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How very odd for anyone to create such absolute fiction and publish it as factual journalism.
The modern Left lies reflexively. Their belief system doesn’t stand up to actual reasoned debate, so they have to make things up. This guy just got caught rather egregiously.
Reminder - he was CNN Journalist of the Year in 2014. Fake News is what it is, and here is yet another example.
There’s generally two types of journalists. One writes a forty-line piece to center on one basic story, with maybe three or four facts attached to it. In this case, you don’t need to spend more than a day talking to sources....getting insider info, and maybe developing a lead or two which hasn’t been noticed by anyone else.
The second type of journalist is the type that works for Time, Newsweek, German news magazines like Focus or Spegel, etc. This is where you kinda pretend you interviewed twenty to forty people, and you have two to four pages (with photos) to lay out this broad story. There are certain individuals who have a great talent of doing this. And then you have others who really can’t interview people that well, or get the story dynamic that they want for the magazine.
This guy is a failure at longer stories, and can’t tell any story but the story in his mind. He might go off for a year and eventually find some print-media group to hire him, but mandate someone review every single story that he turns in.
The "journalist" was a pure leftist who had a preconceived conclusion, then he pretended to gather facts for his story. Much like Comey deciding the guilt or innocence of whoever the FBI interviews, before he interviewed the person all based on the outcome he wanted.
“How very odd for anyone to create such absolute fiction and publish it as factual journalism.”
The first time I observed it was in the early 1980s. I’m sure it had been going on before that.
I don’t think it is odd at all. I think it is the general nature of journalists who have the goal of furthering their agenda. They must twist and lie about facts to make them fit. I think in journalism we have reached the point where most of it is made up.
Every recent article I have read that I have any knowledge of turns out not to be accurate. Major mistakes made in facts that are easily searched in 5 minutes online. I have come to the conclusion most journalists, reporters no longer care about the facts or the truth. Most are lefties and have you ever tried to get a lefty to listen to or consider facts that don’t fit with their agenda? Impossible.
Go read anything in the MSM about Utah. In the world of the MSM, the only thing this guy did wrong was get caught.