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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Nobody's claiming that the theory presented here is 100% true or false. Just that there's sufficient cause to view it as at least plausible.
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After more than a year, no dispositive evidence has been presented for the provenance of the DNC hack. Alternate theories should be *sought*
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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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Liberals and
#Resistance types have been quickest to stigmatize because they can immediately cast skepticism as somehow Defending Trump™3 replies 27 retweets 96 likes
As @Bershidsky notes in his column, this could well be an "an Iraq-sized mistake." And the media will once again be to blame.
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It's not a mistake though - it's intentional.
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