(11 Jan 2017) Incoming White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer railed against online news organization BuzzFeed just before President-elect Donald Trump’s news conference Wednesday.
BuzzFeed News published a summary report about supposed damaging information about Trump collected by Russia.
It published despite its editor noting that there is reason to doubt the truth of them.
Most news organizations, including The Associated Press, held back on the specific allegations because they had not been substantiated. “Even Donald Trump deserves journalistic fairness,” tweeted David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones.
Yet the news spread so quickly that by Tuesday night, one specific, salacious allegation was a top trending topic on Twitter.
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