Thread by @bywillpollock

Judge Jackson caught Barr lying about Mueller so WHEN DO RETRACTIONS HAPPEN

2 above papers are Murdoch rags but end result is identical: AMERICAN MEDIA UNCRITICALLY TYPED UP AN OBVIOUS LIE

https://twitter.com/CREWcrew/status/1391067924039970816?s=20

not to be outdone CBS News lit a jaunty roaring fire behind TFG's consigliere 1 month after he lied to America #ForReasons

https://twitter.com/bywillpollock/status/1134227241804677120?s=20

#BarrCoverUp was trending at the time cuz WE TRIED TO TELL YOU DOT COM

https://twitter.com/bywillpollock/status/1115024539115819010?s=20

national media types are a stubborn bunch

https://twitter.com/bywillpollock/status/1186666102572625928?s=20

Peter Baker was Bill Barr's personal stenographer

WHEN ARE THE RETRACTIONS @nytimes

think about how SPECTACULARLY WRONG Peter Baker was here:

- no cloud lifted
- no powerful boost
- TWO impeachments followed
- zero attribution to Barr

like Mike Flynn's Turkey story Baker's article was PR agitprop

🚨 NEWS ORGS BLITHELY REPEATED "NO COLLUSION" *1 MONTH BEFORE MUELLER REPORT RELEASE*
@MelissaJPeltier @DavidManOnFire @sisu_sanity @clearing_fog @YDanasmithdutra @dianesbaker1 @ninatypewriter @sprzyslp @Tentoads4truth @LongAsUCan2 @1D_Nasty @ericgarland crankyyank.com/2019/03/25/bar…

my post highlights

- @TerryMoran
- @ggreenwald
- @edokeefe
- @nytdavidbrooks
- @CNN & @Politico

all of whom debased craft of journalism with sweeping conclusions about a document THEY HAD NOT SEEN

ready for apologies when you are

crankyyank.com/2019/03/25/bar…

that day Barr lied is burned in my brain like a cattle brand

https://twitter.com/xeni/status/1110568345210769408?s=20

gobbling up spin like hungry puppies is not journalism

https://twitter.com/ZerlinaMaxwell/status/1110233369906954240?s=20

while on-break from boosting Newsmax Terry Moran tweeted breathing-mask disinfo

NOBODY DURING COVID WONDERED THIS

day after #BarrCoverUp Chicago Trib was WAY too declarative but *at least* printed attribution to trump's mob consigliere

Virginia @page88 brings us full-circle to 2016;

FALSELY EXONERATING POLITICIANS IS NOT A JOB OF OUR COUNTRY'S NEWS MEDIA

https://twitter.com/page88/status/1391363741284016128?s=20

@page88 ALSO NOT A U.S. JOURNALISM JOB: VLADIMIR PUTIN PUBLIC RELATIONS

NYT headlines are 2.5 years apart