BuzzFeed was right to publish Trump-Russia files

[Cattledog]

...It’s also worth noting how many reporters apparently have had access to the documents for weeks or months (Mother Jones’s David Corn wrote about them back in October). That means an unknown number of top journalists have been trying—and apparently failing—to pin down these details, which is extraordinary since, as others have noted, “[t]his is a document about meetings that either took place or did not take place, stays in hotels that either happened or didn’t, travel that either happened or did not happen. It should be possible to know whether at least some of these allegations are true or false.”

So why hasn’t it been possible? And why are so many journalists describing the contents of these documents not just as “unverified,” but as unverifiable? The Post’s Margaret Sullivan was among those taking BuzzFeed to task, writing that “n an era when trust in the media is already in the gutter, this does absolutely nothing to help.”

But does a media that sits indefinitely on a potentially gigantic story inspire greater public trust? Hardly.


http://www.cjr.org

[Vinca]

1. I hope pictures or videos make their way to them, too.

The public should have had an inkling of this before the vote was taken, but it was a cover-up by "journalists" looking for ratings in the years to come.

[Cha]

2. Oh boohoo, Margaret Sullivan..

snippets//

"The media’s full-throated condemnation of BuzzFeed is both self-righteous and self-serving."

Yeah, that's what I was thinking..

"You can almost hear the rest of the media muttering, “Damn, why didn’t we think of that first?”

"But did reporters independently verify all the allegations against Hillary Clinton and her allies contained in the emails released by WikiLeaks?An October story in The Hill details the allegation that Donna Brazile passed a debate question to the Clinton campaign, and contains this caveat in the fourth paragraph: “The emails, which have been made public in batches by WikiLeaks, have been largely unconfirmed and are believed to have been stolen by Russian intelligence.” Brazile and CNN denied the allegations

http://www.cjr.org/criticism/buzzfeed_trump_russia_memos.php

Thanks Cattledog