Buzzfeed was alway crap, but this time, they, and CNN, are getting jumped because they aren't bending over for Trump and blindly repeating whatever he says. The "lying poo" in this case has, is, and probably will be Trump and his lackeys.
The centipede strikes the viper for the viper refuses to obey, that does not change the fact that the nature of both is venomous fangs, and it is pleasing to watch them bleed dollars. Fingers crossed, Buzzfeed and CNN gonna get gawkered in current year +2
I would prefer the casus legitation-i be something more defamatory than reporting facts. *cough*
So would I, but Americans are very content to defend their corrupt lying media when it supports the people explo- I mean, people representing them. Thus any consequential casus belli is welcome, maybe after Buzzfeed and CNN democrats and republicans can go for fox news afterwards with bipartisan hope
I mean, unless we're going to make a rule that every fact is automatically doubted unless the poster provides at least three independent sources ...
Sources as news media is insufficient, 1 source of evidence is sufficient
Take for example the allegations of presidents, prostitutes, putin and piss. Lots of people posting news sources talking about how legit these allegations are, they're the most legit allegations, they're so true these allegations omg literally can't even, but not a single shred of evidence, the dossier coming from
this guy's peeps with the anons convinced that poor Rick got swindled by a larping anon
By all accounts, Mr. Steele has an excellent reputation with American and British intelligence colleagues and had done work for the F.B.I. on the investigation of bribery at FIFA, soccer’s global governing body. Colleagues say he was acutely aware of the danger he and his associates were being fed Russian disinformation. Russian intelligence had mounted a complex hacking operation to damage Mrs. Clinton, and a similar operation against Mr. Trump was possible.
But much of what he was told, and passed on to Fusion GPS, was very difficult to check. And some of the claims that can be checked seem problematic. Mr. Cohen, for instance, said on Twitter on Tuesday night that he has never been in Prague; Mr. Solodukhin, his purported Russian contact, denied in a telephone interview that he had ever met Mr. Cohen or anyone associated with Mr. Trump. The president-elect on Wednesday cited news reports that a different Michael Cohen with no Trump ties may have visited Prague and that the two Cohens might have been mixed up in Mr. Steele’s reports.
But word of a dossier had begun to spread through political circles. Rick Wilson, a Republican political operative who was working for a super PAC supporting Marco Rubio, said he heard about it in July, when an investigative reporter for a major news network called him to ask what he knew.
By early fall, some of Mr. Steele’s memos had been given to the F.B.I., which was already investigating Mr. Trump’s Russian ties, and to journalists. An MI6 official, whose job does not permit him to be quoted by name, said that in late summer or early fall, Mr. Steele also passed the reports he had prepared on Mr. Trump and Russia to British intelligence. Mr. Steele was concerned about what he was hearing about Mr. Trump, and he thought that the information should not be solely in the hands of people looking to win a political contest.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-intelligence.html?_r=0
With no one questioning unverified information coming from people with axes to grind because they have common enemies
I have seen this exact thing before in the UK with the David Hameron scandal, there was no evidence that the Prime Minister shagged a pig's head, there's no evidence he was even a member of the pig shagging society in question, the source in question was someone reputable (but unnamed) speaking through a political opponent of the accused and it was all spread by respectable mainstream news stations.
And it was fucking hilarious.
Untrue, to be sure by all metrics of truth, but it was useful and have some words
from our current crazy lefty on the whole thing
Jeremy Corbyn has today spoken out for the first time since the infamous ‘piggate‘ scandal emerged this week, saying the furore risked overshadowing “real issues”.
The newly elected Labour leader blasted media outlets for carrying claims about David Cameron’s university frolics that circulated among newspapers and on social media, criticising journalists for having become obsessed with “personality politics”.
He claimed this week’s treatment of the accusations had diminished the scrutiny afforded to other more important topics.
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“The media treatment of any politician unsubstantiated allegations, be it David Cameron, me or anyone else is wrong,” Corbyn told ITV News on Thursday.
“Too much of our media is obsessed with personality politics, obsessed with personal criticism of politicians and therefore detracting from very serious issues around housing, living standards, jobs or world peace.”
"Respectable media" is something transient, respect more often than not is just based on what looks respectable. People want someone in a business suit to tell them what to believe in, other people want to see the ocular proof and tell the business suit people they're bellends who deserve the decline of their medium
subtle social commentary