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"news that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is headed home without issuing new charges is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media." taibbi.substack.com/p/russiagate-i…
"Imagine how tone-deaf you’d have to be to not realize it makes you look bad, when news does not match audience expectations you raised."
"Either Trump is a compromised foreign agent, or he isn’t. If he isn’t, news outlets once again swallowed a massive disinformation campaign, only this error is many orders of magnitude more stupid than any in the recent past, WMD included."
"This has been a consistent pattern throughout #Russiagate. Step one: salacious headline. Step two, days or weeks later: news emerges the story is shakier than first believed. Step three (in the best case) involves the story being walked back or retracted by the same publication"
"After writing, “Confessions of a Russiagate Skeptic,” poor Blake Hounsell of Politico took such a beating on social media, he ended up denouncing himself a year later."
"The Russiagate era has so degraded journalism that even once “reputable” outlets are now only about as right as politicians, which is to say barely ever, and then only by accident."
'Here a reporter might protest: how would I know? ... How about because, authorities have been lying their faces off to reporters since before electricity! doesn’t take much to realize the main sources in the Russiagate mess... have extensive records of deceiving the media.'
