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LINK Columbia Journalism Review Russiagate Post-Mortem Is a Good Start | Opinion | fairfieldsuntimes.com

"Without much fanfare, earlier this week Jeff Gerth, a Pulitzer-Prize winning former New York Times investigative reporter, dropped a thorough and damning four-part article dissecting the media’s obsessive reporting on Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia. Even more surprising, Gerth’s report, “The press versus the president,” appeared at the in-house organ of America’s most prestigious journalism school, Columbia Journalism Review, which has long been regarded as something of an unofficial ombudsman for the media industry.

If CJR is finally comfortable admitting that the media’s Russiagate reporting was so scandalously bad that it damns the entire industry, that seems like a remarkable admission.

On Twitter, Glenn Greenwald, a left-leaning reporter who made some significant career sacrifices for calling out the media’s bogus reporting on this topic, declared Gerth’s reporting “absolutely devastating on how casually, frequently, recklessly and eagerly the press lied on Russiagate.” Gerth lays out what happened so clearly that it’s hard to imagine fair-minded readers who make it through all 24,000 words of Gerth’s report would conclude any differently. Personally, I’m proud to say that the work of RealClearInvestigations – and my colleagues there, Tom Kuntz, Aaron Mate, and Paul Sperry – are all cited favorably by Gerth as one of the few media outlets that consistently got the story right."

WilliamCharles 8 Feb 6
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Russiagate, like 9/11 Truthers, was a theory sans evidence or logic from the get go. But Americans, the most propagandized people on Earth, treat their favorite "news" headlines as gospel.

Russiagate is/was BS but then so is the official 9/11 narrative.

@WilliamCharles Yes, there's just zero evidence nor logical reason to believe anything else.

@Druvius - the physics of the official narrative is unsupportable. Steel frame buildings do not fall at near freefall speeds through the path of greatest resistance.

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