Steadfast unwillingness to entertain alternate theories about 'Russian hacking' is a severe collective media failurehttps://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-10/why-some-u-s-ex-spies-don-t-buy-the-russia-story …
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Instead, any attempt to proffer alternate theories gets immediately cast as conspiratorial, pro-Russia, or whatever other smear is in vogue.
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And it's true that there is a conspiratorial tint to some of these theories. But a responsible, diligent media could sort through the junk.
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Instead they're content spout Intelligence Community-backed conventional wisdom and stigmatize any dissenting opinion.
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#Resistance types have been quickest to stigmatize because they can immediately cast skepticism as somehow Defending Trump™ -
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@Bershidsky notes in his column, this could well be an "an Iraq-sized mistake." And the media will once again be to blame. - 1 more reply
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Patrick Lawrence wrote in the Nation. Scott Ritter also did in the new American conservative. Meanwhile FBI does not inspect the DNC servers
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Haley (UN Amb.) Coats (Dir. of Nat Int.) Pompeo (CIA Dir) Kelly(HL Sec and now C of S) all Trump appointees all say "no doubt"
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The media reminds me of a cop who's already decided who is guilty of the crime & won't investigate any other possibilities and Railroad him
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