{"id":64918,"date":"2023-01-31T19:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T00:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64918"},"modified":"2023-01-31T19:27:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T00:27:45","slug":"prestigious-liberal-watchdog-condemns-new-york-times-russiagate-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64918","title":{"rendered":"Prestigious Liberal Watchdog Condemns New York Times&#8217; Russiagate Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__Eyn7V\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__MEgbb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/prestigious-liberal-watchdog-condemns-new-york-times-russiagate-coverage\">Prestigious Liberal Watchdog Condemns New York Times&#8217; Russiagate Coverage<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__t4rGu\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__6iJOI NodeBody_container__hI8PI\">\n<p>The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) has issued a scathing indictment of the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0for yellow journalism during the Trump-Russia saga.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/nyt%20banner.jpg?itok=ENO3XSHI\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/nyt%20banner.jpg?itok=ENO3XSHI\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/nyt%20banner.jpg?itok=ENO3XSHI\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"b1edb50e-2bb0-40f1-b98f-2b49480d8c0c\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In short,\u00a0<strong>the hyper-partisan &#8216;paper of record&#8217; was operating in bad faith<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s wasn&#8217;t just the<em>\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0either. CJR&#8217;s findings accurately reflect what most objective thinkers have known this whole time &#8211;\u00a0<strong>they were\u00a0<em>all\u00a0<\/em>operating in bad faith<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1620525872326516737&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmarkets%2Fprestigious-liberal-watchdog-condemns-new-york-times-russiagate-coverage&amp;sessionId=8604a291354340127656b90329a4a6375eded4b3&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=aaf4084522e3a%3A1674595607486&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1620525872326516737\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>That said, CJR aimed the majority of criticism towards the\u00a0<em>NYT<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No narrative did more to shape Trump\u2019s relations with the press than Russiagate. The story, which included the Steele dossier and the Mueller report among other totemic moments, resulted in Pulitzer Prizes as well as embarrassing retractions and damaged careers,&#8221; wrote CJR executive editor Kype Pope in an editor&#8217;s note.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The findings were published in a lengthy, four-part series. The first section begins with a story about then-New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet\u2019s reaction when he found out Special Counsel Robert Mueller didn\u2019t plan to pursue Trump\u2019s ousting, telling his staff &#8220;Holy s&#8212;, Bob Mueller is not going to do it.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/liberal-columbia-journal-review-offers-scathing-indictment-new-york-times-russiagate-coverage\">Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Baquet, speaking to his colleagues in a town hall meeting soon after the testimony concluded, acknowledged the Times had been caught \u2018a little tiny bit flat-footed\u2019 by the outcome of Mueller\u2019s investigation,&#8221; according to Jeff Gerth &#8211; the author of CJR&#8217;s lengthy retrospective.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That would prove to be more than an understatement,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But neither Baquet nor his successor, nor any of the paper\u2019s reporters, would offer anything like a postmortem of the paper\u2019s Trump-Russia saga, unlike the examination the Times did of its coverage before the Iraq War.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Gerth, the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0destroyed its credibility outside of its &#8220;own bubble.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=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&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1620434059678846977&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmarkets%2Fprestigious-liberal-watchdog-condemns-new-york-times-russiagate-coverage&amp;sessionId=8604a291354340127656b90329a4a6375eded4b3&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=aaf4084522e3a%3A1674595607486&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1620434059678846977\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prestigious Liberal Watchdog Condemns New York Times&#8217; Russiagate Coverage The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) has issued a scathing indictment of the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0for yellow journalism during the Trump-Russia saga. In short,\u00a0the hyper-partisan &#8216;paper of record&#8217; was operating in bad faith. It&#8217;s wasn&#8217;t just the\u00a0Times\u00a0either. CJR&#8217;s findings accurately reflect what most objective thinkers have known this [&hellip;]<\/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":[33654,249,5437,33656,462,1426,1921,33655,655,15282],"class_list":["post-64918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-columbia-journalism-review","tag-edward-snowden","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-jeff-gerth","tag-journalism","tag-misinformation","tag-new-york-times","tag-partisanship","tag-propaganda","tag-russiagate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64918","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=64918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64919,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64918\/revisions\/64919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}