Media pat themselves on the back following implosion of the collusion news cycle
by Becket Adams
| March 26, 2019 10:50 AM
If you are hoping for an industrywide reckoning in the press following the implosion of the years-long Russian collusion news cycle, you’re going to be sorely disappointed.
Media executives are not just unashamed of how their employees have covered this story for the last two years, they are proud of them.
CNN President Jeff Zucker, for example, happily defends his network’s disastrously flawed coverage of the allegations that President Trump conspired with the Russian government to steal the 2016 presidential election, claiming his reporters are not investigators. This is not a paraphrase.
"We are not investigators," Zucker said. "We are journalists, and our role is to report the facts as we know them, which is exactly what we did.â€
For the entirety of the Russian collusion news cycle, which began in earnest around mid-2016, CNN’s contributions to the story teetered consistently between extremely dubious and outright false.
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