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There was never real gray area here. Either Trump is a compromised foreign agent, or he isn’t. If he isn’t, news outlets once again swallowed a massive disinformation campaign, only this error is many orders of magnitude more stupid than any in the recent past, WMD included. Honest reporters like ABC’s Terry Moran understand: Mueller coming back empty-handed on collusion means a “reckoning for the media.”

Of course, there won’t be such a reckoning. (There never is). But there should be. We broke every written and unwritten rule in pursuit of this story, starting with the prohibition on reporting things we can’t confirm.
Like then, you indeed can take it to the bank that the media will never be held to account, other than their ratings souring worse than they already have.]]> doge http://teodesian.net/posts/9ce6af54-13f4-11ec-bdd7-ee845a65204f 2019-03-23T18:17:46 Taibbi: Russiagate is this generation's WMD http://teodesian.net/posts/1553365066 anything coming out of the security services is beyond idiotic.
There was never real gray area here. Either Trump is a compromised foreign agent, or he isn’t. If he isn’t, news outlets once again swallowed a massive disinformation campaign, only this error is many orders of magnitude more stupid than any in the recent past, WMD included. Honest reporters like ABC’s Terry Moran understand: Mueller coming back empty-handed on collusion means a “reckoning for the media.”

Of course, there won’t be such a reckoning. (There never is). But there should be. We broke every written and unwritten rule in pursuit of this story, starting with the prohibition on reporting things we can’t confirm.
Like then, you indeed can take it to the bank that the media will never be held to account, other than their ratings souring worse than they already have.]]> doge http://teodesian.net/posts/1553365066 2019-03-23T18:17:46