Thursday, October 6, 2016

Media orgs like the Times eroded all their credibility trying to elect previous Democratic candidates by telling readers things were definitively false when readers damn well knew otherwise.







6/ ...feat that is surely unprecedented. Organized opposition from Vietnam veterans had to be expected. Did Swift Vets get a bit over... 7/ ...their skis questioning the circumstances that earned Kerry Silver Star? Perhaps. But the allegations weren't crazy, and Kerry has a... 8/ ...demonstrable record of lying about his service. The Swift Vets making the allegations were not similarly untrustworthy.

9/ And today we have the editor of the New York Times citing the Swift Vets as “just false” in the process of wondering why Americans.. 10/ .



12/ ...credibility trying to elect previous Democratic candidates by telling readers things were definitively false when readers damn... 13/ ...well knew otherwise. In fact, “Swift Vets” is now some sort of media pejorative, even though it's an Orwellian distortion of... 14/ ...the facts. It was only a matter of time before a mountebank such as Trump exploited this lack of trust. And it won't be the last,... 15/ ...unless the media clean up their act and try to make at least a good faith effort not to decide every election. Fin.

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