If you believed the lies about the FBI investigation, you owe it to yourself to find better sources
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/5/1545264/-If-you-believed-the-lies-about-the-FBI-investigation-you-owe-it-to-yourself-to-find-better-sources
It's not just the RW (and LW radicals) who ginned this
faux scandal up, it is also largely due to "churnalism" and that churnalism continues with coverage today.
First, I want to say to everyone who actually believed there was something to the e-mail scandal: Im sorry that you were lied to. I dont want this post to be a victory lap or an I told you so post, because the issue were dealing with is serious, and deserves serious thought.
What this whole story reveals is that we have a problem with churnalism. The reporters, writers, and journalists who bring us news are so understaffed that they dont actually have time to fact check their own reporting. What most reporters do right now is just re-word whatever press release theyve been handed. If you were someone who believed the oft-repeated lies told about the facts in this case, Im sorry. But recognize that we dont have effective news companies anymore, even in the new media space. In new media, people are often just re-wording what someone else previously re-worded. Theres no actual reporting.
And as citizen journalists, the lot of you are actually capable of picking up a phone and calling someone whos the subject of a story, or an expert. Just tell them youre a blogger, and e-mail them the resulting post. Ive done that. I think the rest of you should consider doing it, too.
I wrote months ago that the only possible charges to bring against Clinton would be civil, and internal to the state department, requiring a sit down meeting with the president whose job it would have been to decide whether any sanction was necessary.