{"id":29372,"date":"2018-01-03T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T20:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29372"},"modified":"2018-01-03T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T20:08:10","slug":"the-washington-post-also-misreported-cnns-false-wikileaks-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29372","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post Also Misreported CNN\u2019s False WikiLeaks Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post Also Misreported CNN\u2019s False WikiLeaks Story<\/a><\/h3>\n
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I left on holiday just as the news was breaking about multiple mainstream media outlets independently reporting a spectacularly false story<\/a> about WikiLeaks, Donald Trump and Russiagate, and I was pleased to return to find they\u2019d received their much-deserved beatdown for it. One fact that doesn\u2019t seem to have received any attention however is the fact that the Washington Post<\/em>, who broke the story<\/a> about CNN\u2019s journalistic scandal, itself grossly distorted the truth to slander WikiLeaks in its own coverage.<\/p>\n

In what The Intercept<\/em>\u2019s Glenn Greenwald called<\/a> \u201cone of the most embarrassing days for the U.S. media in quite a long time,\u201d a breaking story which was sent into immediate virality by CNN and was then independently (and falsely) corroborated by MSNBC and CBS, reporting that someone had emailed Donald Trump Jr with a decryption key allowing him to preview an impending leak drop from WikiLeaks. By the time all the facts were in it turned out that the real story, in its entirety, was that some random guy had emailed Trump notifying him of a Guccifer 2.0 release (not even WikiLeaks<\/a>) that had already been published.<\/p>\n

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Obviously Donald Trump Jr receiving an innocuous email about a publication already in existence is not a news story by any stretch of the imagination. It was exactly as newsworthy as it would have been if you, dear reader, had once sent an email to Don Jr informing him of Hillary Clinton\u2019s leaked remarks<\/a>about Palestinian election rigging.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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