UK media own up for painting Trump as the J6 villain, but the US media enjoy promotions and Pulitzers for their relentless Trump hoaxes.
While media across the pond take some responsibility for painting Trump as the villain of Jan. 6, the legacy media in the United States — instead of facing reprimands or firings for their relentless propagation of Trump hoaxes — enjoy promotions and Pulitzers.
On Sunday the director-general of the BBC resigned after the British network published doctored footage of President Donald Trump speaking to supporters on Jan. 6.
In a statement published by the BBC, Tim Davie said he was taking “ultimate responsibility” for the “mistakes” made in a documentary that spliced together separate clips of Trump speaking to the crowd on Jan. 6 to imply that Trump told his supporters to storm the Capitol. The network cut out the part of the speech where Trump said his supporters should “peacefully and patriotically make” their “voices heard.”
The BBC is at least pretending to take responsibility for its deception. But here in America, spreading hoaxes about Trump isn’t career-ending. If anything, it’s a career booster. But if the BBC can take steps toward accountability, U.S. media should too for a host of hoaxes they peddled.Russia Collusion Hoax
Declassified documents show that after the 2016 election then-President Barack Obama and his high-ranking members of the intelligence community included the now-debunked Steele dossier in their 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that attempted to link Trump and his campaign to Russia. The dossier was opposition research funded by the Clinton campaign. Despite warnings from intelligence experts that the dossier was flawed, the dossier was nonetheless included in the ICA and served as the basis for furthering the Russia collusion hoax, as The Federalist reported.
Despite the absence of evidence throughout the entire hoax, the Pravda press spent years peddling left-wing lies about Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia.
Three reporters who wrote a story in late 2016 regurgitating the CIA conclusion that “Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency” even won Pulitzer Prizes for their coverage.
Former fact-checker Glenn Kessler — who voluntarily left the Post this past year — also eagerly propagated the hoax.
