5 Reasons BuzzFeed’s Story Should Never Have Been Accepted by the Mainstream Media

1. Again after much prevaricating, Leopold produced the phone bill and it showed just one call - less than a minute long and it occurred five days after he submitted the first draft of the story.
2. The story stated very authoritatively that Rove himself had told President Bush and Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, as well as a few other high level administration officials, that he was going to be charged.
3. Of course anyone can make a mistake and maybe Leopold was misled by his multiple sources but in another story it looks like Leopold was involved in fraud and forgery of documents bolstering a story.
4. In 2006 Leopold ran a detailed story stating that Karl Rove had been informed he was about to be indicted for leaking the name of CIA agent Valarie Plame.
5. In a 2002 story for Salon about energy company Enron, Leopold quoted a damning email which the subject of the story denied ever writing.
6. They are five red flags about Jason Leopold, one of the journalists behind the story, that meant they should not run a story on the report without independent verification.

https://townhall.com/columnists/phelimmcaleer/2019/01/18/5-reasons-buzzfeeds-story-should-never-have-been-accepted-by-the-mainstream-media-n2539304