Anonymous sources used frequently during the Trump administration were “deeply problematic,” Fox News contributor Ben Domenech said on Tuesday in “Outnumbered”, reacting to the Washington Post’s massive correction to a January story about a phone call between then President Donald Trump and Georgia election investigator Frances Watson.
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BEN DOMENECH: We have to understand, you know, how deeply problematic it has been in recent years to see how much anonymous sourcing has become something that was ubiquitous in all media attacks on President Trump, including situations where anonymous sources would then be used to make backup from other anonymous sources and presented as confirmation. Now that we know what really happened in this situation, does it look even worse than everything you’ve been through in the sense that how do we know this? We know this because the request for open records led to the discovery of a recording made by the office in question; discovered in a trash folder on a computer.
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In other words, they tried to exclude him and were unable to get away with it. Without that, we wouldn’t even know that. At this point, one of the things that was mentioned in the Democrats’ presentation during the president’s impeachment was totally fraudulent, that he didn’t say what these anonymous sources claimed he said. And, for me, this is something that will continue to be a problem in the media going forward. It is not just tied to President Trump. The use of anonymous sources and considered to be of such importance is a really worrying phenomenon. And we need to be skeptical to a much greater degree going forward. “
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