Bliss, Trump was advised NOT to fire Mueller right after he just fired Comey, both of whom were investigating the Russia/Trump conspiracy, because it would be perceived by Congress as a Constitutional crisis and a clear case of obstruction of justice.
It would be like Trump was asking to be impeached on principle.
You can't keep firing investigators because you don't like what they might find.
As for you needing to read WHO the sources are, that's not how political reporting works in D.C. Most leads come from unnamed sources.
This isn't Breitbart or WND. MSN didn't build their reputation by spreading propaganda and made up stories.
IMO you've been reading so much right wing conspiracy news feeds, you can't filter it from real news.
You probably don't believe either Trump's personal attorney paid porn star $150,000 in hush money before the primaries.smh
LOL. It's still funny to me you're questioning the journalistic integrity of Der Spiegel or the NYT.
". LOL. It's still funny to me you're questioning the journalistic integrity of Der Spiegel or the NYT" - AB
I don't deal with hypotheticals in journalism. It's integrity is too important to me.
Honestly, posting their questionable integrity list is so long, you don't even have to read them, just know they exist, ok...
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1.) In 2003, the
Times admitted that
Jayson Blair, one of its reporters, had committed repeated
journalistic fraud over a span of several years. The general professionalism of the paper was questioned, though Blair immediately resigned following the incident. The paper's top two editors –
Howell Raines, the executive editor, and
Gerald M. Boyd, managing editor – resigned their posts following the incident.
2.) Second Iraq War
Judith Miller wrote a series of exclusive and prominently displayed articles "strongly suggest[ing] Saddam Hussein already had or was acquiring an arsenal of
weapons of mass destruction"
[8] using
Ahmad Chalabi as her source prior to the
2003 invasion of Iraq. This aided the Bush administration in making the case for war.
3.)
Valerie Plame affair
In October 2005,
Times reporter
Judith Miller was released from prison after 85 days, when she agreed to testify to
special prosecutorPatrick Fitzgerald’s grand jury after receiving a personal waiver, both on the phone and in writing, of her earlier confidential source agreement with
Lewis "Scooter" Libby. No other reporter whose testimony had been sought in the case had received such a direct and particularized release. Her incarceration has helped fuel an effort in Congress to enact a federal
shield law, comparable to the state shield laws which protect reporters in 31 of the 50 states. After her second appearance before the grand jury, Miller was released from her contempt of court finding. Miller resigned from the paper on November 9, 2005.
4.) On Monday, September 10, 2007, the
Timesran a full-page advertisement for
MoveOn.orgvquestioning the integrity of General
David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, entitled “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?” The Times only charged
MoveOn.org, a liberal activist group, $65,000 for the advertisement that, according to public relations director Abbe Serphos, normally costs around $181,692, or roughly a 64% discount. Serphos declined to explain the discount. Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis denied the rate charged indicated a political bias.
MoveOn later paid the
Times the full rate once the newspaper publicly acknowledged that "an advertising sales representative made a mistake.
5.) In their book
Manufacturing Consent,
Edward Herman and
Noam Chomsky analyze a variety of major U.S. media outlets, with an emphasis on the
Times...from the book:
"...by selection of topics, by distribution of concerns, by emphasis and framing of issues, by filtering of information, by bounding of debate within certain limits. They determine, they select, they shape, they control, they restrict — in order to serve the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society."
"...history is what appears in The New York Times archives; the place where people will go to find out what happened is The New York Times. Therefore it's extremely important if history is going to be shaped in an appropriate way, that certain things appear, certain things not appear, certain questions be asked, other questions be ignored, and that issues be framed in a particular fashion.
.cont....
