Discussion for article #243909
I wont take credit for this (I’m not Trump) but here is the email i sent to Margaret Sullivan on Wednesday with the subject line “Another screw up from the same reporters who got the Hillary “criminal investigation” story so wrong?”
“Today the FBI director said the San Bernadino terrorists never pledged jihad on social media. The direct quote from James Comey: “I’ve seen some reporting on that, and that’s a garble.”
That “reporting” came from the Times on Sunday in a piece by the same two reporters who wrote that epically wrong story over the summer that Hillary Clinton was the target of a criminal probe into the mishandling of classified information. The NYT subtly walked back that story but still never really explained how they got it so wrong.
Will these reporters keep getting chances to screw up? Do they (or a source on their beat) have an agenda to damage the current president or the leading Democratic candidate for the 2016 election?
How is the NYT so complacent these days about major mistakes like this? Standards never used to be so casual. That email story was almost laughed off by your managing editor as, “Oh well, mistakes happen.”
What’s going on here, Ms Sullivan?”
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Looks like another example of very, very sloppy reporting (and non-existent editing) by our paper of record.
What gives, New York Times?
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More “tell the story the way we wish it was and walk it back later because nobody will catch the correction anyway” from the 4th Estate’s shuffling zombie corpse. It’s all unjournalism based on the fact that you can’t put the shit back in the dog.
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Same reporters. Well, two of three on this story were the same ones whose totally reliable iron-solid sources told them Hillary was being criminally investigated over teh emailghazzi.
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“All the News That Fits Our Narrative.”
Dutifully regurgitating lies during the previous administration.
Just making sh*t up to embarrass this one.
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But, but … Ted Cruz and Chris Christie told me (and millions of other patriotic Americans) that we would have known about San Bernardino beforehand if Obama hadn’t blocked law enforcement from monitoring the woman’s Facebook listings because Obama’s so worried about being politically correct. Go figure: Cruz and Christie have always told me the exact truth until now.
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And when I wade into different comment sections about Republicans, you better believe that the morons out there are absolutely certain that she’s guilty as charged for whatever they think she did regarding Benghazi and her emails.
Meanwhile, Bush, Cheney and the boyz can’t travel overseas without worrying about a big ol’ arrest somewhere.
No wonder Hannity worries his pretty little haid about those pesky Geneva Conventions.
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They don’t seem to be too successful though, do they.
Normal people have been breathing easier with a competent president and administration.
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Which, I just want to point out again, was never mentioned…not once…in either debate by any candidate.
I find that pretty remarkable. But even more impressive…not a single new source or talking head has brought up that very curious omission during a foreign policy debate.
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The eventual repub nominee won’t dare bring it up in a debate if she’s there, too.
She’ll make mincemeat outta him.
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A prime example of why reactionary journalism and reactionary people are very much what’s wrong with this country and we need more thinking people in places of prominence. The NYT rushes to post something with out accurately confirming the information, then non-thinking candidates for President (Trump, Cruz, Rubio, etc.) begin making public statements and policy suggestions based on that unfounded claim.
Thankfully Obama, The Only Adult in the Room™, isn’t so quick to take amateur information and make amateur statements about it.
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When I grow up I want to be a NYT editor, you get paid very well and all you have to do is rubber stamp whatever the “journalists” type up verbatim from their sources.
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Ehhh. How far has the Times fallen?
I’m inclined to believe the Director of the FBI and other news sources.
Heckuva job @NYTimes
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