If foreign hackers working for, say, Iran or Venezuela or China hacked into the Trump Organization and obtained authentic & incriminating docs and gave them to media outlets with the explicit goal of defeating Trump, does anyone think media outlets would hesitate to report them?
https://twitter.com/glennkesslerwp/status/1316355821056536577
Journalists have one core function: to provide the public with true information about powerful people and entities that pertains to the public interest.
The minute they start promulgating guidelines to allow them to abstain or refrain from doing that, journalism is corrupted.
The minute they start promulgating guidelines to allow them to abstain or refrain from doing that, journalism is corrupted.
It’s appropriate for partisan bloggers or operatives to use Twitter to try to bully, coerce, shame journalists out of reporting negative information on their candidate. That’s their role.
Just like it’s the role of journalists not to let Twitter popularity shape their reporting.
Just like it’s the role of journalists not to let Twitter popularity shape their reporting.
The view that many journalists have internalized — they behaved improperly by reporting on the FBI criminal probe into Hillary and/or the contents of the leaked emails — is utter bullshit. That was relevant, newsworthy information & it would have been shameful not to report it.
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