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But they never presented it as factual. What was "true" was that they reported on a 35 page dossier created by a former British intelligence official. In fact,
by tmccrmck 10y ago
But they never presented it as factual. What was "true" was that they reported on a 35 page dossier created by a former British intelligence official.
In fact, they never even released the dossier -- they only reported that the classified documents were presented to Obama and Trump. Your post is some serious disinformation.
- TheGirondin 10y agoOk, so that's the template that make fake news legitimate. 1) Get a dossier from an anonymous source claiming X did Y. According to you, it doesn't even have to exist. 2) Report on the existence of the dossier, making sure to click-bait the hell out the Y. 3) When criticized, respond that you are are "just reporting." How well would it go over with you if Fox had started reporting on the existence of an a dossier from an anonymous source saying that former President Obama had a faked birth certificate?
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Get a dossier from an anonymous source The source (unless you are referring to some intermediary source that delivered the dossier to the media rather than the original source) is not anonymous; media covered his background more than his identity because "former British intelligence officer" conveys more meaningful information than "Christopher Steele".
- yongjik 10y ago1) Get a dossier that can be traced to a British intelligence officer, which is so damning that John McCain decided to deliver it personally to the director of FBI. FTFY. But if you have, say, an email sent by Bill Clinton to NSA urging to investigate Obama's secret Kenyan birthplace as documented by an officer of Mossad, feel free to share with us.