Marcy Wheeler, also known as @emptywheel, appeared on a panel today at Columbia University and shed additional light on her decision to voluntarily hand over a source to the FBI. I was so honored to be able to ask her a question. Here's the exchange:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkkl_RbCKig …
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I should clarify that
@keithgessen did ask Ben Smith about tangential aspects of the Cohen story but didn't address the core "debunking" -- meaning that the reporters stood by the story for almost 5 months and didn't admit it was wrong till last week. Should've been more preciseShow this thread -
It also wasn't addressed that Smith publicly defended the story on numerous occasions after it was obviously untenable (including on Fox News with me) and it was only after the Mueller Report was issued -- four months later -- that BuzzFeed effectively retracted the story
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Nonetheless, I should have been more precise in my characterization.
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My basic problem with this panel (and with media chatter post-Mueller Report more generally) is that none of the questions posed were premised on the media having done anything wrong. Rather, it was almost self-congratulatory. This was an epic fiasco and they won't acknowledge it
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Ultimately, accountability is never going to come from within these insular elite spheres. They require non-accountability as a self-defense, and self-sustainment mechanism. It will have to be imposed from the outside. They’re just too far gone
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It was free in Ireland, when I went. I think there’s something like a €2,000 ‘registration charge’ now. Which may explain why a large proportion of Irish journalists come from working class, or lower middle class, backgrounds. Which doesn’t seem to be the case in the US.
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It was before the 1960s. An "education industrial complex" got built up after WW2, fed by the GI bill, then the baby boomers, now govt guaranteed loans.
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Michael, it is painfully obvious that you never went to a journalism school; you don't have to brag about it.
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For 12 months lol
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It's mostly about networking. Kind of like the shake-up system the mob (used to ?) exercise on the docks of New York. If you want to work, you've gotta pay.
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$152,000 for one year to be subjected to Marcy Wheeler (empty wheel indeed) and Buzzfeed Ben Smith. Holy
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Probably why these ghouls have to sell whatever soul they have left to the corporate media.
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How to ensure the media is an echo-chamber for the comfy
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Probably get a stipend if you get accepted, depending on the program. Who are they accepting though, I wonder; all establishment types?
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That's bullshit. I becme an RN by going to a vocational LPN course (10 months) then taking American College Testing Nursing tests...6 of them, then doing a 3 day clinical exam in Milwaukee. People won't investigate alternative methods and programs to reach goals!
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A person can get full credit by taking the ACT (NOT the one for college entrance) tests for a core curriculum. The American College Tests are equivalent to a college course. They were 50 bucks eavh when I got my RN. Most universities accept the credits.
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So my RN cost about 2000 bucks total.
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