST, when the Most Trusted Name in News™ spent 12 straight minutes on air flamboyantly hyping an exclusive bombshell report that seemed to prove that WikiLeaks, last September, had secretly offered the Trump campaign, even Donald Trump himself, special access to the DNC emails <em>before</em> they were published on the internet. As CNN sees the world, this would prove collusion between the Trump family and WikiLeaks and, more importantly, between Trump and Russia, since the U.S. intelligence community regards WikiLeaks as an “arm of Russian intelligence,” and <em>therefore</em>, so does the U.S. media.</p><p></p><p>This entire revelation was based on <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/939214967210987520" target="_blank">an email</a> which CNN strongly implied it had exclusively obtained and had in its possession. The email was sent by someone named “Michael J. Erickson” — someone nobody had heard of previously and whom CNN could not identify — to Donald Trump, Jr., offering a decryption key and access to DNC emails that WikiLeaks had “uploaded.” The email was a smoking gun, in CNN’s extremely excited mind, because it was dated September 4 — 10 days <em>before</em> WikiLeaks began promoting access to those emails online — and thus proved that the Trump family was being offered special, unique access to the DNC archive: likely by WikiLeaks and the Kremlin.</p><p>...</p><p>The email was not dated September 4, as CNN claimed, but rather September 14 — which means it was sent <em>after</em> WikiLeaks had already published access to the DNC emails online. Thus, rather than offering some sort of special access to Trump, “Michael J. Erickson” was simply some random person from the public encouraging the Trump family to look at the <em>publicly available</em> DNC emails that WikiLeaks — as everyone by then already knew — had <a href="https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/775823293781794816" target="_blank">publicly promoted</a>. In other words, the email was the exact opposite of what CNN presented it as being.</p><p>...</p><p><u>Why does this matter so much?</u> For so many significant reasons:</p><p></p><p>To begin with, it’s hard to overstate how fast, far and wide this false story traveled. Democratic Party pundits, operatives and journalists with huge social media platforms predictably jumped on the story immediately, announcing that it proved collusion between Trump and Russia (through WikiLeaks). One tweet from Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu, claiming that this proved evidence of criminal collusion, was re-tweeted thousands and thousands of times in just a few hours (Lieu quietly deleted the tweet after I noted its falsity, and long after it went very viral, without ever telling his followers that the CNN story, and therefore his accusation, had been debunked).</p><p>...</p><p>Incredibly, to this very moment — almost 24 hours after CNN’s story was debunked — Wittes has never noted to his more than 200,000 followers that the story he so excitedly promoted turned out to be utterly false, even though <a href="https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/with_replies" target="_blank">he returned to Twitter long after the story was debunked</a> to tweet about other matters. He just left his false and inflammatory claims uncorrected.</p><p>...</p><p>How can journalists and news outlets so flamboyantly act offended when they’re attacked as being “Fake News” when <em>this</em> is the conduct behind which they hide when they get caught disseminating incredibly consequential false stories?</p><p></p><p>The more serious you think the Trump/Russia story is, the more dangerous you think it is when Trump attacks the U.S. media as “Fake News,” the <em>more</em> you should be disturbed by what happened here, the more transparency and accountability you should be demanding. If you’re someone who thinks Trump’s attacks on the media are dangerous, then you should be first in line objecting when they act recklessly and demand transparency and accountability from them. It is debacles like this — and the subsequent corporate efforts to obfuscate — that have made the U.S. media so disliked and that fuel and empower Trump’s attacks on them.</p><p>...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Seriously, read the whole thing, and spread it around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 3061440, member: 13624"] [URL]https://theintercept.com/2017/12/09/the-u-s-media-yesterday-suffered-its-most-humiliating-debacle-in-ages-now-refuses-all-transparency-over-what-happened/[/URL] Rather lengthy; too long to paste the whole story, and the pictures are important as well. Read the whole thing. (h/t to [URL='http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/']Peter[/URL]) Excerpts: [U]Friday was one[/U] of the most embarrassing days for the U.S. media in quite a long time. The humiliation orgy was kicked off by CNN, with MSNBC and CBS close behind, with countless pundits, commentators and operatives joining the party throughout the day. By the end of the day, it was clear that several of the nation’s largest and most influential news outlets had spread an explosive but completely false news story to millions of people, while refusing to provide any explanation of how it happened. The spectacle began on Friday morning at 11 a.m. EST, when the Most Trusted Name in News™ spent 12 straight minutes on air flamboyantly hyping an exclusive bombshell report that seemed to prove that WikiLeaks, last September, had secretly offered the Trump campaign, even Donald Trump himself, special access to the DNC emails [I]before[/I] they were published on the internet. As CNN sees the world, this would prove collusion between the Trump family and WikiLeaks and, more importantly, between Trump and Russia, since the U.S. intelligence community regards WikiLeaks as an “arm of Russian intelligence,” and [I]therefore[/I], so does the U.S. media. This entire revelation was based on [URL='https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/939214967210987520']an email[/URL] which CNN strongly implied it had exclusively obtained and had in its possession. The email was sent by someone named “Michael J. Erickson” — someone nobody had heard of previously and whom CNN could not identify — to Donald Trump, Jr., offering a decryption key and access to DNC emails that WikiLeaks had “uploaded.” The email was a smoking gun, in CNN’s extremely excited mind, because it was dated September 4 — 10 days [I]before[/I] WikiLeaks began promoting access to those emails online — and thus proved that the Trump family was being offered special, unique access to the DNC archive: likely by WikiLeaks and the Kremlin. ... The email was not dated September 4, as CNN claimed, but rather September 14 — which means it was sent [I]after[/I] WikiLeaks had already published access to the DNC emails online. Thus, rather than offering some sort of special access to Trump, “Michael J. Erickson” was simply some random person from the public encouraging the Trump family to look at the [I]publicly available[/I] DNC emails that WikiLeaks — as everyone by then already knew — had [URL='https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/775823293781794816']publicly promoted[/URL]. In other words, the email was the exact opposite of what CNN presented it as being. ... [U]Why does this matter so much?[/U] For so many significant reasons: To begin with, it’s hard to overstate how fast, far and wide this false story traveled. Democratic Party pundits, operatives and journalists with huge social media platforms predictably jumped on the story immediately, announcing that it proved collusion between Trump and Russia (through WikiLeaks). One tweet from Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu, claiming that this proved evidence of criminal collusion, was re-tweeted thousands and thousands of times in just a few hours (Lieu quietly deleted the tweet after I noted its falsity, and long after it went very viral, without ever telling his followers that the CNN story, and therefore his accusation, had been debunked). ... Incredibly, to this very moment — almost 24 hours after CNN’s story was debunked — Wittes has never noted to his more than 200,000 followers that the story he so excitedly promoted turned out to be utterly false, even though [URL='https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/with_replies']he returned to Twitter long after the story was debunked[/URL] to tweet about other matters. He just left his false and inflammatory claims uncorrected. ... How can journalists and news outlets so flamboyantly act offended when they’re attacked as being “Fake News” when [I]this[/I] is the conduct behind which they hide when they get caught disseminating incredibly consequential false stories? The more serious you think the Trump/Russia story is, the more dangerous you think it is when Trump attacks the U.S. media as “Fake News,” the [I]more[/I] you should be disturbed by what happened here, the more transparency and accountability you should be demanding. If you’re someone who thinks Trump’s attacks on the media are dangerous, then you should be first in line objecting when they act recklessly and demand transparency and accountability from them. It is debacles like this — and the subsequent corporate efforts to obfuscate — that have made the U.S. media so disliked and that fuel and empower Trump’s attacks on them. ... Seriously, read the whole thing, and spread it around. [/QUOTE]
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