2017.01.10 Fake Dossier

BuzzFeed started the hype about the discredited Steele (Pee Pee) Dossier, which turned out to be Hillary disinformation.

Nobody wanted to publish the discredited Steele (Pee Pee) Dossier, which turned out to be Hillary disinformation. BuzzFeed was first to post the tabloid garbage... then NYT, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and others jumped on board. For years, the right wing exposed how stupid the claims were. It wasn't until 5 years later, many of the left wing publications offered back page retractions.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2022-04-12

Most media outlets (besides BuzzFeed) avoided the salacious Steele (Pee Pee) Dossier. But once it ran, plenty (NYT, CNN/Evan Perez, MSNBC, NBC, etc), republished it and/or jumped on board to talk about it, and not refute its abusrdity, or clarify its provenance as a dirty/corrupt election trick (created by the DNC) and used to get illegal warrants and undermine our democracy. Instead CNN/BuzzFeed used it to infer that Trump had Russian ties (collusion), or was compromised and other FakeNews.

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New York Times
A never great News Agency has become a shadow of their former self: admittedly biased, occasionally good content.

Fake News
While the term goes back 100 years, the history is summed up well by Sharyl Attkisson.

CNN
1980 Ted Turner started CNN to put his left center spin on "the news". Then it went downhill.

Donald Trump
A list of articles on Trump, his accomplishments, scandals (real and imagined).

BuzzFeed
The lowest of the news outlets: the journalism of Twitter or Redit with pretentiousness of the New Yorker.

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