http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2021/11/12/its-all-crashing-down-glenn-greenwald-embarrasses-wapo-for-essentially-retracting-their-entire-russiagate-story/
Wow, WaPo, THIS was bad.
ErikWemple ~ The Washington Post has attached editor's notes to stories on Sergei Millian, the supposed source for the Steele dossier whose contributions thereto were called into question by the indictment of Igor Danchenko.
Oh, and by the way ... Erik Wemple works for The WaPo.
Keep in mind, these a-holes won PULITZERS for this.
Sort of like Andrew Cuomo receiving an Emmy …
They’re just awful.
Glenn Greenwald really dropped the hammer on them:
Glenn Greenwald ~ Another major editor's note attached to a Washington Post Russiagate story (see others):
http://washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say/2016/11/24/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html & http://washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-hackers-penetrated-us-electricity-grid-through-a-utility-in-vermont/2016/12/30/8fc90cc4-ceec-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html).
This one is essentially a retraction. There's no way that major media outlets can keep evading this accountability. It's crashing down.[/i]
It is indeed crashing down.
But who will hold them accountable? We have yet to see any of them suffer any real consequences for pushing … wait for it ... FAKE NEWS. And this story was of course the fakest of them all.
Glenn Greenwald ~ The Washington Post just retracted two major stories it published on the Steele Dossier with the perhaps unprecedented step of removing huge parts of the articles and re-writing them. Yet it still refuses to say who lied to make them publish this.
{Cont.} The scope of the media's Russiagate fraud is only starting to be appreciated. @mtaibbi has called it "this generation's WMDs" in terms of media malfeasance. Look at how extreme their conduct now is in trying to clean it up - reflecting what a huge, sustained fraud this was:
Huge sustained fraud.
Shameful.
Wesley Yang ~ Perhaps there will be a reckoning after all?
Glenn Greenwald ~ I think they'll just quietly add notes like this and then move on. The advantage they have is that they're all guilty outside of right-wing media, so they all have a common interest in memory-holing it as soon as possible, and they will.
Katherine Brodsky ~ Does the presence of a correction at all mean that there's hope for accountability in the future?
Glenn Greenwald ~ I mean, it's better than no retraction/correction, but they usually do it only when absolutely forced to.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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