Ben Smith's rationale for publishing the "dodgy dossier" is worth listening to, whether or not you ultimately agree.https://twitter.com/msnbc/status/819316938811719683 …
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Especially if it's actually shaping officials' behavior. The fact that *this* is the document's content seems significant.
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I think Buzzfeed could have done a way better job with how they framed it, but the doc itself is news.
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Why does Buzzfeed have access to documents circulating the highest levels of government?
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why would any document, unverified, questionable n proven fake be circulated at all by a US Senator and hack guised as a journalist
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I don't need to see their used toliet paper either.
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Because we would have had the same reaction we're having today. "IT'S FAKE NEWS!"
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The claim is the public can't handle it, which is hard to reconcile with democracy, where everyone has political power thru voting.
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related question: does the seeming exclusivity add to the illusion of seriousness?
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McCain made certain the document was "circulated at the highest levels". It's a circular argument w/ no ethics by anyone involved.
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This doc seems to be what all the Russian agent accusations were based on. And the doc is clearly nutty. Surely that's newsworthy
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And you can't see how nutty it is unless you read it. If you summarize it, it can be made to sound as if it may be credible
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Problem is not that they published it full-stop, but that they did so (purposely) with zero independent fact checking.
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I like the decision but in fake news hysteria no one is critically thinking why they did so essentially it was harmful/ineffective
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My problem isn't the ethics, it's that Buzzfeed is not a source with contingency to backup any claims, nor a good reputation...
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That's why I see WL posting something credible, not Buzzfeed, and the holes in this story are compounding, never happened for WL.
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SURE, release it, but explain why it is transparently phoney, explain who wrote it and who is promoting it.
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