CNN Smerconish December 6, 2014 23:03:00
"the washington post." eric, from a journalistic standpoint what bothered you in terms of what level of fact checking took place? >> thanks for having me on. the thing that bothered me about the story is something you find in the very best journalism, which is a reproducibility standard. i found nothing -- almost nothing in that story that i could hang on to or someone i could call or a document i could cite or an authority i could say go to and say, is this true. there was nothing, very little in that story i could hang on to and if i chose to, basically confirm the story on my own terms. the...
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