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After the Killian documents controversy, the onus is on the publisher to authenticate this type information before they publish it, not on the public to believe

After the Killian documents controversy, the onus is on the publisher to authenticate this type information before they publish it, not on the public to believe it until it is shown to be inauthentic. In that event, the Republican candidate was hurt by a forgery that then resulted in the resignation of Dan Rather, a very prominent news anchor. In the impeachment case, that was not a case of the press digging up a document and making an accusation. It was the release of an accusation made to an inspector general. In and of itself, that is news. The fact that the white house was trying to prevent the release of the inspector general complaint to the Congress was also news. At that point, the veracity of the claim needs to be determined, and opinions clearly differed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy

mainstreem 6y ago
> After the Killian documents controversy, the onus is on the publisher to authenticate this type information before they publish it The problem is that this is not the standard that has been applied to the Left, e.g. the story in the Atlantic about the President disparaging troops, which was based on an anonymous source and even John Bolton, who wrote a whole book talking trash about Trump, said it didn't actually happen. And what about that book by #Anonymous which not only was published (I guess the onus wasn't on THAT publisher) but was bandied about in the rest of the mainstream media as a brilliant expose written by.... an unverifiable person. Who was supposed to reveal themselves before the election, but that went down the memory hole. There have been many, many stories based on weaker evidence that the media has trotted out to judge Trump by, and then when the evidence is more closely examined, the accusations go down the memory hole. The whole story about Carter Page should've been front page news. The FBI under direction of a Democrat interfered with a Republican's campaign. This was the same FBI leadership that dismissed an investigation against the Democrat with stronger evidence during the same election. Then, James Comey, head of the FBI at the time of both of those events, after being rightfully fired, went on to disparage the President every chance he got. But the American people, well, I guess we don't have a right to know what's on Hunter's laptop. Newsflash: he was engaged in a quid-pro-quo with Ukraine with the help of his father. Trump was impeached for investigating that corruption. And that's the truth.
- projektfu 6y ago
  It’s the standard I apply, right or left. I don’t edit those organizations.
- ZeteticElench 6y ago
  "Trump was impeached for investigating that corruption. And that's the truth. " No, that is pure GOP propaganda.

mainstreem 6y ago

> After the Killian documents controversy, the onus is on the publisher to authenticate this type information before they publish it The problem is that this is not the standard that has been applied to the Left, e.g. the story in the Atlantic about the President disparaging troops, which was based on an anonymous source and even John Bolton, who wrote a whole book talking trash about Trump, said it didn't actually happen. And what about that book by #Anonymous which not only was published (I guess the onus wasn't on THAT publisher) but was bandied about in the rest of the mainstream media as a brilliant expose written by.... an unverifiable person. Who was supposed to reveal themselves before the election, but that went down the memory hole. There have been many, many stories based on weaker evidence that the media has trotted out to judge Trump by, and then when the evidence is more closely examined, the accusations go down the memory hole. The whole story about Carter Page should've been front page news. The FBI under direction of a Democrat interfered with a Republican's campaign. This was the same FBI leadership that dismissed an investigation against the Democrat with stronger evidence during the same election. Then, James Comey, head of the FBI at the time of both of those events, after being rightfully fired, went on to disparage the President every chance he got. But the American people, well, I guess we don't have a right to know what's on Hunter's laptop. Newsflash: he was engaged in a quid-pro-quo with Ukraine with the help of his father. Trump was impeached for investigating that corruption. And that's the truth.

projektfu 6y ago
It’s the standard I apply, right or left. I don’t edit those organizations.
ZeteticElench 6y ago
"Trump was impeached for investigating that corruption. And that's the truth. " No, that is pure GOP propaganda.