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In response to "i don't think that's the standard of newsworthiness. what did they know about their VP candidate before they chose him over all the other ones? -- nm" by mr mooch

I have very mixed feelings about this, but I think the key is this statement:

Posted by pmb (aka pmb) Sep 24 '24, 13:30

The files are “basically an [opposition] dump, and not a very good oppo dump at that,” said a journalist who has seen the material. “There’s not a single allegation that you couldn’t find with one click [on the internet]. It’s not good work. Honestly, it’s just not very interesting.”

I generally think that publishing stolen information is not something that should be encouraged (and maybe some lessons were learned from 2016), though I know if Fox got similar info on the Dems they would publish in a second. But if it is going to be published it should really be something critically important. This sounds like it's just the same old stuff we've heard before.

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old enough to remember a credulous press corps taking Bob Barr at his word that the Mueller Report fully exonerated Trump before the actual report -- (edited) - mr mooch Sep 24, 13:47 5
- I mean, they reported it and then they reported what the report said when it dropped. That doesn't seem inappropriate. - pmb Sep 24, 14:08 3
  - It was pure enablement of the post-truth world. Abdication of their job. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 24, 15:20 2
    - It was already established. I mean, you report it, you point out when Trump says he was exonerated that the report didn't say that. - pmb Sep 24, 16:18
    - It was criminal. -- nm - mud Sep 24, 15:22
- I remember an incredulous press corps. I guess I followed better folk. -- nm - mud Sep 24, 13:51

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