The Revered MSM Keeps Looking Bad, Yet CNN Actually Does Some Journalism

 https://x.com/lyndseyfifield/status/2076454714716180733?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "I gave CNN the very same messages, diaries, and sources I gave the New York Times. NYT reported that my sources “couldn't corroborate” my claims. Thankfully, CNN *actually called them* and verified that yes, they corroborated everything."

 

Lyndsey Fifield

The NYT "dropped the ball" on this story and thereby has taken a huge credibility hit over what appears to be partisan hackery. Kudos to  CNN for actually following the evidence and debunking the NYT BS. 

 https://x.com/geraldposner/status/2075406198958862514?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "Journalism 101, the course I teach at Peterson Academy, starts with one non-negotiable: public trust is earned by accuracy and fairness. Falsify a quote to fit your narrative, and you've committed a firing offense at any outlet that still wants to be taken seriously. This week David Gerstman (

@soccerdhg

), writing for CAMERA (

@CAMERA4Truth

), caught the Washington Post doing exactly that. In a July 2 story on U.S.-Israel tension over Iran, reporters John Hudson and Ellen Nakashima quoted Trump saying: "You know it's a little tough. They've wiped out everybody. I don't want them to be killed." Except he never said that. Gerstman went to the transcript and found the Post had spliced together fragments from two separate answers, to two separate questions, at two different moments — and quietly deleted the words in between that undercut their storyline. Trump's actual sentence was "we've wiped out everybody," referring to U.S. and Israeli efforts together. The Post dropped "we've" and swapped in "they've" to make it look like Trump was singling out Israel. The second sentence, on not wanting negotiators killed, came from an entirely different exchange minutes later. That's not editing for space. That's manufacturing a quote to push a narrative. And it happens to be an elemental rule for reporters: never alter what a source actually said to make your story work better. Credit to Gerstman for doing what a real fact-checker does — pulling the primary source and letting the transcript speak for itself. The Post owes its readers a correction and an explanation."