3 Major Outlets Backtrack On A Rudy Giuliani Story

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  1. Joe Riley

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    NewserJohn JohnsonMay 4, 2021, 1:22pm

    "Three major news organizations misfired on a Rudy Giuliani story last week, and media writer Paul Farhi of the Washington Post digs into what went wrong".

    "Two big factors: "Competitive pressures" and anonymous sources. Farhi's own newspaper was the first to report the would-be scoop: The Post said the FBI briefed Giuliani in 2019, before he traveled to Ukraine, that he was being used as part of a Russian disinformation campaign to discredit then-candidate Joe Biden".

    "Giuliani ignored the warning and went anyway, according to the piece. Soon, the New York Times and NBC News reported they had confirmed the story. Since then, all three outlets—the Post, the Times, and NBC—have published corrections to remove the assertion that Giuliani received any such warning".

    "The story was widely disseminated (including at Newser, which has corrected its version.) "

    “We weren’t rigorous enough,” Times editor Dean Baquet tells Farhi. “I think we all tend to drop our guard when we get beat and are trying to catch up." He added that "we’ve all discussed it, corrected it, and we need to do better." Farhi notes that Giuliani didn't return reporters' calls when asked for comment before the stories were published, but that was probably because his devices had been confiscated in an FBI raid. Journalist Glenn Greenwald, meanwhile, has issued a scathing indictment of "corporate journalism" over the controversy. "When one large news outlet publishes a false story based on whispers from anonymous security state agents with the CIA or FBI, other news outlets quickly purport that they have 'independently confirmed' the false story," he writes. Except they're not confirming anything, just acting "as servants to the same lying security state agents who planted the original false story," he writes".
     
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    The mainstream media has become nothing but spreaders of propaganda and lies. Nothing they say can be believed.
     
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    No, they drop their guard whenever they get a story that will advance the leftist agenda, yet there are no limits to their caution when the opposite is true. As long as it furthers the agenda, facts don't matter.
     
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    All people will remember is the first impression. The stain can never be washed away. That is the intent.

    It is a tactic, not a mistake.
     
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