Investigative Issues: The Durham Report Indicts the Deep State—and the Media

• Investigative Issues: The Durham Report Indicts the Deep State—and the Media
  by Ben Weingarten, Newsweek, RealClearInvestigations, https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/
  Our ruling class will use any means necessary—no matter how lawless, vicious, or brazen—to preserve its power and privilege. And it will seemingly never pay a price for its corruption and criminality. That is the ultimate lesson conveyed in the more than three hundred pages of gory details about the republic-eroding scandal that is Russiagate, comprising Special Counsel John Durham’s final report. …
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  More than one Pulitzer prize was handed out for fraudulent Russia collusion stories. The Washington Post would eventually retract and remove portions of certain Pulitzer-winning stories. But many glaring errors remain uncorrected, and never apologized for.
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  As Tom Kuntz, a former longtime New York Times editor who helped edit the Gray Lady’s Pulitzer submissions in several years (and my editor at RealClearInvestigations) detailed back in 2019 amid the release of the Robert Mueller special counsel report showing no Trump-Russia collusion, the award-winning Russiagate “journalism” suffered from major deficiencies.
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  For one, as he noted, much of the award-winning work, in a parallel to the FBI and DOJ’s efforts, relied on anonymous sources “with insufficient skepticism and a lack of caveats in the service of a credulous and disingenuous journalism of innuendo.” …
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  Former New York Times reporter Jeff Gerth, in an expansive Columbia Journalism Review exposè in large part focused on the media’s coverage of Trump-Russia collusion, points out that Russian collusion-mongering publications failed to print countervailing facts, seek comment from those being scrutinized, and often cited as “government officials” or other purportedly neutral authorities partisan congressional leakers.
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