The Washington Post's Fake Trump Quote Scandal Is a Lot Worse Than You Think

[Ptarmigan]

The Washington Post's Fake Trump Quote Scandal Is a Lot Worse Than You Think
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/03/15/the-washington-posts-fake-trump-quote-scandal-is-a-lot-worse-than-you-think-n1432763

The media conspiracy against Trump became a lot more serious on Monday when the Washington Post retracted its January story claiming that President Donald Trump had pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find the fraud” in the 2020 election and said that he’d be a “national hero” if he did.

A recording of the call definitively proved that the quotes cited by the Washington Post, and then parroted by other outlets, were never actually said by the president at all.

But, as Becket Adams explains at the Washington Examiner, “the Washington Post’s dud of a ‘bombshell’ isn’t even the most scandalous thing about this episode in media malfeasance.”

The most scandalous thing, Adams, argues, is that several different newsrooms “claimed they independently ‘confirmed’ the original ‘scoop’ with anonymous sources of their own.”

Fake news. Just confirms all along.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

If they didn't lie they wouldn't have anything to report.

[Texacon]

And they'll get away with it.  Nothing will be done.  These quotes were used during the impeachment and helped the dems get the result they wanted, so it's all good!

Personally I think any reporter who blatantly lies in a story should have their media card pulled. 

KC

[DLR Pyro]

And they'll get away with it.  Nothing will be done.  These quotes were used during the impeachment and helped the dems get the result they wanted, so it's all good!

Personally I think any reporter who blatantly lies in a story should have their media card pulled. 

KC

agree.  it's a form of professional malpractice

[Drafe Hoblin]

When you're old enough you can recognize when a car hits a deep pothole at the wrong angle...  They're looking at a cracked suspension.

The paper would already sell at a loss... after starting the month holding the bag on Khashoggi.  -Guess they don't have any 'pull' where it counts anymore.  And it's getting worse if they think they'll survive by doing non-news Dem puff-pieces.   

[thundley4]

Personally I think any reporter who blatantly lies in a story should have their media card pulled. 

KC

I would go even further. Any news agency/magazine/network/website that runs with the story when it affects national security, would lose all access in federal buildings.