Quote (IceMage @ 17 Feb 2020 18:31)
I try to remain open-minded about media criticism, and this Avenatti thing even has people like Sam Stein admitting he was wrong, but it makes zero sense to me.
Now he's a convicted criminal... and everybody is pretending the mainstream media should've instinctively known that?
cnn (among many other media outlets; they’re not the only culpable news group) started putting a glorified ambulance chaser front and center as a ‘serious’ means to “take down” the President, with little-to-zero vetting of said individual, Avenatti.
Avenatti ended up being ‘known’ for his two main clients during this time: someone who tried to profit off of claiming to be a homewrecker and violated an NDA requiring her only to buzz off and go away for money (Stormy), and someone who claimed to have attended multiple “gang-rape” parties, yet kept attending them over the course of many months without reporting said accused crimes, supposedly hosted by underaged teenagers when she was an adult (Swetnick)
most people would at the least raise a skeptical eyebrow but the media was too busy trying to “get drumpf” and avenatti’s tall tales were all too useful at the time