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The mainstream media spent years fixated on alleged collusion between Donald Trump and Russia but have largely downplayed or otherwise ignored the court filing from Special Counsel John Durham as part of his investigation into the origins of the sprawling Russia probe.
“The traditional media is more interested in whisper campaigns and rumors than filings from U.S. attorneys,” former chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz told Fox News Digital.
“If they got it wrong, and they did, then cover the truth with the same vigor,” Chaffetz continued. “It seems some media outlets were so interested in perpetuating a lie they can’t now say they were wrong.”
CLINTON CAMPAIGN LAWYER SUSSMANN ASKS COURT TO ‘STRIKE’ DURHAM’S ‘FACTUAL BACKGROUND’ FROM LATEST FILING
The media has largely downplayed or otherwise ignored the court filing from Special Counsel John Durham as part of his investigation into the origins of the Russia probe.
The Media Research Center found that ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts alone spent a whopping 2,634 minutes covering the investigations into alleged Russia collusion through July 20, 2019. “That’s nearly one-fifth (19.5%) of all of these broadcasts’ Trump coverage, a huge shadow on his presidency,” analyst Rich Noyes wrote.
The heavy-handed coverage from ABC, CBS and NBC was in addition to the dedicated airtime from both CNN and MSNBC, which focused relentlessly on the investigation’s developments. The New York Times and Washington Post even shared the Pulitzer Prize for in 2018 “for deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage” of alleged Russian interference.
A court filing made late Friday by Durham, who was appointed during the Trump administration to investigate the origins of the Russia probe, revealed that a tech firm mined internet data from Trump Tower during the 2016 election and later the White…
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