'Now, a moment of reckoning is upon us. Axios published a piece over the weekend calling the dossier “the media’s epic fail.” Bill Grueskin, a Columbia Journalism School colleague who has written frequently for CJR, wrote an op-ed in the Times asking “How did so much of the media get the Steele dossier so wrong?”
It seems reasonable to ask whether, knowing what we know now, the dossier should have been published at all. I think the answer, in hindsight, has to be no.
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