Project Veritas published a hot-mic speech given by Amy Robach complaining that they new about it three years ago and that ABC canned the story, apparently, because (on top of other things) prince Andrew was part of the ring and the the Royal Family won’t give them any interviews if they aired it. The fact that it was in the middle of the election and that Bill Clinton was implicated in it was certainly a factor.
It’s astonishing that a story about a pedophile ring by a rich person was canned. How many more minor were raped because of this? Video
It’s awful, but it’s not new. The wealthy and powerful (speaking generally) aren’t interested in fighting sexual assault, rape, and abuse of women and girls (and boys, in some cases), and in fact are often directly opposed to this fight, because so many of the wealthy and powerful enjoy their relative freedom to sexually assault, rape, and abuse women and girls. This is true across the spectrum of society and in all industries and segments, as far as I can tell. Only recently have a few chunks of society started to publicly recognize this and do something about it. But the progress has been very small compared to what actually needs to be done. We still have abusers in the highest offices and positions in the country (including, quite clearly, the White House and SCOTUS).
IOW, ABC News felt they couldn’t release the story because they didn’t want another “Dan Rather/GW Bush AWOL” debacle. Now, you might not believe this explanation. I can’t say I blame you. But I don’t trust Project VeriTrash farther than I can drop-kick a bowling ball.
Project Veritas is an organization with a record of dishonesty and dishonor, but I don’t trust any wealthy and powerful organization (like ABC News, or Disney) any more than them, when it comes to stories that could harm the wealthy and powerful like Epstein and his pals. Even if Robach’s explanation is accurate, it’s a tragedy and a travesty that big news mostly ignored stories like Epstein (and Cosby, Weinstein, and Trump, for that matter) for years and years.
Besides what **iiandyiiii **points out, IMHO a lot of the media, even from the right, knew about bigger dirty deeds of trump, but as usual, the ton of bad deeds could not be confirmed by two sources as the standard goes and it is even more so when the powerful are confronted.
We should remember the almost complete ‘no endorsement’ for Trump from large newspapers in the last election. They could not tell us directly about those deeds; they could only describe the reasons why, and in particular to right wing readers, in roundabout opinion articles, that Trump was going to be bad news for anyone that supported or decided to join his administration.
Sorry, it’s just covering their asses. It was a pedophile ring, and Epstein’s activities were not that secret. THey chose to can it because of fear or money, not journalisim.
They had lots more verification than with many stories. They ran the Covington kid a million times from a simple 20-second clip or Kavannaugh from unproven (or disproven) testimony. If instead of Clinton it’d been Trump or Pence in the plane/apartment/island, they would’ve run it, 100000% sure.
As for the item at hand, Dude! Project Veritas is more likely to have found what was discussed earlier in newsrooms across the USA and misleads others by omitting context or are even fabricating news by editing that context, as they have done so before.
So I take it your interest is in bashing the libs (your political opponents), not actually fighting abuse of women, then? That’s the only reason I can think of to dismiss one set of credible allegations while latching into another.
So I take it your interest is in bashing the conservatives (your political opponents), not actually fighting abuse of children, then? That’s the only reason I can think of to dismiss one set of credible allegations while latching into another. You went for Trump and Kavannaugh on the first reply, so glass houses and all of that.
If you’re a journalist who stops the airing of a story of powerful men running a pedophile ring because of the money, you should either stop being a journalist
or accept that money is you main motivation.
I didn’t say it was an accetable reason, just her posible excuse.
Did I say it was a pedophile ring with tens of victims? Because the ammount of deflecting is astonishing. This wasn’t an ilegal póker game, it’s a heious crime, and they covered it.