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1/3: Let’s get real about what the media got wrong and right about Trump-Russia coverage. And, no, #Russiagate isn’t this generation’s WMD. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
2/3. Fresh off Bill Barr’s summaries of the Mueller report, the Steele dossier is back in vogue. And it’s being put to the same uses: misleading the public about the roots of the Mueller probe and the roots of much of the Trump-Russia media coverage: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
3/3 Anybody using the Steele dossier as an excuse to write off tons of great Trump-Russia reporting — or the Mueller probe itself — is doing so because they haven’t done their homework or they want to look the other way: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Barr has now released two letters clarifying and grossly muddling our understanding of Mueller’s Trump-Russia probe — putting the DOJ’s reputation in play and starting a media backlash that’s instructive, worth taking seriously, and ultimately a diversion: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
This whole thread from @emptywheel on @mtaibbi's Vox interview is on point:
The things you write when you’re skating along, fact-free, making up parts of as it as you go:
