Misinformation Review

The NY Times is still pushing false misinformation:

The Times story says that Trump and his team “are effectively institutionalizing disinformation.” The story continues: Audrey McCabe, an analyst at Common Cause, a nonpartisan government watchdog, said the administration had pursued a strategy of 'disinformation overload' that was overwhelming not only its opponents but also the judicial system. And then the Times goes on to say: False narratives that once percolated in the darker corners of the internet are now advanced by Mr. Trump and his appointees and amplified by a media echo chamber, muddying the political discourse and compounding a broader erosion of trust in institutions themselves. Talk about a lack of self-awareness or self-reflection, not to mention “effectively institutionalizing disinformation”??!!! And what does the Times not report in this story? Recall this headline from Hans Von Spakovsky and Stephanie Luiz of the Heritage Foundation, writing over here at Fox News back there in the stone age of 2021: Will New York Times, Washington Post return Pulitzer for misleading Russia collusion stories? This is not the first time the prize was awarded for misleading and discredited coverage This story decidedly unmentioned by the Times reports: In 2018, journalists from The New York Times and The Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for their biased and inaccurate coverage of Russia’s alleged collaboration with the Trump campaign to interfere with the 2016 election, a claim we now know was a hoax. So when are they going to return the prize? ….In a series of 10 articles, Times reporters propagated a narrative detailing fictitious connections between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign, the president’s transition team, and the administration. The Mueller investigation as well as the Senate Intelligence Committee affirmed that there is no evidence that President Trump or his staff conspired with the Russian government to impact the 2016 election. Special Counsel John Durham is now indicting some of those who were involved in creating what amounted to a political hoax that dogged the Trump administration for years. Despite these findings, and the inaccuracies in the Times’ articles, the Pulitzer Prize board has not repealed the award. (Note that all principals are alive and perfectly capable of responding.) Safe to say, - were there a prize for this “institutionalizing of disinformation” (to use The Times own characterization) on the utterly phony Trump/Russia hoax-The Times would have won hands down.

One paper's hoax is another's false story...