Image of Vladimir Putin in The Nation (photo: Jussi Nukari/ Lehtikuva via Reuters)
The Nation’s James Carden (7/5/16) quotes FAIR’s list of rapidly published headlines linking Russian government hackers, Donald Trump and the US Democratic Party in the wake of a report by the Washington Post‘s Ellen Nakashima (6/14/16):
The dogged media critic Adam Johnson of FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) compiled a list of headlines that appeared in major media outlets within 24 hours of Nakashima’s scoop:
• Russian Government Hackers Broke Into DNC Servers, Stole Trump Oppo (Politico, 6/14/16)
• Russia Hacked DNC Network, Accessed Trump Research (MSNBC, 6/14/16)
• Russians Steal Research on Trump in Hack of US Democratic Party (Reuters, 6/14/16)
• Russian Government-Affiliated Hackers Breach DNC, Take Research on Donald Trump (Fox, 6/14/16)
• Russia Hacks Democratic National Committee, Trump Info Compromised (USA Today, 6/14/16)
• Russian government hackers steal DNC files on Donald Trump (The Guardian, 6/14/16)
• Russians Hacked DNC Computers to Steal Opposition Research on Trump (Talking Points Memo, 6/14/16)
• Russian Spies Hacked Into the DNC’s Donald Trump Files (Slate, 6/14/16)
• What Russia’s DNC Hack Tells Us About Hillary Clinton’s Private Email Server (Forbes, 6/15/16)”
