ASPartOfMe wrote:
The widespread media claims and implications that the original NY Post report was Russian disinformation was media malpractice. If the end of trying to stop Trump from being reelected was justified the means is a value judgment. The price is making the difficult job of convincing the public the Mar a Lago raid was legit more difficult and handing the MAGA's an unnecessary advantage while adding to their already considerable paranoia.
Yup, just like all the public health agencies turning on a dime from "you can't bury grandma because of the plague" to "racism is the real pandemic, knock yourselves out" in the span of about a week, they're never getting their credibility back. This is my other unpleasant gut feeling about 2020, that if Trump's crazy story were true, that there really was widespread election fraud, that the mainstream media wouldn't tell us, that they'd in fact endeavor to bury it deeper than they've ever buried anything before. The FBI telling Facebook to suppress the story is just icing on the cake, it's like the perfect validation of every "trust no one" paranoid belief out there.
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