CNN’s Toobin on Statement from Mueller’s Office: ‘This Is a Bad Day for the News Media’

After the Special Counsel issued a rare statement disputing the accuracy of Buzzfeed’s report claiming President Donald Trump told Michael Cohen to lie in front of Congress, CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin called it a “bad day” for the media.

“What the reaction here may be is ‘the press screwed up. They should apologize. The media isn’t as great as it thinks it is.'”

He added: “This is a bad day for the news media. Let’s not kid ourselves. That statement is at least a partial repudiation of an enormously important story.”

Host Anderson Cooper then jumped in, noting: “Also, it’s a very bad day for BuzzFeed regardless of where this story goes. To the credit of other news organizations, everybody didn’t jump on the bandwagon saying this is true.”

Then, a little while later in the same show, Toobin stressed that the statement casting doubt on Buzzfeed’s reporting reinforces negative stereotypes about the media and, in his opinion, the takeaway for many in America may be that the media is “leftist liars.”

“My view is,” Toobin said — speaking once again on the Special Counsel casting doubt on the Buzzfeed’s account — “the larger message that a lot of people are going to take from this story is that the news media are a bunch of leftist liars who are dying to get the president and they’re willing to lie to do it. And I don’t think that’s true.”

He then said again: “This is a bad day for us.”

Buzzfeed is standing by the accuracy of their report.

Watch above, via CNN.

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