DUBLIN — The Wall Street Journal has published a scathing op-ed by Sean Davis, a co-founder of the conservative online news magazine The Federalist, which attacks certain mainstream media outlets for a litany of errors in the reporting of the relationship between US president Donald Trump and Russia. You can read the full details below, which includes numerous examples of the errors in reporting. Davis attributes the errors to partisanship. Interestingly, however, the WSJ's editorial board has chosen not to take equal aim at the many conservative news outlets that have published a huge volume of partisan fake news, such as the allegation that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, the allegation that Hilary Clinton was involved in a ring of paedophiles operating from a pizza joint in DC, the claim that the parents of the young children killed in the Sandy Hook mass shooting terror attack were paid actors, and a host of other, similar stories. Nor, for that matter, does it discuss a similar partisan storm in a teacup around Hilary Clinton's use of a non-government email server to send correspondence during her tenure as Secretary of State, or the many accusations around her role in events in Benghazi, Libya, which were the subject of extensive Congressional investigations that exonerated her – both of which stories the WSJ itself spilled plenty of ink over. In other words, while the WSJ is surely right to draw attention to the issue of partisanship shaping news reporting, it seems oddly blind to the extent to which partisanship shapes the news it puts out itself and the news put out by outlets that share its own partisan leanings. – Felicity Duncan

A catastrophic media failure

By Sean Davis

(The Wall Street Journal) – Robert Mueller's investigation is over, but questions still abound. Not about collusion, Russian interference or obstruction of justice, but about the leading lights of journalism who managed to get the story so wrong, and for so long.

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