Ican count on one hand the times I have seen leaders of media organisations engage in anything that could be described as hard-hitting forms of self-critique in the public square.
“We decided to examine every possible regulatory change made under Trump that could be related to the accident and assess whether it could have made an impact,” read a review published Monday by Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post.
The three-step process is regime media’s MO: spread a false claim, crush dissent, then admit the truth once the news cycle achieves its purpose.
Former President Donald Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against members of the Pulitzer Prize Board on Dec. 13 after the board declined to rescind the 2018 National Reporting prizes presented to The New York Times and The Washington Post for their reporting on the debunked allegations of collusion between Trump and Russia.
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Welcome back to Forgotten Fact-Checks, a weekly column produced by National Review’s News Desk. This week, we recap years of gaslighting on Twitter shadow-banning, look at the Washington Post’s take on Shark Week, and hit more media misses.
Kessler, whose paper refused to acknowledge the authenticity of the “Laptop from Hell” for 532 days after Breitbart News’s Emma-Jo Morris broke the story at the New York Post, claimed his team at the Washington Post did not “assess the veracity” of the Hunter’s authenticated emails on the laptop because no “source” provided the Washington Post with a copy of the laptop’s hard drive.
The paper known for its slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness” should perhaps be more concerned about its own well-being after the disastrous week it had.
What story do you think would deserve to push the biggest war in Europe in nearly 80 years down from the lead news of the day? If you said the private text messages of the wife of a Supreme Court Justice, you are apparently qualified to run a major American newsroom.
That’s the leak-on-a-silver-platter news the Washington Post blared at the top of its homepage on Thursday evening.
Coverage of a dubious claim by a Washington Post columnist shows the cable network at a crossroads.
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has been dinged several times by fact-checkers over claims he has made during the coronavirus crisis, including a total of 11 “Pinocchios” from the Washington Post.
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