The Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple has for many months been upfront in asking the paper to come clean about their egregiously bad reporting on the Steele dossier. We noted a couple of days ago that the Post has gone as far as to add a disclaimer of sorts to their story about the indictment of Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst who worked on the dossier. The Post’s story on the arrest concludes this way:
Quote: “The allegations cast new uncertainty on some past reporting on the dossier by news organizations, including The Washington Post.” https://t.co/EyAoDOaRJl
— Brit Hume (@brithume) November 5, 2021
The Post continues to try and work their way through without making any retractions, which Wemple says might be necessary:
There's bad news for media in the Igor Danchenko indictment: https://t.co/9yZtXgB6qP
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) November 8, 2021
Journalist Glenn Greenwald goes through what seems to be unfolding, starting with Wemple explaining why retractions might be necessary:
https://t.co/mG9yWQtV6i pic.twitter.com/9RuKqkUqcN
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 8, 2021
A media critic attempting to get comment from his own paper but to no avail just sums it all up perfectly:
Absolutely bizarre that the @WashingtonPost has a media reporter covering the industry's systemic failures on Russiagate and the Steele Dossier, and the Post's Executive Editor refuses to answering their own reporter's questions, citing a vague, empty statement she released. pic.twitter.com/EksdOhrf4Y
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 8, 2021
This is something I realized very early on after I began writing about politics. Few institutions refuse transparency the way corporate media do. They (ostensibly) demand transparency from everyone else, but so often refuse to answer basic questions about their own conduct.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 8, 2021
They’re just hoping it all goes away. How very “journalism” of them.
Essential thread. Day of reckoning for all major news outlets, European ones included. https://t.co/GY4PQoCPGJ
— Willem Dezwijger (@Zwijgerspreekt) November 8, 2021
This was front page headline news for years. So the retraction should be required to be front page headline news as well.
Ah well, we can dream…
— nameless hermit (@DarkAgeMonk) November 8, 2021
LOL! If anything it’ll be buried inside the paper and in the smallest print possible.
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