How did so much of the media get the Steele dossier so wrong?

Re:How did so much of the media get the Steele dossier so wr... by JacobThreeThree on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:40AM (#29241743)

The NYT seems to think it's been discredited:

>Now it has been largely discredited by two federal investigations and the indictment of a key source, leaving journalists to reckon how, in the heat of competition, so many were taken in so easily because the dossier seemed to confirm what they already suspected.

Do you know something the NYT doesn't?

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Re:How did so much of the media get the Steele dossier so wr... by js2 on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:47AM (#29241839)

This is a guest essay. Your quote should be attributed to he writer, Bill Grueskin, not to the NYT.

https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014809107-How-...

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Re:How did so much of the media get the Steele dossier so wr... by mc32 on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:50AM (#29241890)

This is narrative writing. It wasn’t in the ‘heat of competition’ it was in essence collusion of traditional and modern media with the opposition party in order to discredit and undermine a presidency they disliked.

For counter example look at how they avoided looking into emails on hunter Biden's laptop. Oh, we can’t prove the emails are genuine… but they had no problem taking evidence against their disfavored candidates at face value.

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