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When The New York Times Helped Trump
By Putting The Brakes On The Russian Hacking Story
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When The New York Times Helped Trump
By Putting The Brakes On The Russian Hacking Story
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January 17, 2017 11:41 AM EST
ERIC BOEHLERT
Media Matters
https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/01/17/when-new-york-times-
helped-trump-putting-brakes-russian-hacking-story/215027
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/zwej2gz
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Talk about strange bedfellows joining forces to produce an unlikely media
alliance.
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Thats what happened when The New York Times reported on October 31, 2016,
that FBI officials had not been able to uncover any evidence that Russian
operatives, through allegedly hacking Democratic emails, were trying to
help elect Donald Trump.
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Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia, read the
October 31 Times headline which relied on unnamed law enforcement
officials.
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Acting as an almost unofficial time-out, and one that came with the Times
seal of approval, the article helped put the media brakes on the unfolding
Russian hacking story; the same Russian hacking story that has now morphed
into a full-scale Trump scandal.
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The message on October 31 from the Times sources was unmistakable: Theres
no conclusive connection between Trump and the Russians, and the Russians
efforts were aimed at disrupting the presidential election rather than
electing Mr. Trump. (Question: How do you not pick sides in a two-person
election if you only undermine one of the candidates, the way Russian
hackers only undermined the Democrat?)
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The Times piece set off audible cheers within the conservative media,
which usually holds the Times in contempt for its supposed liberal media
bias.
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In fact, pointing to the newspapers alleged Democratic leanings,
conservative claimed that if even the liberal New York Times determined
there was no Trump-Russia story, then it definitely must be true.
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And as far as liberals are concerned, the Democrats are concerned, when
the New York Times clears you, you are cleared, Rush Limbaugh told his
listeners on November 1. The New York Times carries as much weight as the
FBI, and if the New York Times says theres nothing to see between Trump
and Russia and Putin, then theres nothing to see.
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All across the conservative media landscape, the Times report was held up
as putting the Trump-Russia story to bed.
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However, to suggest the Times influential October 31 report hasnt aged
well, as MSNBCs Chris Hayes recently put it, may be an understatement, as
the unfolding hacking scandal continues to gain momentum and more evidence
tumbles out regarding claims that Russians were trying to help Trump.
(Hayes also correctly recalled that "At the same time the FBI was leaking
like a sieve about Clinton, people around it went out of their way to
dampen the Putin talk.")
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The problems with the Times article are many. First off, Sen. Harry Reids
spokesman claimed that Reid had been interviewed for the Times article,
pushed back against its timid premise about there being no connection, and
that Reids comments were omitted from the story.
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More recently, weve seen all kinds of information revealed that
contradicts the Times often-quoted October 31 report. For instance, FBI
Director James Comey testified in December that Russia had hacked into
Republican state political campaigns and old email domains of the
Republican National Committee, but did not release information from those
hacks. As Reuters pointed out, that allegation may buttress the U.S.
intelligence view that Moscow tried to help Trump against Democrat Hillary
Clinton in the 2016 campaign.
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More recently, the BBC reported that a joint taskforce, which includes the
CIA and the FBI, has been investigating allegations that the Russians may
have sent money to Mr Trump's organisation or his election campaign. Also
last week, the Guardian reported that FBI investigators were so concerned
with a possible Trump-Russia connection that they asked for a foreign
intelligence surveillance (Fisa) warrant to monitor Trump aides during the
campaign. (The warrant request was reportedly denied.)
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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