Rachel Maddow warns: People are trying to fool the media with forged documents

[DonViejo]

FRIDAY, JUL 7, 2017 10:14 AM EDT

Rachel Maddow warns: People are trying to fool the media with forged documents

The MSNBC host says that she was sent a false NSA document so that she could discredit herself by reporting it

MATTHEW ROZSA

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow is sending out a clear warning to media outlets: Beware of forgeries that seem designed to trick you into reporting fake news about Russia.

Introducing her story as “one of the few times we have ever had a scoop on this show where I feel I need to send this up like a flare for other news organizations in particular,” Maddow described how she had received a forged document at a website she created so that viewers could send her tips.

From her description, the document in question, if true, was “red hot,” both in the sense that its classification level made it extremely difficult to authenticate and in the sense that its political implications would have been momentous.

“We believe now that the story we have stumbled upon here is that somebody out there is shopping carefully forged documents to try to discredit news agencies reporting on the Russian attack on our election and, specifically, on the possibility that the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russians in mounting that attack,” Maddow concluded.

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[TexasProgresive]

1. This is taking a page from KKKarl Rove's playbook

While the content of the doc was accurate the doc itself was not, and Rather and his producer were discredited. These people are evil.

[jberryhill]

2. This was obviously going to happen

...and is one of the reasons to be careful around sensational claims.

[oberliner]

3. What was the doctored line?

That Linda Sarsour did not say?