{"id":42985,"date":"2019-01-20T11:33:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T16:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42985"},"modified":"2019-01-20T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T16:34:30","slug":"msm-begs-for-trust-after-buzzfeed-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42985","title":{"rendered":"MSM Begs For Trust After Buzzfeed Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MSM Begs For Trust After Buzzfeed Debacle<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Following what the Washington Post<\/em> has described<\/a> as \u201cthe highest-profile misstep yet for a news organization during a period of heightened and intense scrutiny of the press,\u201d mass media representatives are now flailing desperately for an argument as to why people should continue to place their trust in mainstream news outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday Buzzfeed News<\/em> delivered the latest \u201cbombshell\u201d Russiagate report<\/a> to fizzle within 24 hours of its publication, a pattern that is now so consistent that I\u2019ve personally made a practice of declining to comment on such stories until a day or two after their release. \u201cBOOM!\u201d tweets were issued by #Resistance pundits on Twitter, \u201cIf true this means X, Y and Z\u201d bloviations were made on mass media punditry panels, and for about 20 hours Russiagaters everywhere were riding the high of their lives, giddy with the news that President Trump had committed an impeachable felony by ordering Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a proposed Trump office tower in Moscow, a proposal which died within weeks and the Kremlin never touched<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was reason enough already for any reasonable person to refrain from frenzied celebration, including the fact that the story\u2019s two authors, Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier, were giving the press two very different accounts<\/a> of the information they\u2019d based it on, with Cormier telling CNN that he had not personally seen the evidence underlying his report and Leopold telling MSNBC that he had. Both Leopold and Cormier, for the record, have already previously suffered a Russiagate faceplant<\/a>with the clickbait viral story that Russia had financed the 2016 election, burying the fact that it was a Russian election<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MSM Begs For Trust After Buzzfeed Debacle Following what the Washington Post has described as \u201cthe highest-profile misstep yet for a news organization during a period of heightened and intense scrutiny of the press,\u201d mass media representatives are now flailing desperately for an argument as to why people should continue to place their trust in mainstream news outlets. On […]<\/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":[19081,17039,2779,496,3847,512,815,5228],"class_list":["post-42985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-buzzfeed","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-fake-news","tag-mainstream-media","tag-mass-media","tag-media","tag-trust","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42985","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=42985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42987,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42985\/revisions\/42987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}