Media top headlines November 26
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Progressive writer Aaron Maté earlier this week slammed the media's coverage of the debunked allegations that former President Trump's presidential campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election, calling the reporting "broadly misleading journalism."
In a report published Wednesday by RealClearInvestigations, Maté detailed the corrections a number of media outlets were forced to make following the indictment of the Steele dossier's main source, Igor Danchenko, for allegedly lying to the FBI, and listed five instances of "stories containing false or misleading claims" that he said needed to be either retracted or corrected.
"Five years after the Hillary Clinton campaign-funded collection of Trump-Russia conspiracy theories known as the Steele dossier was published by BuzzFeed, news outlets that amplified its false allegations have suffered major losses of credibility. The recent indictment of the dossier's main source … has catalyzed a new reckoning," Maté wrote.
He noted that The Washington Post re-edited "at least a dozen stories" relating to former British intelligence operative Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier, and that for two of them, entire sections had to be removed, headlines changed and editor's notes added.
"But the Post's response also exhibits the limits of the media's Steele-induced self-examination," Maté wrote,...
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