The New York Times’ recently hired media columnist Ben Smith, who spent the previous nine years as editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News as it grew into a media behemoth, did something Sunday night that very few other U.S. journalists would be willing to do: He published an unflinching and sometimes scathing critique of former-MSNBC-daytime-host-turned-widely-beloved-New-Yorker-star-investigative-reporter Ronan Farrow…
System Fail: The Mueller Report Is an Unmitigated Disaster for the American Press and the ‘Expert’ Class That it Promotes by Lee Smith…
It will take weeks for the elite pundit class to unravel all the possible implications and subtexts embedded in Robert Mueller’s final report on the charge that Donald Trump and his team colluded with Russia to fix the 2016 election. The right claims that the report exonerates Trump fully, while the left contends there are […]
61 Hacks Who Peddled Russian Collusion and Should Never Be Trusted Again…
We’re Naming and Shaming the Absolutely Worst Reporters on the Russian Collusion Conspiracy Theory…
PerkinsCoie Letter Relieving Fusion GPS of Privilege…
McCain and the Trump-Russia Dossier: What Did He Know, and When?…
Did John McCain and a controversial D.C. lobbying group conspire to get the infamous “pee dossier” into the hands of the press? A lawsuit making its way through court in the UK hopes to determine just what role the senator and his associates had in making the lurid dossier public. New filings in the lawsuit, […]
Russian Bank Owners Sue BuzzFeed over Trump Dossier Publication…
he owners of a Russian bank are suing BuzzFeed for publishing a dossier containing unproven claims that the businessmen were involved in bribing Russian President Vladimir Putin years ago and took part in an alleged Russian government scheme to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan of Alfa Bank […]