TrumPutinGate

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C-south said:
Media shouldn’t go “all in” on anything. They should just report facts. Of course buzzfeed is on the level of the National Enquirer.
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BuzzFeed obviously feels quite confident in their sourcing. I'm intrigued with how this plays out, especially in light of how the special counsel phrased the statement. It was highly wordsmithed, to say the least.
 
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C-south said:
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Read the statement again. Lots of room for BuzzFeed to be generally correct while the special counsel's statement is technically accurate.

Suppose I see an man get hit by a bus at 2:25 PM and I tell the police I saw him get hit by a bus at 2:30. My statement to the police is, in one respect, "not accurate," but most of us would say it's substantively true.
 
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volfanhill said:
So you want media to behave like trump?
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Ok I take it you didn't see the joke.

Buzzfeed is sticking by their reporting and has a FOIA request on what the basis of the statement was. So in essence a way for the information to be refuted or confirmed by the SCO.
 
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evillawyer said:
Read the statement again. Lots of room for BuzzFeed to be generally correct while the special counsel's statement is technically accurate.

Suppose I see an man get hit by a bus at 2:25 PM and I tell the police I saw him get hit by a bus at 2:30. My statement to the police is, in one respect, "not accurate," but most of us would say it's substantively true.
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The SCO statement was calculated to say the least.
 
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Mick said:
The SCO statement was calculated to say the least.
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Sufficiently vague so there remains an interpretation in which it is true, regardless of whether BuzzFeed's story is generally accurate. I think everyone agrees the SC's purpose was not to simply correct a falsehood (they could care less about what the press is saying); rather, they wanted to put the kibosh on any premature action by Congress. Mission accomplished.
 
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evillawyer said:
Sufficiently vague so there remains an interpretation in which it is true, regardless of whether BuzzFeed's story is generally accurate. I think everyone agrees the SC's purpose was not to simply correct a falsehood (they could care less about what the press is saying); rather, they wanted to put the kibosh on any premature action by Congress. Mission accomplished.
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Agree, motive for the statement is most puzzling.
 
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