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Showing Original Post only (View all)MADDOW: Fair Game to DISCLOSE NAMES of Republicans WHO LIED to ABC News [View all]
Last edited Sat May 18, 2013, 11:15 AM - Edit history (1)
After taking her viewers through the whole, long, ugly mess with ABC's big "scoop" on the Benghazi emails and the how the story pretty much fizzled out by the end of the week with the discovery that Republicans were responsible for doctoring the supposed quotes from the emails that they published, Rachel Maddow had given her two cents on ABC still protecting the sources who lied to them.
MADDOW: And now, part of the scandal here is a press scandal. You know what? When you get used like this and you end up publishing false information, false quotes, you have to correct it. But the bigger scandal here is not a process matter, not a press matter. There's a very stark fact that somebody in Congress right now, or somebody working for somebody in Congress right now, a staffer, concocted a big lie to try to make the White House look very desperately bad on this Benghazi scandal that they otherwise have not been able to get traction on.
Who told the lie? And a note to my journalist pals who got involved in this scandal. If your source lied to you, they are not actually a source. They are a con artist and you are their victim. It means you don't have to protect them any more. They're not a source.
When you get lied to, when you are a tool of somebody else's deception, when you get lied to, the person lying to you is no longer a source, they are news. Their lie to you is itself news and you can report that news. Republican Congressional offices shopped a false dossier as if it was a White House email. That is a story. The office and the staffers and the members of Congress maybe who did that... that is news. And if you know who it is, you can say so.
Who told the lie? And a note to my journalist pals who got involved in this scandal. If your source lied to you, they are not actually a source. They are a con artist and you are their victim. It means you don't have to protect them any more. They're not a source.
When you get lied to, when you are a tool of somebody else's deception, when you get lied to, the person lying to you is no longer a source, they are news. Their lie to you is itself news and you can report that news. Republican Congressional offices shopped a false dossier as if it was a White House email. That is a story. The office and the staffers and the members of Congress maybe who did that... that is news. And if you know who it is, you can say so.
Boy do I wish they'd take her advice, but again, I'm not holding my breath.
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MADDOW: Fair Game to DISCLOSE NAMES of Republicans WHO LIED to ABC News [View all]
Segami
May 2013
OP
No, they're in on it. The media is owned by the same plutocrats who own the Republicans.
Scuba
May 2013
#89
For the most part, MSM only exists to amplify Republican Lies as far as I can tell.
emulatorloo
May 2013
#5
Or requiring the M$M to seek two sources and fact check...not going to happen; they need the money
byeya
May 2013
#22
They were not duped. I wish Rachel would have brought up the possibility that they were complicit.
rhett o rick
May 2013
#13
J. Karl has an agenda. He is most likely just as responsible for the deception as anyone. nm
rhett o rick
May 2013
#29
A couple of monkeys with keyboards, it was bound to happen sooner or later.
rhett o rick
May 2013
#62
Great. I doubt it has much impact but it might and it makes me feel better. nm
rhett o rick
May 2013
#98
Good point. Her reputation has been smeared and we all know an apology never comes close
byeya
May 2013
#23
If Howie Kurtz does not cover this on Reliable Sources, then he will get some e-mails
Gothmog
May 2013
#15
I doubt you will get any satisfaction from Kurtz. He is a tool for the Corp-Media. nm
rhett o rick
May 2013
#30
It was no where near an apology. He owned no part of it. He was sorry that something wrong happened.
rhett o rick
May 2013
#113
Hey KansDem..Yesterday I saw a bumper sticker on a car with Kansas license plates that said:
mountain grammy
May 2013
#97
CBS evening news did mention the deception last night but it was in a weak and in an...
retired rooster
May 2013
#31
Gwen Ifill's Washington Week gobbledy-gooked around leaving no impression of Republican wrongdoing.
Festivito
May 2013
#87
Some Republican lied to ABC, America, and also Lied to Congress. That last is grounds for Contempt.
Ford_Prefect
May 2013
#40