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"That's How Real Journalism Works:" Leaked Emails Show How ProPublica Tried to Manufacture a Smear Against Pete HegsethProPublica -- which my friend Kyle Sheidler noted was not a journalistic operation at all, but a well-funded anti-conservative private intelligence service -- claimed that it had merely followed up on a hot tip, then abandoned a story when that hot tip turned out to be false. That "tip" was part of the left's Full Kavanaugh smear operation against Pete Hegseth. ProPublica had written a completely false story, based on a claim from a surely hard-left West Point administrator, that Hegseth had "never applied" to West Point, but somehow just got added to the school by some Cigarette-Smoking Man conspiracy or something. When Hegseth pre-butted the story by posting his acceptance letter from West Point, the editor who was ready to publish this complete fabrication said it was all good because he didn't wind up publishing his defamatory lies. "That's how real journalism works," the editor at ProPublica claimed. Really?
Justin Elliott, a reporter for ProPublica, reached out to Hegseth's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, on Tuesday about the story. Elliot told Parlatore he had an "urgent request" for comment and gave him just one hour to respond, an email obtained by the Caller shows.
A one-hour deadline for comment (in a nothing story that no one else will touch, so there's no time pressure on the "journalist") is not a real opportunity for comment. It's a lie. It's a fake request for comment so that you can say "Pete Hegseth did not respond to questions before the publication of this article." Taylor Lorenz is fond of this "journalistic" technique, except she takes it one small step further and just lies about having ever requested comment. She just doesn't bother asking for comment but "reports," "the subject did not respond to a request for comment." But even if you do technically ask for comment -- people need more than one hour just to get their lawyers on the phone, for crying out loud. Greg Price @greg_price11 | Recent Comments
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