I was too crass here. I think they made the wrong calls but these things are not simple.
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1316417794456645633
The reality is no journalist should be having to deal with potential misinformation and foreign intervention. The people ultimately to blame here are dirty tricksters, not solid reporters trying to figure out how to fairly deal with this stuff.
I have the luxury of not having to write a newsletter multiple times a day and also have spent a lot of time thinking about things like the dossier and hacked emails. I don't know what call I'd make in a different situation.
One drum I have been beating for a long time is that the Wikileaks emails were actually *edited and altered* That's been underdidscussed. The online news biz is really focused on speed but we have to tread carefully with this sort of thing.
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