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Washington Post's Wemple Demands that CNN Retract Claim Steele Dossier Was Corroborated
Newsbusters ^ | November 14, 2021 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 11/14/2021 3:56:40 PM PST by PJ-Comix

Remember when Christopher Steele's dossier supposedly incriminating President Donald Trump was treated as almost infallible holy writ by much of the mainstream media, especially CNN? Well, now that the primary source of that dossier has been indicted for lying to the FBI, where are the corrections to the record by those same media outlets? The Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple is now holding CNN to account and wonders when very specific members of that organization's staff will publicly retract their assertions about how the Steele dossier was corroborated as you can see in his Friday column, "Does CNN still stand by its reporting on the Steele dossier?"

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KEYWORDS: clickbait; cnn; fakenews; steeledossier
And all reporters who won Pulitzers for writing about Trump-Russia collusion MUST return their FAKE NEWS prizes.
1 posted on 11/14/2021 3:56:40 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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They’re eating their own now, lol. Love it!


2 posted on 11/14/2021 4:09:12 PM PST by Prince of Space ( Let’s go, Brandon! )
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To: PJ-Comix

The WaPo should burn that Schiff guy at the stake for being a Witch.


3 posted on 11/14/2021 4:09:47 PM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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The prizes were given for undermining Trump, not for good reporting.


4 posted on 11/14/2021 4:35:33 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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When is the WP going to give back its Pulitzer? When is theWP going to apologize to President Trump and to the American people for perpetuating and participating in this hoax?


5 posted on 11/14/2021 4:37:20 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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And all reporters who won Pulitzers for writing about Trump-Russia collusion MUST return their FAKE NEWS prizes.

Yeah, they will be returned as soon as Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize for Stalin worship is returned.

November 21, 2003
[Pulitzer] Statement on Walter Duranty's 1932 Prize
After more than six months of study and deliberation, the Pulitzer Prize Board has decided it will not revoke the foreign reporting prize awarded in 1932 to Walter Duranty of The New York Times....

6 posted on 11/14/2021 4:38:21 PM PST by KarlInOhio ("Anti-fascist" is from the official name of the Berlin Wall: Anti-fascist Protection Barrier.)
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“You cannot out bull**it us!!”


7 posted on 11/14/2021 4:41:41 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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3 or 4 days ago listened to a very weak NPR response to this. They blamed Wapo and Nyt among others for false reporting took almost no responsibility themselves then went on to repeat 1 to 3 lies about Trump Russia for the 1000’s time.


8 posted on 11/14/2021 4:47:02 PM PST by nomorelurker
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Any time I feel a desire to know what’s the buzz in the faculty club of an average second-tier liberal arts college, NPR at the top of my go-to list.


9 posted on 11/14/2021 5:00:49 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Seems Wemple had some comments about the dossier


10 posted on 11/14/2021 5:05:06 PM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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What about that guy over at MSNBC, Maddow or whatever his name is?


11 posted on 11/14/2021 5:12:23 PM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President! )
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They lie to us. We know that they lie to us. They know that we know that they lie to us. And we know that they know that we know they lie to us. And yet they keep lying to us. -Solzhenitsyn


12 posted on 11/14/2021 5:26:02 PM PST by Spok
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A reputation once lost is very difficult to get back.

CNN’s rep is so far under water it will take hundreds of years just to break the surface so it can go up from zero.


13 posted on 11/14/2021 5:27:42 PM PST by Boomer (Leftism is a mental illness wrapped in a perverse ideology resulting in insanity. FJB)
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Retract? WTF is everyone talking about? they are and were CO-CONSPIRATORS in the Seditious Conspiracy to Overthrow the United States President. They should be TRIED, CONVICTED and HANGED


14 posted on 11/14/2021 5:31:20 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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One set of propagandist liars proves its moral superiority by condemning another set of propagandist liars.


15 posted on 11/14/2021 6:47:55 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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