Post #166 is where the coward decided to go off-topic; Mother Jones was the first to report on the Steele dossiers and then Buzz Feed published the dossiers themselves. Once that took place a slew of liberal media outlets ALL began reporting on the dossiers...which was my point all along!I know you don't "give a shit" because the story plays into your viewpoint! It's why the liberal media go with stories like the phony Steele dossiers...because people like you will eat it up with a spoon!
My point was that supposedly legitimate journalists see a story that they'd love to go with because it fits their political viewpoint...but know that as journalists that they shouldn't run stories without verifying that the story is indeed factual. They get around that however by "reporting" on a story that someone ELSE has done! That way they can say "Oh, well that wasn't OUR story...that was Rolling Stone's story...we were just reporting on what THEY reported on!" I'm sorry but that's not ethical journalism!
DOOD. I posted sixteen separate reports of this story. Then I added a few more. The point was, and still is, that all these wags trying the old Poison the Well Fallacy by going "Mother Jones huh huh huh snicker snicker" are thereby exposed for that fallacy. DEAL with it.
It's also telling that such a fallacy was all they could come up with in flailing defense of the Cult.
And no I don't believe RS originated it. I suspect it was one of the Miami media.
I never said that RS originated it. I was simply using them as an example of a media outlet that doesn't feel compelled to comply with journalistic standards.
And where in the link are they falling short there?
And what about the other twenty sources?
Can you not grasp the concept that NONE of those twenty sources actually vetted the accusations that were IN the Steele dossiers? That they went with the story because it validated their view of Donald Trump?
Who the fuck brought up "Steele dossiers [sic]"? This thread has nothing to do with "Steele dossiers [sic]".