For what it's worth, BuzzFeed News is standing by its reporting. It's also worth noting that the Special Counsel's statement disputed the reporting's "description of specific statements" and "characterization of documents and testimony," leaving in question the extent to which the overall reporting may have been accurate or inaccurate.

1/21/2019 12:45:38 PM

I would also note that, although I didn't see every news report covering the BuzzFeed story, the media outlets that I observed emphasized the fact that they had not been able to verify BuzzFeed's reporting.

1/21/2019 3:53:52 PM

Lol. Even Buzzfeed wasn't able to verify the Buzzfeed story.

1/22/2019 12:50:38 PM

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/20/media/buzzfeed-ben-smith-anthony-cormier/index.html

Quote :

"'We're being told to stand our ground. Our reporting is going to be borne out to be accurate, and we're 100% behind it,' investigative reporter Anthony Cormier told CNN's Brian Stelter on 'Reliable Sources' Sunday... Cormier, who wouldn't reveal his sources when asked, said the story had been in the works for months and went through a 'rigorous' vetting process. The story was reviewed by at least three editors, [BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben] Smith said."

1/22/2019 2:37:47 PM

I mean, the special counsel has already described it as inaccurate. But I guess we will see.

1/22/2019 3:44:49 PM

he did not say the conclusions and broader point were inaccurate

1/22/2019 3:47:38 PM

The Media Botched the Covington Catholic Story
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/media-must-learn-covington-catholic-story/581035

I Failed the Covington Catholic Test
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/julie-irwin-zimmerman-i-failed-covington-catholic-test/580897

Stop Trusting Viral Videos
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/viral-clash-students-and-native-americans-explained/580906

The Trump-Era Overcorrection
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/covington-overcorrection/580987

1/23/2019 10:09:27 PM

Quote :

"OMG LIBERAL MEDIA THREAD !!!! WOO WOO WOO, LOOK AT ME!!!!!!!!!!!"

Most underrated response.

Also, I think it's hilarious that the thread author has essentially fled for the last 8+ years. I guess trumptruck was a bridge too far.

1/30/2019 11:37:28 PM

Buddy, almost everyone from tww has "fled"

1/31/2019 7:11:13 AM

I find it hard to believe that the VA Republican gubernatorial election campaign did not dig that blackface/kkk picture up. How was that missed? I mean wouldn't be oppo research 101 to dig up all yearbooks of the opposition candidate?

I also find it hard to believe that the media itself didn't did that up.

2/4/2019 10:51:48 AM

a few people have said they did see it but couldn't verify it so they didn't use it

2/4/2019 10:59:36 AM

Yea but just like we saw last week, it wouldn't have needed verification. Someone from Gillespie's camp would have just needed to toss it out there, associate the page with Northam, and let the people do what they do. It would've ended him before he got started. Interesting that didn't happen. Guess they were trying to keep it above-board.

2/4/2019 11:05:09 AM

"Verify" it?? That's so 20th century.

2/4/2019 11:25:36 AM

CNN is trying to fabricate a controversy by lying and saying that Rep. Omar yelled at and angrily replied to CNN correspondent Manu Raju despite the video clearly showing nothing of the sort

the new left has the establishment so shook

2/15/2019 9:49:02 AM

Quote :

"Lara Logan Slams Media For Becoming Left-Wing "Propagandists" With "Horseshit" Low Standards"

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/02/19/lara_logan_hits_media_for_becoming_left-wing_propagandists_horseshit_low_standards.html

Worth it for the video alone. But this quote is pretty striking.

Quote :

" "The media everywhere is mostly liberal. Not just in the U.S. But in this country, 85 percent of journalists are registered Democrats. So that’s just a fact, right?... So the facts are on the side of what you just stated. Most journalists are left or liberal or Democrat or whatever word you want to give it. I always joke about the other 14 percent were too lazy to register. And there’s maybe one percent that’s on the right.""

2/19/2019 1:29:48 PM

ahahahhahaahahaahhhahaa

2/19/2019 1:36:45 PM

https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/26/us/cbs-lara-logan-benghazi-leave/index.html

2/19/2019 1:40:34 PM

Man, good hire by CNN! That’ll show we have no political bias! Maybe Jeff Sessions can host the 9pm hour!

https://twitter.com/whignewtons

[Edited on February 20, 2019 at 10:24 AM. Reason : Lol of course she is a Seth Rich truther too]

2/20/2019 10:16:54 AM

hire some socialists please

2/20/2019 11:48:06 AM

I’m asking this question in earnest but was the run-up to 2016 election investigations in to Benghazi and EMMAIIILLLSS by the GOP-controlled Congress covered as “will the overreach hurt them” or was it just about the investigations.

Anecdotally it almost always seems that the MSM falls directly into the GOP narrative.

3/5/2019 7:40:54 AM

It's a bigotry of low expectations. It's political brilliance if Republicans manage to wipe their ass and put on pants. If Democrats don't roll a 300, it's a total disaster and the end of American liberalism.

3/5/2019 1:09:17 PM

Mainstream media's bullshit has been especially difficult to put up with this week. None of these authors are legitimate journalists. I think all of these corporate news outlets are trash but know there are a lot of people on here who respect them so I want to start keeping receipts of their antics.
[link]https://web.archive.org/web/20190505220126/https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/05/americas/venezuela-military-helicopter-crash/index.html[/link]

Quote :

"It comes as pressure is mounting on Maduro to step down, following elections in January in which voters chose opposition leader Juan Guaido over him for president."

The elections they mentioned never happened. The 6 collaborators knew this but had a mission to fulfill. They fixed it over a day later. Of course CNN takes the cake when it comes to fake news.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/death-toll-rises-as-gaza-militants-fire-more-than-400-rockets-into-israel-and-israel-responds-with-airstrikes/2019/05/05/e1a981be-6eee-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html?utm_term=.56a9c2f59ed8

Quote :

"Four Israeli civilians were killed, the first from rocket fire from Gaza since 2014, and 23 Palestinians died."

Israelis = civilians and get "killed"
Palestinians =/= civilians and just "die"



https://lasvegassun.com/news/2019/apr/30/suspect-in-synagogue-attack-stuns-family-with-radi/
 

Quote :

"The man accused of opening fire inside a Southern California synagogue was an accomplished student, athlete and musician whose embrace of white supremacy and anti-Semitism has dumbfounded his family and others who thought they knew him well."

No one saw this coming! He was such a great kid!

This was an AP story removed from yahoo but also posted on many news sites with the same headline that the AP later withdrew

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/05/07/americans-spend-thousands-on-nonessentials/39450207/
'Americans are wasting money on things like lunch, personal grooming, and transportation. '

Tone-deaf articles like this reinforce the anti-working class elitism of the media. Your insurance doesn't cost too much, your wages aren't too low, and if you only completed stopped this "bad habit" of enjoying anything, you'd be able to barely scrape by.



https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/05/tyts_john_iadarola_cnn_poll_showing_biden_in_the_lead_sample_statistically_insignificant_number_of_voters_under_50.html
CNN and the rest of the media lying about the polls by misrepresenting data. They use this as a weapon to create fake momentum for the candidate that will protect their interests.

Quote :

"On Tuesday there was a CNN poll showing Biden at 39, Sanders at 15, and Warren at 8. That is not only a big lead for Biden over Sanders, it is also a big jump for Biden, who had generally been in the high 20s, occasionally 30-31. That's a big jump, but I want to show you the actual demographic breakdown in the poll. The text is very small and there's a lot of stuff there, but what you will notice immediately is there's a lot of N/As. And the N/As are in the category of people between the ages of 18-34 and 35-49. Now, a lot of people noticed that. That does not mean that they didn't have any respondents in those ages, they did. It just means that there weren't enough of them to consider it to be a representative sample for opinions held by those people, there just weren't enough of them. Overall it means that the results are going to be a good bit biased because what you are really polling is not people, it is the oldest age groups in America. Is it a shock that they might prefer Joe Biden over some of the other candidates? Again, it doesn't mean that he didn't experience some sort of bump, or that the bump might not be sustainable, but the headlines never said, "Joe Biden Gets Big Bump In Poll Of Septuagenarians," it says "Joe Biden Up Big," pack this thing in, it's done..."

[Edited on May 9, 2019 at 2:43 AM. Reason : k]

5/9/2019 2:40:16 AM

https://nypost.com/2019/05/08/chappaquiddick-special-shows-the-media-cant-let-go-of-kennedy-myth/

5/9/2019 10:11:33 AM

Hey, how about not calling this a “social media summit” you ignorant fucks.

7/11/2019 10:37:13 AM

7/17/2019 8:14:49 AM

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1151604046534455298

Quote :

"Crazy how CNN's "randomly selected woman Republican voters" keep turning up the same people"

look at the link in the pics, CNN keeps bring on this group of women who call themselves the Trumpettes of America and asking them what they think about things

CNN hosted panel of Trump’s “female supporters” to discuss his racist tweets without revealing their history of Republican activism
CNN presented the segment as a focus group-style panel on Republican women
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/07/17/CNN-hosted-panel-of-Trumps-female-supporters-to-discuss-his-racist-tweets-without-revealin/224247

Quote :

"On July 14, CNN hosted a panel of Trump’s “female supporters” to see if their opinions of Trump had changed following a series of racist tweets he directed at four freshman congresswomen. The women expressed strong support for Trump and insisted he is not racist, with one noting that he “dated a black woman for two years” and “two of his wives are immigrants” as evidence. While CNN depicted the panel as a random focus group of Republican women who support Trump, the network failed to disclose that two of them are members of the Texas Women for Trump Coalition, a group that defended Trump in media appearances after an Access Hollywood tape revealed lewd comments he had made about women. Another member of the group is the national director of Trumpettes for America, which Crooks and Liars called “a network of socialites who work to gin up support for Trump in the media.” The segment was popular with the Trump campaign, which promoted the segment from its “Trump War Room” account on Twitter:"

CNN has used these same women before, look at the pics in the twitter link

7/18/2019 8:40:53 AM

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1151847724263837697?s=21

I happen to like Jim Scuitto but this is exactly what’s wrong with the media today. Not only is this not a rebuke he literally went on to endorse the rhetoric by saying anonymous constituents tell him “the squad” hates America.

7/18/2019 9:43:12 AM

Spichard Rencer

7/19/2019 10:14:23 PM

^^^ I posted them in the Trump thread... they are repugnant and insidious

7/19/2019 10:38:22 PM

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/2020-democratic-candidates-cnn-debate/index.html
Click on Tulsi Gabbard and then come back here and claim CNN isn't #fakenews

7/21/2019 2:17:49 PM

If you click on Julian Castro, you get Cory Booker.

OH GAWD KAYNE'S GOT THU POOR-ASS COPYEDITING INTERN

7/21/2019 3:38:34 PM

https://twitter.com/jonathanweisman/status/1156516462875619329?s=21

Rightfully dragged.

Imagine being the Washington editor of the “paper of record” and saying this. Jesus. It’s closing in on white supremacist talking points.

Trump literally broke the NYT.

[Edited on July 31, 2019 at 8:37 AM. Reason : “Real Americans.” “Real Southerners.” “Real Midwesterners.”]

7/31/2019 8:35:27 AM

it's a result of the hack gap, republicans have controlled the discussion and framing of issues so much that even center or left leaning outlets have adopted their talking points

carlos maza described it:

Quote :

""Some people did something!" "But her emails!" "Benghazi!" Why does right-wing bullshit dominate the news cycle? It's called the "hack gap," and it's one of the most important imbalances in America politics."

video in tweethttps://twitter.com/gaywonk/status/1131936656918011904

Quote :

"These #DemDebate questions are a perfect example of the "hack gap." Fox News spends months arguing Democrats are moving "too far to the left," so CNN repeats that framing in their questions. Republicans control the framing of the debate."

7/31/2019 8:42:44 AM

https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1156423705452535809

CNN framed the debate so that the candidates would debate socialism.

7/31/2019 9:41:13 AM

the debates should be on CSPAN, not cable networks

7/31/2019 9:47:52 AM

^^^^

Quote :

"Earlier this morning I tried to make a point about regional differences in politics between urban and rural areas. I deleted the tweets because I realize I did not adequately make my point."

Meanwhile, in 2016

Quote :

"Defeated Dems could've tapped Rust Belt populist to head party. Instead, black, Muslim progressive from Minneapolis? https://t.co/VLfMcEtMka"

Cut to Dems winning House

7/31/2019 10:31:57 AM

How can you even begin to do anything about the “hack gap?” I mean it’s a carefully constructed ecosystem built over decades that has resulted in this.

8/1/2019 6:42:49 AM

next debate is ABC and Univision? in what ways will it be better / worse

8/3/2019 11:51:17 AM

https://twitter.com/norahodonnell/status/1158384268671881216?s=21

It’s the year 2019 and this is still happening. Unbelievable.

8/5/2019 3:14:55 PM

https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1158375056126480384

I'm not really into Beto, but gg.

8/5/2019 4:24:18 PM

He needs to turn that into a Senate campaign.

8/5/2019 5:23:12 PM

i too am motivated by the fuck word.

8/7/2019 11:27:06 AM

Quote :

"https://twitter.com/jonathanweisman/status/1156516462875619329?s=21"

(quoting from nym's link a few posts up I didn't fuck up a link! :beatup

This guy smfh
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/1159133115056627713?s=19

8/8/2019 1:12:14 PM

Brett fuckin’ Stephens

8/27/2019 11:08:26 AM

you misspelled bedbug

8/27/2019 11:54:11 AM

Feels weird to put Bret "I'm scared of twitter" stephens in "liberal" media thread. He's basically mitt Romney or Jeb bush

8/27/2019 1:11:26 PM

“The Liberal Media” is a lame bogeyman and the New York Times is one of the main targets

8/27/2019 1:19:25 PM

but he's a columnist at the "liberal" NYT

[Edited on August 27, 2019 at 1:19 PM. Reason : beat me by 6 seconds]

8/27/2019 1:19:31 PM

Quote :

"“The Liberal Media” is a lame bogeyman and the New York Times is one of the main targets"

Lol. A good article on the "beginning" of the liberal slant of the media.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-half-century-of-liberal-media-bias-1535034293

There is a plethora of research on the media's bias, just like there is a liberal bias in universities. This isn't a controversial statement.

8/27/2019 2:09:11 PM

"News" tends to be "liberal" to most right-wing conservatives. Same with education.

8/27/2019 2:17:15 PM