Media Must Report Truth Of Anti-Trump Spy Operation Before It’s Too Late For Them..Mollie Hemingway

[mystery-ak]

 Media Must Report Truth Of Anti-Trump Spy Operation Before It’s Too Late For Them

As facts about the Obama administration's spying and leaking are spilling out, media have a brief window of opportunity to salvage some credibility.

By Mollie Hemingway
May 17, 2020

As new details emerge about the Obama administration’s broad spying-and-leaking campaign against the incoming Trump administration, reporters have a choice to make about whether to cover this story honestly, at long last. There is a brief window of time afforded the media to get the story right. They should take advantage of it.

Journalist Lee Smith already noted the seriousness of the problem facing legacy media after the implosion of the Russia collusion conspiracy theory they peddled. “Americans still want and need accurate information on which to base their decisions about their own lives and the path that the country should take. But neither the legacy media nor the expert class it sustains is likely to survive the post-dossier era in any recognizable form,” he wrote. “For them, Russiagate is an extinction level event.”

Many of our supposedly smart media elites are dinosaurs who are completely unaware of the asteroid headed right to them. Instead, they are doing their part in an all-hands-on-deck effort to continue pushing out Democratic talking points that got them into the mess. This week, that meant they regurgitated the Democratic claim that the Obama administration’s spying and leaking was “normal” and that to be concerned about it is nothing more than a “distraction.”

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https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/17/media-must-report-truth-of-anti-trump-spy-operation-before-its-too-late-for-them/

[PeteS in CA]

Sadly, I think the media credibility ship sailed in the 1990s. I think few MSM-folk give a @#$% about their inexorable loss of credibility, if they even acknowledge it.

[aligncare]

Sadly, I think the media credibility ship sailed in the 1990s. I think few MSM-folk give a @#$% about their inexorable loss of credibility, if they even acknowledge it.

If the media’s revenue stream were dependent on accuracy, they’d starve.

[rangerrebew]

 Media Must Report Truth Of Anti-Trump Spy Operation Before It’s Too Late For Them
As facts about the Obama administration's spying and leaking are spilling out, media have a brief window of opportunity to salvage some credibility.
 
By Mollie Hemingway
May 17, 2020

As new details emerge about the Obama administration’s broad spying-and-leaking campaign against the incoming Trump administration, reporters have a choice to make about whether to cover this story honestly, at long last. There is a brief window of time afforded the media to get the story right. They should take advantage of it.

Journalist Lee Smith already noted the seriousness of the problem facing legacy media after the implosion of the Russia collusion conspiracy theory they peddled. “Americans still want and need accurate information on which to base their decisions about their own lives and the path that the country should take. But neither the legacy media nor the expert class it sustains is likely to survive the post-dossier era in any recognizable form,” he wrote. “For them, Russiagate is an extinction level event.”

https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/17/media-must-report-truth-of-anti-trump-spy-operation-before-its-too-late-for-them/

[Cyber Liberty]

I don't agree with the article's premise.  That window was just after 3/22/19 and they blew by it in spectacular style.  The press knows that train left the station a long time ago.

[skeeter]

I don't agree with the article's premise.  That window was just after 3/22/19 and they blew by it in spectacular style.  The press knows that train left the station a long time ago.

My problem with the writer's premise is it assumes the press still feels some fealty to the truth. They don't care. They only care about influencing the opinions of their consumers.

[Cyber Liberty]

My problem with the writer's premise is it assumes the press still feels some fealty to the truth. They don't care. They only care about influencing the opinions of their consumers.

That's the problem with these media mega-companies.  They can easily absorb the revenue losses of the crooked news bureaus, and there is no incentive to change.  They will ignore this as well.

[goatprairie]

My problem with the writer's premise is it assumes the press still feels some fealty to the truth. They don't care. They only care about influencing the opinions of their consumers.

Exactly. The press/media hasn't printed/told the truth since I started following the news almost sixty years ago.
Like I always say, it's not the lies they tell but the truth they hide.

[roamer_1]

FAR worse than Russiagate, Wuhan.

[Smokin Joe]

They aren't there to tell the truth,

They are there to sell soap!

When news became news and entertainment, the focus was on the latter eventually, and news (and reporting) fell by the wayside. If you want truth, go read the Food section.

[Cyber Liberty]

They aren't there to tell the truth,

They are there to sell soap!

When news became news and entertainment, the focus was on the latter eventually, and news (and reporting) fell by the wayside. If you want truth, go read the Food section.

The TeeBee news stations don't even care if they sell the soap.  They have other arms of the company that can sell the soap.