Lefty Columbia Journalism Review Slams NYT, CNN, WashPost et al for Lies, Lies, Lies
Oh, no they di'int!...
Far-left journalism “watchdog”, The Columbia Journalism Review, issued a scathing indictment of The New York Times, Washington Post, and all of the leftist mainstream outlets for their completely dishonest coverage of the Trump-Russiagate scandal. The mainstream media led the assault day after day willfully spreading what they knew to be complete lies about Trump, his family, his associates, and his business, and weak-minded readers ate it up hook, line and sinker:
NY Times, Washington Post, CNN willfully spearheaded much of the debunked Trump-Russia collusion narrative
The liberal media watchdog the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) published a wide-ranging retrospective of the media’s Russiagate coverage that examined several news organizations and their various roles throughout the Trump-Russia saga, leveling the most criticism toward The New York Times.
“No narrative did more to shape Trump’s relations with the press than Russiagate. The story, which included the Steele dossier and the Mueller report among other totemic moments, resulted in Pulitzer Prizes as well as embarrassing retractions and damaged careers,” CJR executive editor Kyle Pope wrote in an editor’s note.
Pope explained that the CJR spent the past 18 months “examining the American media’s coverage of Trump and Russia in granular detail” to determine what it means as Americans inch closer to the 2024 election.
The findings were published in a lengthy, four-part series. The first section begins with a story about then-New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet’s reaction when he found out Special Counsel Robert Mueller didn’t plan to pursue Trump’s ousting, telling his staff “Holy s—, Bob Mueller is not going to do it.”
“Baquet, speaking to his colleagues in a town hall meeting soon after the testimony concluded, acknowledged the Times had been caught ‘a little tiny bit flat-footed’ by the outcome of Mueller’s investigation,” wrote Jeff Gerth, the investigative reporter who authored the lengthy CJR retrospective.
“That would prove to be more than an understatement,” Gerth continued. “But neither Baquet nor his successor, nor any of the paper’s reporters, would offer anything like a postmortem of the paper’s Trump-Russia saga, unlike the examination the Times did of its coverage before the Iraq War.”
Quote: “Before the 2016 election, most Americans trusted the traditional media and the trend was positive…Today, the US media has the lowest credibility—26 percent—among forty-six nations”
Quote: Reading this entire thread, you can understand why Trump called the media the Enemy of the People. It wasn’t isolated journalists; it was entire organizations. What I wish someone would do is put out a comprehensive list of all of the journalists so we can avoid their reporting.
RE: Lefty Columbia Journalism Review Slams NYT, CNN, WashPost et al for Lies, Lies, Lies
The article was written by Jeff Gerth, who has been around the block a few times (born 1944) and has, at various times, upheld the Democrat/Progressive agenda, and at other times contradicted it. He worked for the New York Times for several years, and I remember when the Clinton White House specifically barred him — as an individual — from one of Mrs Clinton’s press conferences, because they didn’t like some of the articles he had written.
RE: Lefty Columbia Journalism Review Slams NYT, CNN, WashPost et al for Lies, Lies, Lies
Now that the agenda of making sure Trump did not get re-elected has been completed, it is much easier to go after those who were fully engaged in that mission.
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