If credibility is the lifeblood of journalism, the mainstream media is dead.

It wasn't killed by competition from the internet.

It committed suicide.

We know the approximate date of its demise, 2016.

We know the cause, the abandonment of objectivity.

We even know the method of the suicide, the full participation in a conspiracy to destroy

a political candidate and then ultimately his presidency.

This is not only my judgment.

It's the judgment of the most prestigious publication in the field of journalism, the

Columbia Journalism Review.

In January of 2023, the review published a 26,000-word four-part investigation into the conspiracy

commonly known as Rushigate.

It was written by Jeff Gearth, a highly regarded former New York Times reporter with decades

of experience.

Gearth concluded that every major claim in the Rushigate narrative was false.

Let's step back and consider what this means.

For some five years, the mainstream media, the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC,

CBS, NBC, CNN, fed a grotesque lie to the public that Donald Trump colluded with Russia

to subvert an American election.

We are talking about dozens of news organizations and hundreds of reporters working in concert

to spread fictitious claims in thousands upon thousands of news articles, TV segments,

podcasts, and opinion pieces.

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