The timing is clearly going to raise questions. But the fact that non-reporters believe their partisan analysis over actual reporting is a facet of the whole fake news problem in the first placehttps://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/968964744613900288 …
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Weird, we have another report from Erin Burnett that her departure was based on something she said in the House interview. I guess you’re saying Erin Burnett is fake news and yours is the real one Ryan.
Saying that there is conflicting reporting is different than just simply disbelieving a report with no other information to go on, right?
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I disbelieve White House staff regularly. The fact you don’t is more of a worry, I hazard a guess.
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Come on, you know I’m not taking the word of White House staff. Hicks has been telling people since the weekend she was leaving. That’s not from WH sources. But believe what you want.
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But the original reports said "a long time". Now it's "the weekend". Soon it will be "after trump yelled at her about the 'white lie' bit (reported by CNN)"
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The original reports said she has been talking about it a long time. Told people her decision had been made over the weekend. Ryan is correct and the report that it was about the committee is inaccurate.
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CNN is wrong and you are right? In a world where there’s a lot of lying, you are asking the public to unquestionably accept your judgment of whether anonymous sources are lying or not. I would respectfully suggest that to not accept it is legit skepticism, not fake news.
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Respectfully, people are going to believe what they want. I am standing by my reporting, as I'm sure Erin Burnett is standing by hers. But, respectfully, choosing to believe one over the other because it fits a narrative is also dangerous.
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Sure. But when there are two conflicting accounts, maybe some of us believe the news that fits a pretty clear pattern, not a narrative we like. Rather than assume otherwise, you could accept that possibility.
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This entire exercise forces us to believe that a PR professional selected not just an imperfect time but the least perfect time to leave. A little skepticism is reasonable.
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The White House staff lies All The Time. A public that is skeptical of reporting that relies on that sourcing is to be applauded, not shamed. Especially when multiple news sources have another explanation. You guys use the pathetic term fake news here, not me.
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You start to doubt when it is reported she has been planning to quit for "months". She has only been on the job for 5 months
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Glenn Greenwald’s Intercept is not exactly a source that’s considered “reliable”.
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The Intercept is not exactly a source that’s considered relevant. It’s a little vanity project for Greenwald with an ever shrinking readership. Maybe if Glenn spent a lot less time on Twitter and more time being a journalist, he could make the Intercept into a real journal.
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GG is famous for accepting what White House officials anonymously say at face value in good faith...wait hold on a second here!
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Lol you work for the Intercept. You’ve been wrong on these stories for more than a year. You really expect to be taken seriously?
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Maggie doesn't like that we question or doubt her sources. Why would she want us to believe what they say? If she got it wrong who is to blame? Her? Her sources? Why is she pushing her sources agenda?
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When John Mitchell resigned, they said it was to spend more time with his family. Now, one can say he really did need to do that (c.f. Slow Burn). But it was also B.S. When shoes are dropping everywhere, disbelief should be the default.
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The issue isn’t decrying everything we don’t like as fake. It’s that extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence, and the evidence that the timing is *unrelated* to recent events isn’t extraordinary (as presented thus far).
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Shut up shill.
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But there IS another report to go on. So...
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