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Russia probe reaches current White House official, people familiar with the case say

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Cardinal said:
And you would be wrong. It's in the paper's interest to have credibility.
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Well an anonymous source told me the paper doesn't care about ethics anymore. We can all see that is true.
 
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Mason66 said:
Well an anonymous source told me the paper doesn't care about ethics anymore. We can all see that is true.
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The source that broke the watergate scandal was anonymous.
 
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Unitedwestand13 said:
The source that broke the watergate scandal was anonymous.
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You are right and that information was verified with other sources.

That is not what happens today as evidenced by the publishing of a supposed memo from Comey that was read over the phone to a reporter.

Even though we have phones that can transfer images, the reporter just accepted a voice over the phone and ran with the story.
 
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Tanngrisnir said:
Correct. I asked a question. Sorry you had to edit what I posted, turn tail and run.
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Ah...your cliche "they running away" fantasy. I address your point, smacked it down, and now need do no more but point and laugh at you until you can come up with an actual new counterpoint. Why should I take rumor seriously?
 
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Mithros said:
That's so true. It's amazing how gullible people are. They believe anything if it promotes their world view.

Take the Seth Rich "story". It's based on a single anonymous and unsubstantiated source. No one is on the record, they're only referred to as a "federal investigator". Or what about the report by annonomous sources in the FBI that Hillary Clinton was going to be indicted a few days before the election? Then when these turn out to be false they blindly follow the next lie like some battered wife that becomes more dependent the more she is beaten.

You'd think that having been lied too over and over again by their alternative media sources they'd figure it out. But they never do. You'd think that they'd grasp that if everyone they vote for wins office, yet their lives are so much worse off than people in the prosperous parts of the country with different politics... well maybe the people that are lying to them don't have their best interest at heart.
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It's cute that you left out examples from the mainstream media, who's supposed to be reliable, doing the same thing. And yes, your examples are valid, just obviously slanted.
 
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Absentglare said:
No it isn't. You're just confused when you claim that the media's accuracy is reflected in public opinion, which it is not.

What you're measuring is that a lot of gullible people were swindled by the coward in chief who cries about the media every time his lies are debunked.
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Reading is fundamental. I'm saying that the media bias doesn't reflect most of America, that's an entirely different thing than accuracy. If you want to talk about accuracy, they suck at that as well.

Right, all those city folks who do the real work aren't the real Americans, is that right?

Your ****ty argument is about the worst i've seen in this thread.
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You like making strawman to knock down? I never said they aren't real Americans. I simply said their extreme views don't reflect most of the rest of America.
 
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Only those who have something to hide are afraid of whistle blowers and anon sources.
 
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Taylor said:
To be fair, "how journalism works" depends a great deal on who's currently in office.
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oh bs...

You act like they don't have anyting to report or something. They are just covering what's going on.
 
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Erod said:
Your own people say there's no evidence of collusion, and he's done nothing beyond his powers.

So when are you going to have something?
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Yeah... well, the people actually doing the investigating say otherwise.
 
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Fishking said:
Reading is fundamental. I'm saying that the media bias doesn't reflect most of America, that's an entirely different thing than accuracy. If you want to talk about accuracy, they suck at that as well.



You like making strawman to knock down? I never said they aren't real Americans. I simply said their extreme views don't reflect most of the rest of America.
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The extreme views of President Trump don't reflect most of America, just one in four eligible voters voted for him. That also destroys your "media bais" argument built on your appeal to popularity fallacy, even if we don't consider it's a fallacy, because President Trump's views are not popular.
 
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Mason66 said:
Well an anonymous source told me the paper doesn't care about ethics anymore. We can all see that is true.
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Yup, well, I guess it's just Breitbart for you, then. Cause those guys only use the best sources.
 
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Cardinal said:
And the reporter is free to gamble his credibility on a source that is likely to be so unreliable. And when using such a source blows up as it predictably would, that reporter's low vetting standards will reflect very badly on the newspaper employing him, at which point he can expect to be swiftly fired and unemployable at any other respectable news organization.

That's the factor in the equation you guys are missing, and that's why these stories citing anonymous stories are turning out to be true in all the large points and "only" 98% true in the details.
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What gamble? Dan Rathers is still working isn't he? Being wrong so long as you damage a republican isn't something you get fired for in most media outlets.
 
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poweRob said:
oh bs...

You act like they don't have anyting to report or something. They are just covering what's going on.
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Roflmao... they're creating "what's going on"
 
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Cardinal said:
Yup, well, I guess it's just Breitbart for you, then. Cause those guys only use the best sources.
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Off topic, but whatever.

Does anybody use Breitbart anymore?
 
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Taylor said:
Roflmao... they're creating "what's going on"
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Whatever it takes to placate your imagination.
 
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