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Media History repeats 12-11-17 See Michael's latest cartoons HERE |
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Media defeats itself, not Trump
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The Media Is Covering Itself With Glory In Its Zeal To Get Trump
JOHN SEXTONPosted at 5:01 pm on December 10, 2017 HOT AIR Friday, Ed wrote about CNN’s big scoop involving a shadowy figure emailing Wikileaks material full of Democratic emails to Donald Trump Jr. before the material was publicly released. As we all now know, that scoop was completely false. CNN eventually issued a correction explaining that two sources had given them the wrong date for the email in question. The actual date (9/14/2016) was a day afterWikileaks had put the information online. Yesterday, Glenn Greenwald pointed out at the Intercept that multiple sources—CNN, CBS, MSNBC—all published a version of this story, all claiming they had independently verified it. That suggests the “sources” of the false information were very busy peddling it to multiple outlets: Think about what this means. It means that at least two – and possibly more – sources, which these media outlets all assessed as credible in terms of having access to sensitive information, all fed the same false information to multiple news outlets at the same time. For multiple reasons, the probability is very high that these sources were Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee (or their high-level staff members), which is the committee that obtained access to Trump Jr.’s emails, although it’s certainly possible that it’s someone else. We won’t know until these news outlets deign to report this crucial information to the public: which “multiple sources” acted jointly to disseminate incredibly inflammatory, false information to the nation’s largest news outlets? As Greenwald points out, just last week the Washington Post outed an undercover operative for Project Veritas on the grounds that the information given by this source was false. Journalists are not required to protect the identities of people who lie to them. So why haven’t any of these outlets revealed their sources yet? How is it possible that two different sources get the date wrong on this email? And before you say ‘Maybe it was a bad photocopy’ it wasn’t. The Intercept posted a screenshot of the email and the date is perfectly clear. This really looks like a case of Democrats leaking a false story and multiple media outlets running with it. But again, we won’t know for certain until those outlets reveal how this happened. read more 
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Michael Ramirez's latest artwork honoring America's veterans is now available in a limited signed and numbered print. Reproduced with archival inks on fine art paper, the image measures approximately 14' x 9' with a 1' border for a total size of 16" x 11' Click HERE or on the image to see pricing.
Original sketch, original ink drawing and the first print are also available as a single set. All of Michael's available art may be viewed HERE 
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