{"id":57676,"date":"2021-05-05T06:35:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T11:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57676"},"modified":"2021-05-05T06:35:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T11:35:51","slug":"corporate-news-outlets-again-confirm-the-same-false-story-while-many-refuse-to-correct-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57676","title":{"rendered":"Corporate News Outlets Again “Confirm” the Same False Story, While Many Refuse to Correct it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Corporate News Outlets Again “Confirm” the Same False Story, While Many Refuse to Correct it<\/a><\/h3>\n

Journalists with major outlets know they spread a false, retracted story about the FBI and Giuliani but refuse to remove it, because their real job is spreading disinformation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rudy Giuliani appeared before the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan on December 2, 2020 (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY \/ AFP) (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

One of the primary plagues<\/strong>\u00a0of corporate journalism, which I have\u00a0documented<\/a>\u00a0more times\u00a0than I can count<\/a>, just reared its ugly head again to deceive millions of people with fake news. When one large news outlet publishes a false story based on whispers from anonymous security state agents with the CIA or FBI, other news outlets quickly purport that they have \u201cindependently confirmed\u201d the false story, in order to bolster its credibility (oh, it must be true since other outlets have also confirmed it<\/em>).<\/p>\n

This is an obvious scam \u2014 they have not \u201cindependently confirmed\u201d anything but rather merely acted as servants to the same lying security state agents who planted the original false story \u2014 but they do it over and over, creating the deceitful perception that a fake story has been “confirmed\u201d by multiple outlets, thus bolstering its credibility in the public mind. It was the favored tactic for spreading debunked Russiagate frauds and is still used. One of the most vivid examples occurred in December, 2017, when\u00a0CNN<\/em>\u00a0falsely reported<\/a>\u00a0what it hyped as “a major bombshell\u201d: that Donald Trump, Jr. had advance access to the WikiLeaks archive. Within an hour,\u00a0NBC News<\/em>\u2019 Ken Dilanian and\u00a0CBS News<\/em> both claimed they had \u201cindependently confirmed\u201d this fairy tale…<\/p>\n

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Corporate News Outlets Again “Confirm” the Same False Story, While Many Refuse to Correct it Journalists with major outlets know they spread a false, retracted story about the FBI and Giuliani but refuse to remove it, because their real job is spreading disinformation. Rudy Giuliani appeared before the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan […]<\/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":[169,3717,2779,301,5437,496,512,1426,655,20086],"class_list":["post-57676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-corporate-media","tag-disinformation","tag-fake-news","tag-fbi","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-rudy-giuliani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57676","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=57676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57677,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57676\/revisions\/57677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}