Is anyone at the WaPo going to face repercussions for this monumental error? Or does everybody there "fail upward"https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/816126254407622656 …
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They've got a preexisting belief -- Russia maliciously "hacking" -- and fish for any evidence confirming that belief https://twitter.com/peterfeld/status/816328817295953920 …
@peterfeld It's almost like WaPo understands how to use confirmation bias, or something.
.@peterfeld @mtracey Great observation!
You forgot to add that they are paid a ton of money to make the right errors at the right time.
and that if they didn't publish a particular fake story they are more likely to risk their jobs as journalists
I wonder who their source is... I wish those beating Wikileaks to name their source would ask the same of Washington post
all they do is print in article "unnamed US official"
not just errors, but crimes as well.
.@mtracey Glenn Thrush to NYTimes...
But the intented result was reached, that #falsenews was published in the whole world.
As far as I know, Billy Kristol still has a job after the Iraq war debacle and people still pay to hear his terrible ideas.
fake news in aid of establishment seems not to be punished
Spiritual sacrifice for the sake of job integrity?
the most severe error is having non-approved opinions
There is a HUGE sanction. Bezos-run WAPO takes yet another credibility hit.
-Ha! Rampant in U. S. culture, just just in media corporations.
MSM are the new weather forecasters of America - no consequences for getting it VERY wrong, VERY often
#meritocracy
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