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#7776711 at 2020-01-11 00:08:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9953: As The Get Approaches Edition
Washington Post Exposes McClatchy Newspapers
Wrong on Russia hoax while spearheading smears of Devin Nunes
Washington Post series about media treatment of the Steele dossier finds that McClatchy newspapers, owners of the Sacramento Bee and Fresno Bee, were major players in dissemination of the Russia hoax involving the 2016 election.
As Julie Kelly explains at American Greatness, Post media critic Eric Wemple "takes McClatchy to task for coverage of an alleged meeting between Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and Kremlin stooges in Prague during the summer of 2016. The trip, cited in the dossier, has been denied by Cohen and refuted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the Justice Department's inspector general."
McClatchy refused to retract that coverage, and in December 2018 published "Cell signal puts Cohen outside Prague around time of purported Russian meeting," by Peter Stone and Greg Gordon. McClatchy editors told Wemple they had cited "evidence, not proof," that Cohen may have made a secret trip to Prague, but Cohen was not their only target.
When California Republican Devin Nunes began to expose the roots of the Russian hoax, McClatchy papers spearheaded a smear campaign against him, as California Globe reported.
On May 23, 2018, McKenzie Mays authored, "A yacht, cocaine, prostitutes: Winery partly owned by Nunes sued after fundraiser event." On an August 2015 cruise, the article charges, men were "fondling and suckling" sex workers breasts and men "lined the prostitutes up on the deck of the yacht, reviewed out loud and in detail the sexual services performed."
Nunes' ties to Alpha Omega made national headlines, Mays explained, "because it was discovered the winery sold wine to Russian clients in 2013. The discovery came amid Nunes' ongoing involvement in a federal investigation of Russian meddling into the presidential election."
On August 23, 2018, Rory Appleton authored "Devin Nunes: Farmer? Leader? Traitor? A community struggles to define its congressman," citing Democrat calls for an ethics investigation of Nunes. In similar style, last December 5 the Fresno Bee editorial board charged, "Devin Nunes' blind allegiance to Trump is the real danger to the republic."
As Kelly notes, Nunes is "suing McClatchy for defamation for aiding a Fusion-sourced smear campaign" against him. As it happens, McClatchy is not the only target of the Washington Post's media critic.
"Wemple aims his harshest remarks at MSNBC host Rachel Maddow," Kelly explains. She cites Wemple that Maddow "pumped air" into the dossier, giving the impression that it was "a serious piece of investigative research, not the flimflam, quick-twitch game of telephone" of the Horowitz IG report.
Wemple also takes CNN to task for hiring Andrew McCabe but leaves out the Washington Post's own role in the hoax. Still, Julie Kelly finds the series "a compelling if incomplete account of some of the worst purveyors of dossier boosterism."
Meanwhile, as Josh Saul reports in Bloomberg News, "The McClatchy Co., the newspaper publisher that's teetering near bankruptcy, skipped a payment to some of its pensioners." According to Saul's January 2 report, "the company faces a mandatory $124 million contribution to its pension plan in 2020."
https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/washington-post-exposes-mcclatchy-newspapers/#comment-7788
#577437 at 2018-03-07 14:16:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #711: Open 24 Hours Edition
Resignations / Firings
NEWSWEEK
Newsweek's owners announced a "series of strategic structural changes" to the media company on Tuesday, amid turmoil at the magazine that has included a law enforcement raid and wide-ranging resignations and firings.
…after the magazine's editor-in-chief, executive news director and several senior writers were fired for investigating its parent company following a raid by the Manhattan district attorney.
…Editor-in-chief Bob Roe, executive news director Ken Li and senior reporters Josh Saul and Celeste Katz were all fired on Feb. 5. Veteran Newsweek journalist Matt Cooper also resigned, along with several other writers, in February, as reports emerged of a punishing workplace culture and intense traffic demands on writers.
In late January, Newsweek Media Group co-owner and CEO Etienne Uzac and his wife, Marion Kim, both resigned. Kim served as head of finance for the media group.
http:// thehill.com/homenews/media/377046-newsweek-announces-strategic-structural-changes-amid-turmoil
#279570 at 2018-02-06 00:35:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #341: Bakers in Short Supply Edition
Newsweek on Monday fired all of its top staff amid turmoil that has upended the newsroom.
In a company meeting, several editors announced that the outlet had fired Editor in Chief Bob Roe, Executive Editor Ken Li and reporters Celeste Katz, Josh Saul, and International Business Times editor Josh Keefe.. . Etienne Uzac, the owner of Newsweek's parent company, and Marion Kim, the company's finance director, stepped down last week. The company also announced last week that Chief Content Officer Dayan Candappa was put on leave following harassment allegations.
www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek-guts-its-top-edit-staff-amid-legal-turmoil/
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