The Steel Dossier - A No Brainer

David Rothkopf: The dossier was a collection of rumors. He says BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith made the decision to publish it, and he's absolutely right. No one used any brains when they decided to publish something that wasn't true,. And that they hadn't checked because it was thought to be not only un you know, unverified, but unverifiable. But who could stop at that point? This was a story that was too good to check. It developed a kind of title inertia that really started to float the reputae of a whole bunch of journalists' Reputations were built on air.