When the media's credibility is under attack, rushing stories out before checking facts and contacting the subject is hard to comprehend.
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That said, journalism is hard and mistakes happen. When they do, as in this Maddow case, apologies should be frank and unequivocal.
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When we start getting economical with facts, we lose. This important story was mangled by needlessly injected an unsupportable conspiracy.
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Each time the media gets a prominent story wrong right now, I wince. More than egg on a famous face, it risks a generation's trust in news.
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If our most famous journalists are so proud they can't admit to what is now an obvious error, how can they hope to hold the public trust?
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Most folks can't read three different papers every day. If we don't set the highest standard, many give up and say the truth is unknowable.
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That is the twilight of an age.
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You missed the #1 spot. Fox! The biggest brainwashing crew on the planet

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I think everyone in the thread you retweeted missed the point of the story. The point is of the effort to dupe media, not the source.
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As I recall, she kept speculation on sources to a minimum, merely warning and emphasizing that SOMEONE was trying to pwn media outlets.
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There's this odd idea in that thread that maddow was pointing fingers, which isn't at all what happened.
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Why is that? Snowden & Greenwald are all bent out of shape & Maddow's story ultimately had nothing to do with them.
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Snowden & Greenwald are totally spreading bullshit. Watch Rachel's actual show. Her "timeline" didn't attack The Intercept one bit.
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They're angry she reminded ppl the woman who gave them the doc was arrested; but she didn't even blame the Intercept-tho it was their fault
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Not at all. Maddow reported "sombody" forged American names into new faked NSA docs, using what NSA docs Winner already leaked to Intercept.
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@brianbeutler@ggreenwald@maddow why is it when Fox news constantly provides crap info that there isn't this same 'omg' response? -
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That's because all Fox does is broadcast false info. One big Trump propaganda machine.
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But Maddow didn't broadcast fake news. This handwringing by Snowden & Greenwald is something else.
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