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Washington Post on the ‘Fake News’ Hot Seat
Daily Beast ^ | December 9, 2016 | By Lloyd Grove

Posted on 12/10/2016 8:04:56 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

The Washington Post—whose coverage of Watergate four decades ago angered the powers that be, toppled a president, and defined courageous journalism—has unleashed a hornet’s nest of a different sort, one unlikely to earn a Pulitzer Prize.

Indeed, Washington’s newspaper of record—which was purchased in 2013 by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos from the storied Graham family—is uncomfortably weathering a barrage of criticism from fellow journalists and others for a front-page story published over the Thanksgiving holiday.

The story, by Post technology reporter Craig Timberg and published Nov. 24, purported to reveal how “sophisticated” Russian propagandists had spread fake news through hundreds of web sites to destabilize American democracy, thwart Hillary Clinton and elect Donald Trump to the White House.

So far the story—which has attracted millions of page views and more than 14,000 comments—has provoked lawsuit threats from at least two of the web sites, notably the widely respected financial blog Naked Capitalism, which fired off a legal letter demanding a retraction and apology even though the Post story does not specifically mention Naked Capitalism or any of the other allegedly Russian-influenced websites.

There has also been a fusillade of disparaging commentary in publications ranging from The Intercept to The New Yorker. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: fakenews; fakewnews; media; msm
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1 posted on 12/10/2016 8:04:56 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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Amazon should unload this crap rag.

The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.

Parent companies include: Disney, Comcast, Time Warner, & Amazon.


2 posted on 12/10/2016 8:07:27 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

How old is the exploding Ford truck fake story from NBC?


3 posted on 12/10/2016 8:08:10 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“How old is the exploding Ford truck fake story from NBC?”
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Chev. The exploding Ford is yet another fake?


4 posted on 12/10/2016 8:15:44 PM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Gene Eric

But this is exactly the reason Bezos bought it.


5 posted on 12/10/2016 8:15:55 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I think it was GM, and I’m thinking sometime back in the early 90’s.


6 posted on 12/10/2016 8:17:03 PM PST by jimjohn (This battle is over, but the war to rebuild the America has just begun.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

It was General Motors, and the gas tanks were rigged with pyro charges. That went off a split second before impact occurred.


7 posted on 12/10/2016 8:18:42 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.d)
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To: Brad from Tennessee


8 posted on 12/10/2016 8:22:29 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: Spktyr

Aye, it was GM


9 posted on 12/10/2016 8:24:57 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Let’s not forget a biggie in the annuls of fake news by the main stream media....

Michael Isikoff running a Fake News story on Korans being flushed.

That one started riots around the world and got scores of people killed. (not counting US military )


10 posted on 12/10/2016 8:28:40 PM PST by digger48
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To: digger48

The fake Bush National Guard Story.


11 posted on 12/10/2016 9:01:20 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: jimjohn

It was saddle gas tanks in GMC trucks. They weren’t blowing up as expected so the nice MSM folks (’Dateline’ Stone Phillips?) helped by fastening fireworks to the tanks.


12 posted on 12/10/2016 9:02:23 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: Spktyr; ButThreeLeftsDo; jimjohn; StAntKnee

13 posted on 12/10/2016 9:03:20 PM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The Post’s tirade about “fake news” is the pot calling the kettle black.


14 posted on 12/10/2016 10:04:33 PM PST by Roberts
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To: Brad from Tennessee

When the “Daily Beast “ is the only news source that is carrying this, the trouble is small. Sad but true.


15 posted on 12/10/2016 11:12:49 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: JimSEA

Every newspaper out there seems to be promoting fake news stories and “facts” these days, exactly WHO is telling the truth?


16 posted on 12/11/2016 1:24:03 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: DaveA37

You’ve got to sort through the garbage and wait on stories that are jumping the gun with few facts. The main filter you need is a consideration of agendas.


17 posted on 12/11/2016 1:42:26 AM PST by JimSEA
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Dateline NBC aired an investigative report on November 17, 1992, titled "Waiting to Explode".

NBC Caught Lying About Chevrolet Trucks Exploding

18 posted on 12/11/2016 3:17:07 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Gene Eric

the MSM get folks like Andrea Mitchell who is willing to parrot what ever crappola the Dems and especially Hillary or obammy say concerning any subject, true or false.
Pretty easy to be a disbeliever if you have any deductive reasoning at all.


19 posted on 12/11/2016 4:17:24 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Her ass belongs in prison.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Thank you posters.

I am making a list of these manufactured news items so I can place them under the next breathless report on "fake news". Keep 'em coming.

Here's mine. Remember the "Jeeps roll over on gentle turns"?

Later investigation of the claim showed that the "testers" had to put the Jeeps through 435 runs to get 8 rollovers. A single vehicle was put through 201 runs and accounted for 4 of the rollovers. An investigative engineer at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration later wrote that the tests' validity was "questionable" given their apparently "abnormal test conditions and unrealistic maneuvers," and also found signs that the vehicles' loading had been "manipulated in combination with other vehicle conditions to generate worst-case conditions" for stability.

The "vehicle loading" issue was clarified by the testers' own internal report, which was not disclosed at the time but emerged later in litigation. In their report, the testers say that at the request of Insurance Institute personnel, they had taken the step of _hanging weights in the vehicle's corners_ -- inside the body, where they were not apparent to the camera. (http://walterolson.com - some good stuff there)

Almost forgot THIS CLASSIC.

20 posted on 12/11/2016 4:39:47 AM PST by Oatka
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