Former CBS Journalist Demands
Apology for Trump
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Former CBS journalist and investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson is demanding
that the mainstream media and the FBI apologize to President Trump and all of
the other people who were affected by the investigation.
According to The Daily Wire:
In an op-ed for The Hill this week, Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist
and former CBS reporter who went "rogue" Sharyl Attkisson, called out he
r fellow media members for their reckless and partisan reporting on the
"Trump-Russia collusion" acusations. She also called on members of the
intelligence community to apologize to all the people and entities they've
damaged by letting themselves be politically "weaponized."
...
"We in the media allowed unproven charges and false accusations to
dominate the news landscape for more than two years, in a way that was
wildly unbalanced and disproportionate to the evidence," she stresses.
"We did a poor job of tracking down leaks of false information. We failed
to reasonably weigh the motives of anonymous sources and those claiming
to have secret, special evidence of Trump’s 'treason.'"
The result was a stunning amount of false information, as Attkisson documents
in a piece listing over 70 major reporting errors related to Trump accusations.
Even when media outlets made mistakes, she adds, they often doubled down
by citing technicalities and quickly returning to larger, unfounded accusations
against Trump.
"So, a round of apologies seem in order," she states, first and foremost:
"Apologies to Trump on behalf of those in the U.S. intelligence community,
including the Department of Justice and the FBI, which allowed the
weaponization of sensitive, intrusive intelligence tools against innocent citizens
such as Carter Page, an adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign."
Attkisson did note that judging by the media's past actions in handling
their wrongdoings and admission and an apology seem unlikely.
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