The Intercept, @ryangrim, and @nathanTbernard most of all owe an apology (and a retraction) to the Bates College student journalists they defamed. It’s utterly ridiculous:
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1451296749025366022
It's simply impossible for The Intercept to defend Nathan Bernard's fraudulence. So they're going to continue obfuscating and hope that an insufficient number of people notice this revelation of blatant journalistic misconduct. That's their only tactic
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1451545226842103809
Bernard and The Intercept were in such a big rush to "scoop" a story about a small liberal arts college in Maine, that just went off a faulty activist press release without bothering to verify anything -- thereby proliferating false, defamatory information mtracey.substack.com/p/to-suit-its-…
Ryan Grim also proliferated false information on "The Rising" YouTube show, claiming that a Bates College newspaper article was "edited by the administration," which according to the student journalists in question is false: THEY are the ones who edited it
On "The Rising" show, Grim says the Bates College episode constitutes "actual indisputable political censorship" -- which is hilarious, because the very students who were purported to be "censored" vehemently dispute it! But insanely, The Intercept never bothered to contact them
The student reporter currently being slimed by Grim as an anti-union, censorship-enabling administration lackey is personally pro-union, and did the opposite of what she was alleged to have done. But now The Intercept has resorted to sliming her to cover their own asses. Shameful 
This is a ultimately a minor story, but it's also illustrative as to how so much of the media (particularly "progressive" media) operates. Repackage an activist press release, don't verify anything, and then once your false defamatory claims fall apart, either obfuscate or ignore
Hey @ryangrim @nathanTbernard any comment on this? Seems logical
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1451578582048907265
As predicted, The Intercept will not correct or retract its demonstrably false story until "prestige media" pressures them into it. Nor will Grim correct or retract the demonstrably false statements he made on The Hill. This is just how the media works
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1451739464607358977
Two days after their article was revealed to have been bogus -- all they did was re-package an activist press release without verification -- The Intercept is "doubling down" on their falsehoods, notwithstanding the misinformation this has generated across the internet. Take note
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