New in PJ Media:
There couldn’t possibly be a clearer example of media perfidy and dishonesty: back in May 2017, the Washington Post published a story about how President Trump supposedly urged Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats and National Security Agency Director Adm. Michael S. Rogers to deny that there was any evidence that he had colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign. There was just one catch: the story was false, and Rogers said as much to the FBI as far back as June 2017. Yet not only did the Post not take the story down; it’s still up, eight years later and long after the Russian Collusion hoax has been definitively debunked.
The story was one of many in the Post about Trump’s much-publicized collusion with Russia that won the Post the Pulitzer Prize. And apparently that was all that mattered. Truth? Accuracy? Integrity? Come on, man!
The story, along with the rest about the alleged Russian Collusion, sold papers, and made the WaPo seem as if it was once again on the cutting edge of investigative journalism. The Post was even fearlessly taking on a president of the United States, recalling the heady days of Watergate when Woodward and Bernstein bearded the wily Tricky Dick, became Redford and Hoffman, and made the Post into one of the leading newspapers in the left’s constellation of propaganda organs.
The opportunity to relive the glory days was apparently too much for the Post, and overrode all other considerations. As Matt Margolis noted Sunday, “it’s unclear whether the Post knew Rogers disputed their report before publishing it, but Rogers made it clear to investigators shortly afterward that the story was false.”
Did Rogers, or the FBI, notify the Post also that the story was false? That is unclear, but the WaPo should have made it its business to know. It was, after all, a newspaper, and not just any newspaper, but one that was leading the covering of the allegations of collusion against the sitting president. Did the Post have no contact with Rogers despite the fact that its story was about him? Did it have no contacts in the FBI? Or was the story just too good, too damning of Trump, for the Post to be all that concerned about accuracy?
Worst of all, at least for the Post’s image as a news source, is the fact that the story is still up. You can find it here. To be sure, Just the News only published the revelation that Rogers had told the feds that the story was false on Thursday, and it’s based on Crossfire Hurricane documents that were just released. Maybe the WaPo will retract and apologize for the story this week.
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WPM says
The lie that would not die. To this day ,because Trump will not give endless aid to the Ukraine for an endless war that cannot be won by the Ukraine without other countries(European or American troops) giving there lives Trump is called a” Russian asset” by many .As the Ukraine is running out of people and thousands of young Russians and Ukrainian young people die ,Americans who would refuse to serve or who would not want to send their children into that meat gender wave Ukrainian flags and call Trump a “Russian asset” in the MSM. Or hint that he is a “good friend of the leaders of both Russia and North Korea ” because he will not publicly berate them in public. Would the MSM want a third world war it seems that way. Are the governments of both Russia and North Korea terrible yes there are many terrible governments all over the world we have to deal with them one at a time. We can use trade ,we can use diplomacy ,we have to compromise ,we cannot use going to war with everyone especially a world power like Russia .We knew this in the cold war that lasted over 40 years. We knew this with the Cuban missile crisis that was over 60 years ago .It is time to renew these skills ,and not listen to the MSM lies that could push America into a third world war.
WPM says
not meat gender meat ,grinder
it is a strange funny mistake .
Westman says
Bezos didn’t buy the WaPo in 2018 to report the news, it was purchased to continue creating political news and first impressions. That he hasn’t called for an honest, full- blown, retraction of the 2017 Russian Collusion Hoax yet sucks up to Trump for Amazon and China should be a warning signal for Trump.
Anyone who has “progressive” liberal relatives knows the “Russian collusion” hoax and many others were super-glued to their brains at the first hearing.