RE: They also put total faith in the Steel dossier

Posted on: January 22, 2019 at 10:29:59 CT

In January 2017, BuzzFeed released what became known as the "Steele dossier", an uncorroborated private intelligence report that alleges several salacious accusations of Trump. Margaret Sullivan at The Washington Post wrote of the release, "It's a bad idea, and always has been, to publish unverified smears". [107] David Graham at The Atlantic called it "an abdication of the basic responsibility of journalism".[108] NBC's Chuck Todd called the release of the document "fake news".[109] Ben Smith defended the decision to release the document from accusations that it did it out of partisanship arguing that the dossier is of "obvious central public importance."[110]