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The first years of Trump administration were dominated by media coverage that was obsessed with the Steele dossier, and the subsequent investigation. Evening news broadcasts on ABC, CBS and NBC (January 20, 2017 – July 20, 2019)Alleine devotedIncredible 2,634 MinutesIt is possible.
In the Russian collusion hoax, however, another pillar is now in place.
Continue reading Thursday, Special Prosecutor John Durham Submitted Russian national Igor Danchenko — who was the primary source in the infamous and debunked dossier — into court on charges of lying to the FBI with his information.
So how much time have the broadcast evening news shows (ABC’s World News Tonight CBS Evening News NBC Nightly News() was spent on the Danchenko Indictment November 4, 8 and 9?
Zero seconds
On Sunday, journalist Glenn Greenwald underscored the media’s complicity: “So, the fact that what we’re learning isn’t just that the dossier was false but it was a deliberate fraud perpetrated by people in the Clinton world working with their media allies to spread this lie during the election implicates the entire media.”
This is quite a difference from the time that the evening nets spent initially on the hoax.
Former MRC Research Director Rich Noyes We crunched the numbers.
The Russia Collusion Cloud: During the President’s first year in office one-fifth of all broadcast evening news coverage was spent on the Russia investigation, wrapping Trump in a perpetual cloud of suspicion and stealing valuable airtime away from key administration initiatives. By the time it ended in 2019, those three newscasts alone had spent an astounding 2,634 minutes on the Mueller probe, yammering endlessly about a “constitutional crisis” even as they buried crucial questions surrounding the investigation’s bias.
While The Big Three evening news and also morning shows (ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, NBC’s TodayFNC continues to report on the Durham Indictment.
On the November 7 edition of FNC’s MediaBuzz, host Howard Kurtz and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald underlined how devastating Danchenko’s arrest is to the media’s credibility:
GLENN GREENWALD: They’re just ignoring these indictments and the content of them that demonstrates that the entire narrative with which they were obsessed for four years — that Trump was controlled by Putin through blackmail — was an out and out falsehood, a fraud.
HOWARD KURTZ: Yes, I do mean the New York TimesDid break the news about the indictment The Washington PostThis sentence was mine, although I made sure to credit the Special Report that night. “It allegations cast new uncertainty on some past reporting on the dossier by news organizations including The Washington Post.” But that little bit of a mea culpa aside. What does this say about the media mindset that ABC NBC, CBS on their evening newscasts didn’t devote one second to these criminal charges against Danchenko for lying to the bureau?
GREENWALD: So, what they’re trying to do, Howie, their strategy is to pretend that this is only about the Steele dossier which was covered only by cable crazies like Rachel Maddow and people like that, they’re kind of trying to scapegoat her and pretend that the real serious journalistic institutions like The New York TimesS and the Post that gave Pulitzers or were given Pulitzers for this story were actually serious journalists who didn’t fall for any of this.
However, Michael Isikoff is one of first journalists to press the Steele dossier. He admitted that this dossier set the standards and provided the context for the investigation. It was clear that there had been an ongoing criminal cooperation between Trump’s world and Russia in order to interfere with Donald Trump’s election. The Kremlin managed Donald Trump, and could therefore get him to do anything they pleased.
This dossier was the source of all the subsequent information. So, the fact that what we’re learning isn’t just that the dossier was false but it was a deliberate fraud perpetrated by people in the Clinton world working with their media allies to spread this lie during the election implicates the entire media. There is one sentence in particular that I forgot to mention. Washington Post article, “Oh this calls into question some of our past reporting.” I guess it’s better than nothing but it’s kind of shocking that that’s all they are going to do in passing — is just to say “Yeah, I guess it maybe actually shows that much of what we said was wrong.”
KURTZ It Washington PostThe other day. Many people are unable to see the Steele dossier, which was created by Christopher Steele. BuzzFeed published this information in 2017 without knowing it to be true.
But it contained these totally salacious and totally unverified allegations about Donald Trump including about prostitutes and so forth that kind of made it into the media culture even for people who don’t even know what the Steele dossier is.
GREENWALD : It, Howie was, without any other close, the most widely covered story about the Trump presidency.
KURTZ – The Russia investigation overall.
GREENWALD – The notion that Trump collaborated and was aided by the Russians.
KURTZ: Yeah.
GREENWALD. Russiagate is the claim that Russia overtook Donald Trump. This was a very serious accusation that Moscow or the Kremlin infiltrated institutions. So, you can slice it up however you want, we didn’t talk about the Steele dossier, we only talk about — but the overall narrative of the Trump presidency that came from the liberal sector of the media is proving to be a fraud and not an innocent one but a deliberate and coordinated one that came from a union between Clinton operatives, the security state services, the FBI and the CIA, and the corporate media. They are those who drowned in our politics with this fraud for at least three-four years.
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