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Political Journalists Have Themselves to Blame for Sinking Credibility

By David Harsanyi
Friday, December 15 2017

"Our record as journalists in covering this Trump story and the Russian story is pretty good," legendary reporter Carl Bernstein recently claimed. Pretty good? If there's a major news story over the past 70 years that the American media has botched more often because of bias and wishful thinking, I'd love to hear about it. Four big scoops recently run by major news organizations — written by top reporters and, presumably, churned through layers of scrupulous editing — turned out to be completely wrong. Reuters, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and others reported that special…

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