Steve Berman:
I’m no apologist for President Trump. But the New York Times has put itself, once again, in a horrible position in reporting an anonymously-sourced story about a meeting between Donald Trump, Jr. and a Kremlin-connected lawyer.
This isn’t the first time they Gray Lady has cried “Wolf!”
Just last week, the NYT and AP corrected their previous and widely-reported claim that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies agreed that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election in an attempt to help Donald Trump’s candidacy.
In February, the NYT claimed that phone records and “intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election.”
James Comey, under oath, directly refuted the NYT story. And the NYT reported on itself, without issuing a correction.
Answering a question about the Times article during an appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mr. Comey said that “in the main, it was not true.”
Instead of engaging in self-examination, the very reporters who gathered the anonymously-sourced stories pressed to know exactly what was wrong with their initial report. Comey did not, and could not without violating the FBI’s security and his own disclosure agreements, answer that.
But “in the main, it was not true” doesn’t mean, “it’s true with some problems.” It means it’s false, with some elements of truth.
The NYT continues to report in this manner: That it’s got the story mostly true. Yet time after time, their reports end up as “nothing-burgers” or embarrassing falsehoods promulgated by people with a political agenda.
It would seem to emerge (as we all know) that the NYT itself has a political agenda. They want to take down President Trump. The main stream media’s echo chamber of the NYT, Washington Post, CNN and MSNBC are hell-bent for leather to see Trump fall.
And the harder they try, the less credibility they have.
They keep crying “Wolf!” over and over when there’s no wolf there. In this latest report, what version of events should we believe? The hint may be in the small details. Today, the NYT, in a follow-up story to the original report, noted a correction.
“Leadership is a gift. It’s given by those who follow. You have to be worthy of it.”
— Mark Welsh
applies to media also.
One wonders if there is any way the media can ever rebuild their credibility. One also wonders if the media even cares.
anonymously-sourced stories are garbage. it is obvious that the slime has forgotten the creed of a journalist-always be able to back up one’s story with facts, facts and more fact. todays media has it roots with ted turner and the delivery of news right or wrong-for ratings only.
It was the new York Slimes(All the Crap that’s fit to print)that covered up for the crimes of the Communists and the Nazis playing lip service for Castro and is 99% B.S.
You can look at any of the press “greats” and see a collection of propagandists for their own particular views. The news has always been slanted. At first by the owners and chief editors. Now the kids on the floor are let loose and, without any idea of an impartial reporting of news, produce stories that please the editors above or get a video out on YouTube. The way McCarthy was treated is a perfect example of how the press treats those who go against the flow and it was done by a press that leaned red.
By red I mean the ORIGINAL use for our enemies.
@M0S #8541: They haven’t forgotten. It’s just that those principles get in the way of the liberal agenda.
@Deplorable Me:
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@Bill… Deplorable Me:
I can answer that. The media only ‘cares’ about one thing. Pushing the liberal agenda, regardless how bad it makes the US look in the eyes of the world. None of them have any pride in doing a good job. They have their agenda and that’s it. It doesn’t matter that they constantly get embarrassed in the eyes of regular people and the rest of the world. When they come up with some phony story, which they think makes the conservatives look bad, then they have been successful because their success is only measured by their image in the eyes of the liberal socialist. Self respect plays no part.