F. Andrew Wolf, Jr.: The Media Must Admit Their Complicity in Russiagate

In a way, the most appalling thing about all this is that the media gave itself Pulitzer Prizes for its propagandistic misrepresentation of Russiagate...and they haven't relinquished them. This makes it all less like a mistake and more like conscious, intentional propaganda--the media is basically saying: We endorse what we did.

   And don't forget: the left widely accepts an epistemology according to which this is exactly the kind of thing it ought to do: the real goal of the media--like the real goal of science, scholarship, teaching, and everything else is to advance leftist politics. According to this Marxist and postmodern (yes, those views are at odds with each other) epistemology, [a] dispassionate, objective, apolitical inquiry is wrong and [b] it is impossible.

   I haven't read the primary sources yet, so I'm not convinced that they provide the kind of evidence Gabbard and others are alleging. I'm perfectly willing to accept e.g. Andrew McCarthy's view that there's nothing new in there--and that's the way it initially seemed to me. But regardless how that comes out, it's clear that the media violated its most profound obligations in its coverage.