The story, which included the Steele dossier and the Mueller report among other totemic moments, resulted in Pulitzer Prizes as well as embarrassing retractions and damaged careers,' CJR executive editor Kyle Pope wrote in an editor's note. 'No narrative did more to shape Trump’s relations with the press than Russiagate. How awful was this crapshow when even the Columbia Journalism Review says it was a crapshow?Ĭolumbia Journalism Review offers scathing indictment of New York Times' Russiagate coverage “Bob Woodward, of the Post, told me that news coverage of the Russia inquiry ‘wasn’t handled well’ and that he thought viewers and readers had been ‘cheated.’ He urged newsrooms to ‘walk down the painful road of introspection,'” Gerth wrote. Woodward, one of the reporters famous for breaking the Watergate scandal for the Washington Post, told Gerth that viewers and readers had been “cheated” by the coverage. In a lengthy report for Columbia Journalism Review, Jeff Gerth interviewed media and political figures wrapped up in Russiagate – the sweeping term for the allegations of Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 election – including Donald Trump himself, finding in particular where the media went wrong. Veteran journalist Bob Woodward revealed in a new interview that Washington Post reporters essentially ignored his warnings about the shortcomings of the infamous Christopher Steele dossier, amidst the feverish Russiagate media coverage that dominated the Trump administration. I'd like to hear from some libs here, as now even Bob Woodward is now saying the media coverage of RussiaGate and the Steele Dossier was garbage, and the media 'really needs to examine itself on how they handled it'.

Russiagate dossier definition