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A Steaming Pile of Bad Journalism

Posted on | September 24, 2018 | 6 Comments

 

The most important fact about the Deborah Ramirez story in the New Yorker is that the same story was rejected by the New York Times, which spent a week chasing the story, interviewing dozens of Brett Kavanaugh’s Yale classmates, but was unable to verify Ramirez’s story. Perhaps more disturbing is that Jane Meyer, who co-wrote the New Yorker story with Ronan Farrow, told CBS that their reporting involved “an email chain of Yale classmates of Kavanaugh” discussing this claim.

Allahpundit is shocked, shocked by the shoddy journalism:

After 35 years of uncertainty, within the span of six days, Ramirez somehow recovered her memories sufficiently to accuse a Supreme Court nominee of having sexually assaulted her. And coincidentally, this memory recovery appeared to happen only after her classmates had begun emailing about Kavanaugh’s time at Yale following his nomination this summer. At some point, by Ronan Farrow’s own admission, Senate Democrats got involved in the process.
Robert VerBruggen raises a very obvious possibility: “These emails would appear to be important evidence regarding how this ball got rolling. They also may bear on the question of whether Ramirez’s memory closely matches the anonymous source’s simply because they’re both the account that was circulating while Ramirez was putting her memories together and contacting her former classmates. Let’s see them.” Yeah, let’s. . . .
I can’t imagine what Ronan Farrow was thinking attaching his name to such a journalistic sh*tpile, lacking not only even one first-hand witness to the incident but saddled with a victim whose memory he has every reason to believe is unreliable. He and Jane Mayer seem fully aware that the story is garbage too, per their careful framing of Ramirez’s accusation. It’s not that it’s true or even probably true, you see, it’s that Democrats are interested in it . . .

Speaking of credible reporting, a source told me today that White House staff are prepared for an all-out fight: “The Boss is not budging” — that is to say, President Trump is backing Judge Kavanaugh 100%.

Guess what? Americans like Republicans more than they like the media:

“Forty-five percent of Americans now have a favorable view of the Republican Party, a nine-point gain from last September’s 36%. It is the party’s most positive image since it registered 47% in January 2011, shortly after taking control of the House in the 2010 midterm elections.”

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)



 

Category: Media Bias, Supreme Court

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