The headline image is from the BBC story Russia-Trump: Who’s who in the drama to end all dramas?
The BBC names the key players, but it missed one: the media.
On December 9, Glen Greenwald at the Intercept reported The U.S. Media Suffered Its Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages and Now Refuses All Transparency Over What Happened.
I covered the story in Trump Accuses CNN of Purposeful Fake News “Fraud on American Public”.
In a nutshell, three news outlets, starting with CNN and followed by MSNBC broke a bombshell story on Trump that false. CBS jumped on the bandwagon but later blamed CNN.
Supposedly, multiple, credible sources said Trump had access to Wikileaks information on Russia before Wikileaks posted it.
The story timeline was false.
Coverup Begins
Days later, CNN refuses to disclose its sources or say what happened.
Greenwald blasted CNN in a Tweet again today.
Slate notes that because CNN & MSNBC completely refuse to provide even the most minimal transparency about how they got their big story so wrong, we still don’t know the answer to the key question – and probablynever will, since they’re burying it: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/12/medias-wikileaks-trump-jr-email-date-screwup-still-unexplained.html …
We Still Don’t Know Why Three Different Outlets “Confirmed” the Same Bogus Russia Story Last Week
Why did so many “sources” suddenly confuse the numbers 14 and 4?
slate.com
How Did It Happen?
“None of the outlets disclosed anything about the identities and/or motivations of the sources—and there are supposedly at least two of them!—who made such a consequential error of reading comprehension.
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