One of the advantages of living with my parents temporarily after retirement is access to cable news programs. My sister Lisa introduced me to Rachel Maddow’s radio program when I was in Madison, Wisconsin, many years ago, and I was really impressed. She has become a master of political analysis in the years since. There was a nice exchange between her and Richard Engel last night, as she told of how much she had learned from him.
The following is a summary of last night’s The Rachel Maddow Show from the show’s website, and a link to the episode:
Rachel Maddow explains how an ostensible top secret NSA document submitted through the show’s inbox is likely a fake, and points out the perils of such forgeries to news organizations trying to report out important stories like the Trump Russia story.
Maddow to news orgs: beware of forged Trump Russia documents!: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-to-news-orgs-heads-up-for-hoaxes-985491523709
In the episode she clearly explains in great detail how this sinister situation was intentionally created. I hope you will listen to it very carefully. It easy to see how even a seasoned reporter could have been pulled into this trap. She even draws parallels to a similar situation that effectively silenced Dan Rather’s true story about George Bush’s military service. Richard Engel actually said something on air about how he was glad she had avoided this “land mine”.
This is of course consistent with the Trump/Republican administration’s ludicrous, but extremely dangerous attacks on the press in so many ways. Because a free press is the greatest threat to the administration. Which has made me aware that I need to be supporting such excellent reporting. So I have subscribed to some news sources that I had previously been reading for free on the Internet.
We have to do all we can to protect freedom of the press and reporters. Push back against “fake news”.
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