Eric Wemple, it’s media critic, has written a stream of stories about the unfolding dossier debacle for the media broadly. In short, the Post publicly admitted: We goofed. The Justice Department later condemned the bureau’s failure to address doubts about the Steele information when it sought the court’s permission to watch Page. In part because of the dossier, the FBI surveilled Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Editors’ concern, according to the Post, is that the story actually might have been planted by “a Democratic Party operative with long-standing ties to Hillary Clinton.” The newspaper cited the indictment and “new reporting” that questioned whether businessman Sergei Millian, supposedly the source for the prostitute story, had in fact provided the information. But after the indictment, the Post corrected and excised parts of more than a half dozen stories about the dossier, going back to 2017. Earlier this month, Igor Danchenko, a Russian American who helped create the dossier, was indicted for allegedly lying to the FBI about how he got his information. The dossier was assembled by British spy Christopher Steele for a private intelligence firm aligned with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Let’s first avoid Trumpers’ default whataboutism and summarize why Axios calls the Steele dossier “one of the most egregious journalistic errors in modern history.” Unlike the Republicans’ error, the media’s Steele bungle did not trigger treasonous violence at the Capitol to overturn the people’s expressed will. And this: You’re messing up worse, for a similar - but deadlier – inability to confess error. To Trump supporters gloating that the MSM messed up, I say: You're right. The yuck factor was indisputable, less so the fact factor: the charge has never been confirmed. If you don’t recall the dossier, brimming with purported dirt about 2016 candidate Donald Trump, you likely remember its most salacious claim: Trump had cavorted with prostitutes in a Russian hotel room to “defile” it (the Washington Post’s verb) after its use by the Obamas. This time for being largely discredited by two recent federal investigations. None of us likes to admit error, which may be why some media organizations seem in denial about hyperbolizing the Steele dossier, which is in the news again recently.
Except he wasn’t that businessman, but rather a ruddy, graying-and-cropped, stocky, prominent local curmudgeon. I once covered a New Hampshire school district meeting and quoted comments from a man across the cavernous auditorium whose ruddy complexion, graying-and-cropped hair and stocky build identified him to me, and in my story, as a prominent local businessman. (Michael Zarrilli/Getty Images)Īs a journalist for 40 years, I've made my share of mistakes and eaten correction crow.
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