Posted on 06/20/2018 5:31:44 PM PDT by richardb72
Many members of the media act like leaks of government information are coming from whistleblowers who are compelled by their consciences to do the right thing. But over the last week, that image has taken a real beating.
It has recently surfaced that New York Times reporter Ali Watkins may have had an affair with James Wolfe, the former security director for the Senate Intelligence Committee. Wolfe is 32 years her senior. The New York Times is still investigating, but there appears to be a real concern that the “meteoric” and “stunning” rise of Watkins as a star reporter may have come about in part by using sex to induce Wolfe to give her classified documents.
It doesn’t help Watkins’s case that, in 2013, she asked her Twitter followers what they thought of using sex to obtain information. In reference to the House of Cards TV series, she posed the question: “So on a scale of 1 to ethical, how does everyone feel about pulling a @RealZoeBarnes for story ideas?”
The report released on Thursday by the Department of Justice’s Inspector General warns: “We identified instances where FBI employees improperly received benefits from reporters, including tickets to sporting events, golfing outings, drinks and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social events.” The DOJ report finds that such enticements likely led agents to leak information, and points out FBI policy’s “clear and unambiguous” intolerance for this.
James Wolfe has been arrested and the inspector general has indicated that charges may be brought against the FBI agents who leaked information to reporters. But no one has so far suggested going after the reporters, who are themselves criminally liable for bribing government officials. Reporters can use information volunteered by a whistleblower, but bribes are a completely different story.
So far nothing has happened to....
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We don’t have a media system in the United States any longer.
What we have is a massive propaganda and political machine, that works in a decidedly coordinated manor to brainwash the people they have convinced to have a grievance against this nation and decent God fearing, nation and fellow man loving citizens.
Rush has been harping on this, and he’s right.
The traditional media no longer exists.
What we hear from their old outlets, is just pure propaganda. It matters not if it is clever lies or blatant lies as long as it moves their agenda.
The sooner folks awaken to this reality, the better.
Nothing like blowing sources for scoops
I don’t know how much non-political types are paying attention to the skeezy sources. Mostly, its been all about the family separations, or Russia, or the endless litany of complaints. On the one hand, I’m concerned about the polling numbers. On the other hand, I think I get what the man is doing and am looking forward to apoplexy on the Left I feel very certain is to come, so maybe not so worried about the polling after all!
The media is the deep state.
Eisenhower warned about them Military-Industrial Complex.
Today’s Democrat-Media Complex is a FAR bigger threat to the survival of the Republic. The Deep State is definitely the Democrat-Media Complex.
James Wolfe POS SWAMPCREATURE.
LOCK HIM UP!
(It’s gotta start somewhere)
The problem I have is that the news is a bit like running into that one person we all know who is desperately unhappy, unhealthily obsessed, and endlessly telling anyone who doesn’t run fast enough all about it.
Sex in exchange for something of value ... so isn’t that still prostitution, regardless of whether the value received is something tangible, like money, or intangible, like information?
Great analogy. I’ll have to steal that.
only about 50 million conservatives want the reporters prosecuted
only about 50 million conservatives want the reporters prosecuted
name the reporters who gave “gifts” to FBI agents...and the agents who received them.
then we can compare with the Clinton-friendly reporters exposed in the Podesta emails.
MSM has played a central role in the attempt to stop Trump winning the Presidency...and the attempt at a coup once he became President. and they haven’t stopped yet.
Why would you think national news reporting in the 1960s, for example, was any better than today? There were only three TV networks, a few more radio networks, and mostly local newspapers that got most of their news from AP/UPI wire services. They all pretty much interpreted the news from the same liberal angle. State and local news was probably better back in the good ol’ days since a city of any size at all would have at least two competing daily newspapers looking for a scoop.
What is fabulous is that McClatchy newspapers, who Ali Watkins interned for, Buzzfeed who paid Ali Watkins salary, and Ali Watkins current employer the New York Times all knew she was sleeping with her source. It appears these “news” publications have mighty low standards.
Journalism standard is TWO sources for any story. So who else did she f***?
Given that dc seems the cesspool that it seems,one way to answer would involve the use of a monkey and a dartboard
Sex, booze, and sporting events.
The LEFT MEDIA CARTEL
Nothing new here. She’s just another NY Times media “whore”. You don’t have to physically screw in order to be a whore. Most liberal writers do it with a computer.
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