Michael Goodwin: The left-wing media created their own crisis and now have to pay the price for repeatedly attacking Donald Trump
Michael Goodwin
Even as defeated Democrats try to decide who they are and what they believe in, their media handmaidens face a crisis of their own.
The comeuppance against their politically driven bias has arrived — and it’s proving to be expensive in more ways than one.
Recent days have reconfirmed that their war against Donald Trump is their most egregious assault on truth and fairness, but it was hardly the first or only.
CNN was caught this week boasting it helped free a desperate Syrian prisoner from a government slaughterhouse in Damascus.
Problem is, the man was quickly unmasked as an intelligence officer for the hated Assad regime, which the embarrassed outlet now acknowledges.
Reporter Clarissa Ward and her crew fell for the ruse because they ignored a cardinal rule of caution: A story that is too good to be true usually isn’t true.
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