Thread by @redsteeze

The central question no journalist is touching here still seems to be are the emails real or not? Why aren’t they attempting to answer this?

https://twitter.com/benyt/status/1317942587513278471

There are lots of stories about the story. Those are neat. But not a lot of work checking to see if the story is accurate or not. Not a lot of journalists seem interested in confronting that one, which is itself a fascinating media story @benyt

I’m fully willing to believe and retweet any story from any outlet that pokes holes in the facts and the legitimacy of the emails. But no one has done that yet. That seems odd to me.

Lots of other stories about Rudy and the NY Post and Fox and Twitter and so on. But oddly none that show the reporting to be misleading.

I've seen a lot of stories going after Rudy and Bannon go after the laptop repair store, the laptop repair guy, go after Fox News, go after the New York Post itself. All fair.

None that have shown the emails to be faked or are misleading or misinformation. That's weird to me.

It seems to me that the easiest way to make the New York Post eat shit on this is not through anonymous gossip or innuendo, but to prove the information they reported on is completely false. But we're not seeing that @benyt

And again, fulling willing to stipulate it could all be misinformation and be a Russian psy-op and and the emails are faked and Rudy is batshit crazy (mostly true). But no one is actually showing this. They are doing everything else it seems but answering this. That's odd.

That leaves the only other option: The emails are true. So what then? Are we no longer firefighters rushing to the story? Does truth to power go right out the window? Of course it does, because no journalists wants to be the leper in their industry should Trump win. @benyt

Twitter just slapping a “misleading” label on a story without explaining what in the story is misleading and nothing proving to be misleading should be unacceptable to any journalist who cares about their own work or reputation. But they are just siding with Twitter. Why is that?