Seth Abramson: Sept. 2016 Christopher Steele briefed NYT, WA Post, CNN,

[pnwmom]

Yahoo! and the New Yorker on his Russia research -- and none of the outlets did anything.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[triron]

1. Very good question.

MSM was complicit

[thbobby]

2. Follow the money

With MSM, ALWAYS follow the money - or ratings. Ratings is money. MSM wanted to trash Clinton and spare trump because a close election would mean higher ratings. Bashing Clinton meant higher ratings. Investigating the Steele Dossier would have required work on research for them. Would have made Trump less likely to be close in election. More work and less ratings. Our MSM.

[pnwmom]

3. Ratings aren't a big factor for the written MSM, though. What was wrong with them? n/t

[thbobby]

4. By written MSM

do you mean New York Times, Washington Post, etc? If so, I agree they are much better.

[pnwmom]

7. Right. And the New Yorker and Yahoo. And the worst

might be the NYTimes, because they published a story in October that they had been fed to them by some NY FBI sources, that said it was all a nothing-burger.

[BigmanPigman]

5. I blame them. I blame them for showing 30 min of an empty podium

waiting for the moron to speak at a rally during the campaign. I blame them for not focusing on the issues. I also blame social media (for allowing Russian bots, trolls, $$$$$$), Putin, misogynists, and the cherry on the top...COMEY! And I blame Americans for believing right wing BS propaganda radio and Fux Ruse too.

And has anything changed to stop the GOP and donors $$$$$$? Has anything been done to stop future Russian Interference in our soon approaching midterms? NO!

[Eyeball_Kid]

10. Then blame the Supreme Court for defining money as speech

and blame Reagan for eliminating the Fairness Doctrine and blame Clinton for the Telecommunications Act. Be fair about it. When news production in the media became profit-centered, then news becomes entertainment and editors vie for the biggest audiences by tailoring their content to desired demographics consistent with their sponsors' marketing plans. All feedback loops have monetary values. All news media now engages in their own profit-driven formulas. This is what we get: a breathless engagement with candidate Trumpy because he's entertaining and funny and irreverent and loud. Trumpy was the perfect candidate for the media and for 60 million people, many of whom no longer understand the workings of their own government partly because there is no national desire to educate the public about how their government works. So we get a person who is NOT interested in knowing what the Bill of Rights is because a huge swath of the nation has no idea what the Bill of Rights is and doesn't care whether the president knows.

It's bad, folks.

[BigmanPigman]

11. I agree with you 100% and have had those same

words coming out of my mouth for too, too long. My family is 4 generations of Dems and this is the sort of thing that we discuss at family dinners. The only thing that I would change in your post is "It's bad folks". I think "It's extremely bad folks" is appropriate.

[iluvtennis]

13. + agree

[JonLP24]

6. According to the book Collusion

They chose the easy story of Clinton's underwhelming email controversy rather than do the hard work chasing down this story.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

8. Chickenshits.

I would suspect all our MSM are scared to death of backlash from the Republican money and media machinery along with a Repug-controlled Congress, and scared of being labeled "liberal-friendly".

If any one of them had crashed the election, they knew they could be held liable for any errors in the dossier and their board of directors (probably loaded with Republicans) would roll many heads.

Follow the power and follow the money. The coup of the plutocrats is nearly complete.

[Corgigal]

9. The New Yorker too?

Damn, I trusted them to be different and chase hard stories.

[Botany]

12. Mother Fuckers!

God damn they all to hell. I saw this stuff in 2004 w/ w bush too.