We Were Right on Russia-gate; Now Help
Us Keep Our Work Going
For more than two years, led by our founding editor, Bob
Parry, Consortium News consistently challenged the Russia-
gate “collusion” story, which has now been officially
dismissed. Please support us to keep our record of unique
journalism going as we launch our annual Spring Fundraising
Drive today.
Aaron Maté, one of the leading, independent journalists who
debunked the Russia-gate collusion “scandal” tweeted last
week:
The late, legendary Robert Parry’s
contribution at @Consortiumnews has gone seriously under-appreciated. He &
Greenwald both pushed back right from the start. I joined in many months
later, inspired by both of them. https://t.co/zC9pbi6qq7
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) March 27, 2019
Indeed, Parry blazed the trail of Russia-gate skepticism on
this trail-blazing website he founded in 1995, very likely
the first independent news website in history. Following his
long experience as an investigative reporter at the
Associated Press and Newsweek magazine, Bob simply applied
professional journalistic standards and ethics to every
story he ever covered. The Russia-gate saga was no
different. Some people call it “evidence-based” journalism,
or even “scientific” journalism. Bob would have called it
just journalism.
Being devoid of ideology or partisan bias, Bob covered the
Russia-gate story by demanding evidence, and when none was
found he said so. When the corporate media became unmoored
in reporting this story, Bob also said so, pointing out how
the media had abandoned the bedrock principles of
journalism, which begins with skepticism. He set the story
in its geo-political and domestic contexts, pointing out how
dangerous the wild speculation masquerading as fact was to a
world still at risk of nuclear conflict between Russia and
the United States.
Depends on what your definition of ‘from the start’ is. Parry was one of the
very few tracking the larger propaganda campaign of anti Russian hysteria
since Ukraine in 2014. Most people only jumped on after the 2016 election,
after the overall narrative had been building for 2yrs
— Robbie Martin (@FluorescentGrey) March 27, 2019
As he had been in skeptically reporting the WMD fiasco that
led to the disastrous invasion of Iraq, Bob was attacked,
this time for being a Kremlin stooge, a Putin puppet, and a
Trump supporter, simply for keeping his head and doing his
job. Bob was soon joined by other writers at Consortium
News in making this website a leading publication in factual
reporting about the burgeoning “scandal.” Some publications
or online video sites had one or two skeptical writers or
presenters.
But Bob made Consortium News a welcoming place for a host of
experienced writers who took apart various aspects of the
collusion conspiracy theory, including Ray McGovern, Gareth
Porter, Daniel Lazare, Patrick Lawrence and Joe Lauria.
Consortium News is also the exclusive home of the Veterans
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, who published a
series of groundbreaking memos challenging the Russia-gate
story.
Consortium News pays its writers for their excellent work
and is exclusively reader-supported. We depend on our
audience to keep us going, so that when the dominant
corporate media next tries to lead millions of Americans and
people around the world astray, we’ll be there to set the
record straight.
Please make your tax-deductible
donation to our Spring Fund Drive
today!
Thank you.
