Press seen as 'errand boys'
for U.S. security agencies
Many establishment news reporters have been used as "errand boys" by the FBI and the intelligence agencies to make anonymously-sourced allegations against President Trump, according to Michael Goodwin, a New York Post columnist.
Goodwin, formerly of the New York Times, said the same news organizations that promoted the Trump-Russia collusion narrative for three years are now overstating Trump's alleged misconduct in a phone call with the president of Ukraine.
"This is to me, just a continuation of the Russia, Russia, Russia. The same attitude, the same people, the same news organizations," Goodwin told Fox News. Attorney General William Barr "talked about possible prosecutions for the FBI," he said, but added, "I don't think the media should be prosecuted, but they made a lot of mistakes in getting the Russia story wrong. They've overstated a lot of things about the Ukraine phone calls."
Goodwin charged that the same sources within the FBI and CIA are being used for reporting, despite the Russia narratives not proving to be accurate following Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report.
"They're using the media as their errand boys for these attacks on the president, and what I call on is for the media to basically acknowledge that it has made these mistakes, that its stories were wrong, and that it, too. needs to examine its behavior," he continued.
Goodwin, formerly of the New York Times, said the same news organizations that promoted the Trump-Russia collusion narrative for three years are now overstating Trump's alleged misconduct in a phone call with the president of Ukraine.
"This is to me, just a continuation of the Russia, Russia, Russia. The same attitude, the same people, the same news organizations," Goodwin told Fox News. Attorney General William Barr "talked about possible prosecutions for the FBI," he said, but added, "I don't think the media should be prosecuted, but they made a lot of mistakes in getting the Russia story wrong. They've overstated a lot of things about the Ukraine phone calls."
Goodwin charged that the same sources within the FBI and CIA are being used for reporting, despite the Russia narratives not proving to be accurate following Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report.
"They're using the media as their errand boys for these attacks on the president, and what I call on is for the media to basically acknowledge that it has made these mistakes, that its stories were wrong, and that it, too. needs to examine its behavior," he continued.
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