Now that the Russian hoax story has seen the light of day Trump accusers are changing the subject or trying Orwellian doubletalk to downplay their role in the farce. Major media is also running for cover. But it’s too late. They’ve been exposed as cheap propagandists and consistent liars.

Look at what an amoral sociopath Adam Schiff is. He spent years promoting the Steele Dossier. He read it into the Congressional Record. He lied about the "smoking gun" evidence he saw (that Mueller never found). Watch how he worms his way around to avoid even an iota of mea culpa https://t.co/3C1V6dYhnc

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 9, 2021

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FNC: “The infamous Christopher Steele dossier’s low credibility took another blow last week, but news organizations and pundits who routinely used it to push the narrative that Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia don’t appear in a rush to correct the record or give back awards anytime soon.

Last week, Special Counsel John Durham, who was appointed by the Trump administration to investigate the origins of the Russia investigation, charged Steele sub-source Igor Danchenko with making false statements to the FBI. The indictment shed light on Danchenko’s ties to Democrats, casting doubt on the validity of the media’s past coverage of the dossier, which CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post and so many others spent years salivating over.”

“If these outlets had credibility to lose it would cause their credibility to go down, but because they have none it just cements they are not to be paid attention to in any way, shape, or form,” Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway told press.

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Cornell Law School media critic William A. Jacobson commented, “We are fast approaching the point where news organizations and journalists who received awards for Russia collusion reporting are going to have to consider voluntarily surrendering those prizes. Since that is highly unlikely to happen, groups like Pulitzer will need to consider rescinding the awards to salvage their own reputations,” Jacobson told media.

DePauw University professor Jeffrey McCall said the legitimate media should get credit for “taking on the establishment media and critiquing what is now known to be ineffective reporting” on the Steele dossier. “This was a challenging story to cover, to be sure, but too many media outlets failed to provide sufficient verification and context to the dossier story… it needed more thorough vetting than it got, and the ramifications of the flimsy reporting were significant…In retrospect, it appears some media outlets were too eager to buy concocted narratives that fit the story they wanted to report, rather than deliberately sort out verifiable details. News consumers should now rightly question the motives of those media outlets that ran with poorly sourced stories,” McCall added.