01-21-2019, 05:31 PM
(01-21-2019, 03:52 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I wouldn't consider BuzzFeed to be MSM, and I don't know how much screwing of the pooch actually occurred there. There are lots of opinions on what the statement from Mueller actually means and a lot of the reporting on it has been a little eye opening and seems to indicate their article was not entirely wrong, but got some key facts incorrect. Other reporting on the story was pretty much "according to BuzzFeed..."
Yeah, that's a huge dodge in my opinion, "according to Buzzfeed...". It's a BS way of reporting something and maintaining plausible deniability. You report on something, you're taking ownership of it, the source is immaterial once you run the story from your outlet. I could throw in the black girl killed in hate crime story as well. Not the family reporting it was a white man who killed their kid, but the instant assumption that it was a hate crime. Of course, it wasn't the white guy at all, but two black men. But hey, why wait for facts when clickbait headlines sell ads?
We've had this discussion before and I know we disagree, but to me journalism is circling the bowl of a truck stop toilet.
