Donald Trump's claim that a "dishonest" media callously reports "outright lies" about him is false because, in reality, the nation's largest news organizations proceed with "great caution" on big stories about the Republican presidential candidate, Washington Post media columnist Erik Wemple says.
Wemple points to a story written by Slate's Franklin Foer which asked whether a Trump server could be "communicating" with Russia.
That article prompted a "debunking" story by The Intercept, titled "Here's the Problem with the Story Connecting Russia to Donald Trump's Email Server."
Wemple then spoke with journalists from organizations that did not touch the Foer bombshell, including The New York Times and The Daily Beast, and found they passed on it because of inconclusive data.
"It certainly looked like a really good story in the beginning, But the more we looked at it, and the more sources we talked to, we just couldn't say what it was," Elisabeth Bumiller, Washington bureau chief for the The Times, told Wemple.
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