Legal Fears Push Newsweek to Delete Eichenwald’s Articles Used to Smear Sputnik News
21st Century Wire says…
Failing US magazine Newsweek once again finds itself on the ropes.
For the last year, US mainstream media outlets have had near free run on spraying any slanderous accusation regarding all things Russian, and about Russian-based media outlets in particular. One of the primary motivations for this festival of defamation is of course political.Early on in the general election the ‘Russian conspiracy’ theory was promulgated by the White House and the Clinton campaign and the mainstream media in order to damage Trump’s credibility. After Clinton’s epic loss, legions of Democratic Party affiliated journalists and Hillary Clinton supporters in the media are still angry and upset about their election loss and do not accept Donald Trump as their President. As a result, many journalist are still using their positions in media to act out in public, and mostly with the full backing of their like-minded editors and media executives.
While most of the endless scapegoating and lies about Russia and Trump continue as annoying background noise, some of the US liberal establishment’s fake news and libelous claims, like stories made-up by CNN – are beginning to be challenged in the courts – which is causing a panic in many mainstream editorial news desks across America.
This latest challenge to Newsweek and its shamed staff writer Kurt Eichenwald follows on the current ‘blow-back’ trend line…
RT International reports…
“We’ll continue explaining to various newsweeks that lying is bad,” Simonyan told Sputnik.
Her comments come after Newsweek was forced to take down two erroneous articles by journalist Kurt Eichenwald, claiming that US President Donald Trump had conspired with Russia, as well as smearing former Sputnik editor William Moran.
On Friday, Moran said that a settlement had been reached, but did not provide any further details, saying that the deal was confidential between the two sides.
In October, Moran mistakenly attributed an article by Eichenwald to Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal and, realizing his mistake, deleted the article 20 minutes later.
However, while the piece was online, Eichenwald saw it and imagined collusion between the Trump campaign, Sputnik, and Wikileaks.
At the time, numerous media outlets (some usually quite critical of Russia) spoke out against Eichenwald. The Washington Post said that Eichenwald “is at best misleading,” while BuzzFeed proved that Trump and Moran quoted the same erroneous tweet, which was widespread online.
Moran then contacted Eichenwald, attempting to clarify the situation and expecting Eichenwald to retract the story.
That, however, did not happen. Instead, Eichenwald asked him to stay silent in exchange for a job as political reporter with The New Republic, and warned him about the potential consequences if the young journalist refused.
Moran turned down the offer and went public with his version of events.
Moran has left the field of journalism and is currently pursuing a law degree, Sputnik news agency said.
“Newsweek is an established brand of 80 years and yet it is not even in Sputnik’s league in terms of global web traffic and performance,” Patrick Henningsen, geopolitical analyst and executive editor at 21stCenturyWire.com, said. News outlets like RT and Sputnik are winning in the ratings battle with many US and UK English language media platforms, he said, and explained why this is happening.
“It is simply because the Russia-based English language outlets are filling a demand for real international news and edgy opinion. They are simply feeding a massive audience out there which has been intentionally neglected for decades by Western establishment media conglomerates who have always enjoyed a monopoly on the global English language market. A network like RT, and a website like Sputnik, are only filling a demand which was always there.”
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