ProPublica Head Defends BuzzFeed’s Release of ‘Unverified’ Dossier

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Sam Dorman
January 18th, 2017 4:24 PM
Buzzfeed showed its lack of journalistic integrity last week by publishing an unverified dossier accusing President-elect Trump of communicating with Russian operatives. After BuzzFeed published the document on Jan. 10, even liberal news outlets including The Washington Post, the Atlantic and Vox criticized Buzzfeed’s choice. But ProPublica President Richard Tofel sided with Buzzfeed, giving it “…
 

American Univ. Prof: 'Russian Meddling' Must Mean 'A New Election'

Tom Blumer
January 13th, 2017 3:15 PM
Here we go again. A month ago, Robert Baer, a leading coddler of Iran who is an "Intelligence and Security Analyst" while pontificating at CNN, contended that alleged Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election meant that the nation needs "to vote again." Now The Hill has given space to Chris Edelson, an assistant professor of government in American University's School of Public…
 
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ABC Writes Off Trump’s Defense, Highlights KGB 'Blackmail Tactics'

Nicholas Fondacaro
January 13th, 2017 12:22 AM
ABC seemed to be holding out hope Thursday evening on World News Tonight that BuzzFeed’s salacious accusations against President-elect Donald Trump were true. “The Russians and Trump have angrily denounced the allegations as completely false, including the unverified claim that Trump was secretly recorded when he visited Moscow,” declared Brian Ross giving the impression that the president-elect…
 
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‘Hardball’ Panel Skewers BuzzFeed: ‘It’s Certainly Not Journalism’

Nicholas Fondacaro
January 11th, 2017 11:56 PM
Claws came out Wednesday night on MSNBC’s Hardball as host Chris Matthews aired a half-hour long special dedicated to digging into the absurdity of BuzzFeed News publishing “salacious fake news” regarding President-elect Donald Trump. Matthews, who is known for his own outrageous statements, seemed incredibly disturbed by the whole situation. He at one point declared, “It’s certainly not…
 
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NBC: Intel Officials ‘Don’t Believe’ Trump Dossier; ‘Political Junk'

Kyle Drennen
January 11th, 2017 3:41 PM
During NBC’s special live coverage of Donald Trump’s press conference on Wednesday, reporter Cynthia McFadden revealed that U.S. intelligence officials deemed rumors of a Russian dossier of damaging information about the President-elect to not be credible. She explained to NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt: “...as far as they are concerned, and I’m going to quote now, ‘Intel and law enforcement…
 
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Nets Jump on BuzzFeed Sleaze; Russia Dominates Press Conference

Scott Whitlock
January 11th, 2017 1:53 PM

The unverified claims pushed by BuzzFeed on Tuesday dominated Donald Trump’s press conference on Wednesday with numerous reporters pouncing on what the President-elect attacked as “fake news.” NBC reporter Hallie Jackson demanded to know about the allegations of Russian blackmail: “Does Russia have any leverage over you, financial or otherwise, and if not, will you release your tax returns to…

 
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CBS, ABC Wake Up to Idea That Maybe Russia Didn’t Make Hillary Lose

Scott Whitlock
January 6th, 2017 12:48 PM
CBS This Morning and ABC’s Good Morning America on Friday awoke to the concept that maybe Russia didn’t cause Hillary Clinton to lose the presidential election. CBS co-host Norah O’Donnell observed, “It’s true, actually, that the Clinton campaign spent more money in Georgia and Arizona  than Wisconsin and Michigan. That's a fact.”