In their coverage of the so-called Russian collusion case, they abandoned principle, journalistic ethics, and in some cases, rationality
Remember Michael Avenatti? He’s the lawyer who unleashed the outrageous allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the Donald Trump nominee for the Supreme Court, claiming Kavanaugh organized and participated in “gang rapes” of Avenatti’s client, Julie Swetnick. The charges were as preposterous as they were savage.
Well, despite the swells and heavy waves from Justin Trudeau’s ever-expanding SNC-Lavalin woes, the news floated north last week that Avenatti had been arrested, in two separate cases, for allegedly trying to extort more than $25 million from Nike Inc., embezzling money from a client and defrauding a bank.
I float all this as preface and prelude, merely to indicate by one specific egregious illustration the far vaster dereliction of huge swathes of the fourth estate over the past two to three years. In their relentlessly ill-headed, turbulently biased, and in some cases straightforward malevolent coverage of Donald Trump in the so-called Russian collusion case, they abandoned principle, journalistic ethics, and in some cases, rationality.
They tormented the functioning of American democracy with a fantasy conspiracy, and many of them worked with the frenzy of fanatics to convince their readers and viewers that their partisan-fired delusion was the truth. The mad Scheherazade of MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, trod paths of polemical projection against Trump that made Keith Olbermann — Maddow’s John the Baptist in the MSNBC fever-shop — resemble a normal human being. A similitude otherwise unavailable to him.
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