8/5/2023 0 Comments Steele dossier declassified“Our audiences are swimming in all kinds of information,” he said. In April 2017, then-BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith - who is now, believe it or not, The New York Times media columnist - went on CNN podcast “The Axe Files” and defended publishing the entire Steele dossier. A Nexis search for Stelter’s name and “dossier” or “Fusion GPS” or “Christopher Steele” finds very little, nothing after December 2018. In other words, he’s the anti-Brian Stelter. Wemple is playing equal-opportunity media critic with this story and has hammered CNN and MSNBC (especially MSNBC’s biggest star, Rachel Maddow) for their journalistic breakdown. He titled a recent article “Trump + Hannity = An exceptionally dumb Easter.” So why is Wemple still writing about this? After all, other recent articles underline that Wemple is a fierce critic of President Trump’s “unhinged” coronavirus press briefings. But the networks didn’t notice these new revelations. The dossier drew only 15 minutes of airtime in 2017 and eight in 2018 when former FBI Director James Comey’s book came out. The “bombshells” always seem to land on one party. The Media Research Center found that during the first two and a half years of Trump’s presidency, the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts devoted over 2,200 minutes to the notion that Russian disinformation was used to elect Trump, but they avoided revelations that made Democrats look bad. Then there’s the falsified claim that Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen flew to Prague to meet with Russian colluders. Most obviously, the notion that the Russians possessed spicy “kompromat” on Donald Trump’s alleged behavior with prostitutes in Moscow was Tom Arnold-level journalism. Wemple, as well as other journalists, found two disinformation lumps in Steele’s bubbling cauldron of unproven gossip. Charles Grassley and Ron Johnson, who requested the declassified footnotes. “It’s ironic that the Russian collusion narrative was fatally flawed because of Russian disinformation,” quipped Sens.
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