Bob Woodward's scathing remarks on media's Russiagate coverage largely met with silence from NY Time

Discussion in 'Politics' started by wildchild, Feb 3, 2023.

  1. wildchild

    wildchild

    Hey Bob, thanks for finally figuring out the Russia Collusion narrative was a complete hoax. You are only about 6 years too late.

    Why do they think anyone for NYT or WaPo would mention anything? Its not like they are going to step out and admit that they lied.

    BTW, if Woodward figured this out, at what point did Robby Mueller figure this out and why didnt he report immediately that the accusation was bullshit?

    When is anyone from this cabal going to go to prison for trying to topple a President under false pretenses? When that kind of activity happens in other countries it is refereed to as a coup.



    https://www.foxnews.com/media/bob-w...te-coverage-largely-met-silence-ny-times-wapo

    Veteran journalist Bob Woodward's scathing remarks about the media's handling of the Russiagate saga and the Christopher Steele dossier were largely met with silence in the industry this week.

    Woodward was one of several major figures who spoke to the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) for a postmortem of sorts — published this week after 18 months of work — on the sprawling Donald Trump-Russia collusion allegation story that consumed American media for years. Woodward, the legendary Washington Post reporter who helped break the Watergate scandal in the 1970s and conducted a series of eye-popping interviews with President Trump, said news coverage of the Russia inquiry "wasn’t handled well" and that he thought viewers and readers had been "cheated."

    He also claimed in the report that he'd warned Washington Post reporters working on Russia collusion stories about why he had publicly criticized the Christopher Steele dossier in 2017 as a "garbage document," and the Post reporters had expressed a lack of curiosity on the subject.

    Jeff Gerth's lengthy work for CJR covering the Trump-Russia media saga delved into several key moments, including the press's credulous handling of the now-discredited Steele dossier, the awarding of Pulitzers to the New York Times and Washington Post for stories furthering a theory that didn't ultimately come to fruition, misleading or omitted facts and figures that obscured the media's preferred Russia collusion narrative, and the media panic over then-Attorney General Bill Barr's letter in 2019 summarizing the Robert Mueller investigation's findings.

    In 2018, New York Times and Washington Post reporters shared a Pulitzer Prize "for deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration."

    Both the Times and the Post have cited the Pulitzer as a vindication of their reporting, but the prizes came under criticism down the line as the Russiagate story and the idea of Trump being implicated in a diabolical conspiracy withered. Reporters who won the prestigious honor for their Russia reporting largely ignored requests for comment on Woodward's remarks.

    New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman, Michael S. Schmidt, Mark Mazzetti, Adam Entous, Matt Apuzzo, Jo Becker, Adam Goldman, Sharon LaFraniere and Matthew Rosenberg did not respond when reached by Fox News Digital. The New York Times’ media relations department did not respond to a request for comment, either.

    Washington Post reporter Rosalind Helderman referred Fox News Digital to the paper’s media relations team, which issued a statement defending the paper.
     
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