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NBC & MSNBC: “Humiliatingly Wrong”

” NBC NEWS AND MSNBC SPECIALIZE in repeating and disseminating what U.S intelligence officials tell them to say and then calling that servitude “reporting.” Those two networks really are the all-but-official outlets for CIA messaging. And this status has led their brightest on-air stars to broadcast a series of extremely consequential stories that turned out to be humiliatingly wrong.

This stenographic and highly jingoistic practice of mindlessly reciting the whispered claims of anonymous “intelligence officials” is what notoriously led the New York Times and other leading U.S. media outlets to deceive the country into believing Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz’s fairy tales about Iraqi WMDs and Jeffrey Goldberg’s tales about Saddam’s alliance with Al Qaeda.

But while many of those outlets apologized for that behavior and vowed to avoid it in the future, NBC and MSNBC have committed themselves to it with greater vigor than ever, as evidenced by the increasing prominence of their national security reporter Ken Dilanian, whose entire career has been defined by repeating what the CIA tells him to say – and has thus been plagued by one embarrassing false story after the next. ” –  The Intercept

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Least Trusted Journalists

#1Ken Dilanian
#2Ben Smith
#3Kaitlin Collins
#4Chris Cuomo
#5Jon Talton
#6Ben Kesslen
#7Jason Leopold
#8Annie Linskey
#9Ronan Farrow
#10Anthony Cormier
#11Adam Edelman
#12Mike Ward
#13Gardiner Harris
#14Dean Baquet
#15David Corn
#16Bob Woodward
#17John Dickerson
#18Aaron Blake
#19Charles Blow
#20Jim Sciutto
#21Jake Tapper
#22Brian Ross
#23Mike Seidel
#24Alisyn Camerota
#25Gabriel Pogrund
#26Chuck Todd
#27Greg Gordon
#28Joe Scarborough
#29Carl Bernstein

Least Trusted Outlets

#1CNN
#2NBC News
#3New York Daily News
#4Fox News
#5BuzzFeed
#6NPR
#7The Daily Telegraph
#8Daily Star
#9The Washington Post
#10The New Yorker
#11Bloomberg
#12Politico
#13CBS
#14Facebook
#15Mother Jones
#16CNBC
#17The Guardian
#18Houston Cronicle
#19The Seattle Times
#20The Huffington Post
#21AP
#22ABC
#23Newsweek
#24Big League Politics
#25The Weather Channel
#26Time
#27The Daily Beast
#28WhatsApp
#29MSNBC
#30McClatchy