Category: Media

Preview of Coming Attractions

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Law Enforcement versus the Intel Community. That’s the battle we will likely see unleashed when the Horowitz report comes out next week. The New York Times came out Saturday with info clearly leaked from DOJ that can be summarized simply–the FBI was relying on the intel community (products from the CIA and NSA) under the leadership of Jim Clapper. If they relied on bad, unverified information it ain’t their fault. They trusted the spies.

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Update: Watch the blame game begin!

It’s All in the Framing

Look at how the Toronto Star’s Andrew Phillips begins an editorial about Maxime Bernier:

As a journalist I’ve interviewed and “platformed” hundreds, maybe thousands, of people in dozens of countries. Many of them were appalling.

They included murderers and terrorists. An IRA hit man in Belfast who wasn’t shy about describing his killings. Politicians and generals who were later found guilty of carrying out genocide in Bosnia. Literal neo-Nazis in Germany and the politicians who fronted for them.

Just imagine how self-satisfied this “journalist” must be. 🙁

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

We are all Russian now.

It’s not investigative reporting – it’s an intentional misinformation campaign and you’ll be hearing it everywhere this month: “The Russians are tweeting! the Russians are tweeting! Trust only your Liberal Pravda.”

He’s a lawyer, I trust he’ll put that to use.

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

A Columbia Journalism Review poll released this year found that half of all Americans have “hardly any confidence at all” in the media, which beat out even Congress as the institution for which the public has the lowest confidence. It’s not hard to see why. Last week, CNN reported that the CIA was forced to pull a highly placed source inside the Kremlin because of concerns that President Trump might burn him — when it turns out the decision to extract the source was made before Trump took office because of leaks from senior Obama administration officials.
 
Now, the New York Times has published an adapted excerpt from a new book by Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly in which they breathlessly describe a “previously unreported story” about how Max Stier, a male college classmate of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, notified senators and the FBI that he saw Kavanaugh expose himself to a girl at a Yale party and that “friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student.”
 
One small problem: In the book, Pogrebin and Kelly write that the female student in question “refused to discuss the incident” and that “several of her friends said she does not recall it.” That calls the entire allegation into question. Yet the Times did not include this vital information in the excerpt it published.

More, via Ed Driscoll.

And then there’s this.

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