The New York Times Makes Excuses For Its Steele Dossier Lies

Almost an apology...that barely gets going before the excuse-making and indictment of "the endemic and willful deceptions of the right-wing press" take center stage. After all, it is impermissible to criticize the left in any way without loudly proclaiming that the right is worse. In fact, those right-wing sins are so multitudinous that Grueskin has to dig all the way down to OAN to find an actual example.

   The MSM's torrent of lies were apparently excusable--or, anyway, Grueskin spends a lot of words excusing them. But Fox News...[checks notes] "downplayed" the COVID-19 threat...

   Downplayed!!

   The monsters!

   Does it matter, one wonders, that the MSM has spent two years up-playing COVID? 

   Anyway: dude goes from "endemic and willful lies" to "downplayed" in about a line and a half. "Downplaying" something doesn't sound all that much like "endemic and willful lies" to me. But, then, I'm not a trained journalist... 

   And to even mention the "echo chamber" "built" by the "right-wing press" in such a piece shows how far gone the progressive press is. They've built a massive, multifaceted, astonishingly effective echo chamber...and they've just been caught actually engaging in actually endemic and willful deception... And all they can muster is FOX NEWS DOWNPLAYED A THING!!!!!...

   The right-wing echo chamber is a puny and scrofulous effort compared to the progressive version. It's absurd to even mention them side by side. Especially when the subject is supposed to be the bigger, crazier, much, more worser left-wing version.

   But this is the closest thing we've gotten to an acknowledgement of wrongdoing from them...seems to me like there's some downplaying going on...but, again, I'm not journalist...