{"id":28778,"date":"2017-12-12T07:54:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T12:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28778"},"modified":"2017-12-12T07:54:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T12:54:46","slug":"russia-gates-litany-of-corrections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28778","title":{"rendered":"Russia-gate\u2019s Litany of Corrections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russia-gate\u2019s Litany of Corrections<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Exclusive:<\/strong> As much as the U.S. mainstream media insists that the Russia-gate scandal is growing, what is undeniably growing is the list of major corrections that news outlets have been forced to issue, reports Robert Parry.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. mainstream media\u2019s year-long hysteria over Russia\u2019s alleged role in the election of Donald Trump has obliterated normal reporting standards leading to a rash of journalistic embarrassments that have both disgraced the profession and energized Trump\u2019s backers over new grievances about the MSM\u2019s \u201cfake news.\u201d\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Misguided groupthink is always a danger when key elements of the Washington establishment and the major news media share the same belief \u2013 whether that is Iraq\u2019s supposed possession of WMD or the need to bring down some foreign or domestic leader unpopular with the elites.<\/p>\n

Yet, we have rarely witnessed such a cascading collapse of journalistic principles as has occurred around the Russia-gate \u201cscandal.\u201d It is hard to keep track of all the corrections or to take note of all the dead ends that the investigation keeps finding.<\/p>\n

But anyone who dares note the errors, the inconsistencies or the illogical claims is either dismissed as a \u201cKremlin stooge\u201d or a \u201cTrump enabler.\u201d The national Democrats and the mainstream media seem determined to keep hurtling down the Russia-gate roadway assuming that the evidentiary barriers ahead will magically disappear at some point and the path to Trump\u2019s impeachment will be clear.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the rush to finally prove the Russia-gate narrative led CNN \u2014 and then CBS News and MSNBC \u2014 to trumpet an email supposedly sent from someone named Michael J. Erickson on Sept. 4, 2016, to Donald Trump Jr. that involved WikiLeaks offering the Trump campaign pre-publication access to purloined Democratic National Committee emails that WikiLeaks published on Sept. 13, nine days later.<\/p>\n

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Russia-gate\u2019s Litany of Corrections Exclusive: As much as the U.S. mainstream media insists that the Russia-gate scandal is growing, what is undeniably growing is the list of major corrections that news outlets have been forced to issue, reports Robert Parry. The U.S. mainstream media\u2019s year-long hysteria over Russia\u2019s alleged role in the election of Donald […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3849,135,145,6963,7844,5524,442,471,496,512,8213,7203,15282,865,880,3236],"class_list":["post-28778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cbs","tag-cia","tag-cnn","tag-consortium-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-groupthink","tag-iraq","tag-kremlin","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-msnbc","tag-robert-parry","tag-russiagate","tag-washington","tag-wikileaks","tag-wmds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28779,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28778\/revisions\/28779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}