CNN has standards?
Via BPR:
Jake Tapper called out his CNN colleague Brian Stelter, who recommended the Michael Wolff book “Fire and Fury” because Trump haters say the book “rings true overall” despite its numerous factual errors.
Tapper chided Stelter on Twitter for his loose journalistic standards, writing: “Having many errors but ‘ringing true’ is not a journalistic standard.”
After fellow liberals slammed Tapper for criticizing his leftist colleague, Tapper backpedaled.
“That said, quotes are quotes,” he tweeted. “And if facts can be ascertained by further reporting as true, that’s also a service.”[…]
Liberal pundits like Brian Stelter have been eager to excuse the book’s blatant errors because it mocks President Trump.
“This book paints a consistent portrait, that many other reporters have been painting for months, about the president’s incompetence and instability,” Stelter said on CNN this weekend.