columbia journalism review that sort of heard this because newspapers had mass layoffs at the time and in two thousand and seven they had a piece called the long view of layoffs and that they predicted this idea that journalists needed to think more like those bloggers but in not in this not in a business sense what they actually said was quote they can why they were successful if this is in two thousand and seven said they can also stay with stories longer and quote non elite sources often ignored by their institutional counterpart. i think we journalists actual real journalism yes so here we are a decade you know a decade later the establishment corporate media goes after journalists who aren't backed by a massive conglomerate and they consider anybody who's not in that group conspiracy theorist or fake news but at the same time you're not really helping yourself and at the end of the day there's a. because digital journalists are losing nine percent of their jobs too so obviously it's more than just an the thing that we all are you got to remember and always get the good was that pe

his problems were so bad, even the columbia journalism review recognized and respected once accused weal bolt of being one of the targets of his reporting sounded off earlier today to my colleagueod. >> jason leopold wrote a story for buzzfeed sin i've been indicted by a grand jury. he re-created a tearful moments in moment in the oval office said that i told members of the white house staff that i was going to soon be indicted and all heck broke loose. it was simply not true, there was not an element of truth int it. >> here is a guy i trust in media and he's here to break it down for us. media reporter and columnist, joe, click bait is what i'm calling it. this is a huge blow or is it a huge blow? >> i don't see how they get up from the ten count off them not because not only now do you hav a special counsel who has never weighed in on any news reports up until now refuting this story , but even i thought about going down this road that given the source that buzz feed appeared to use here, i walked away from the story. then even the new york times said that their sources tell them that

i saw the crash, i was a columbia journalism review writer. i saw a lot of people that were freelancers and newspaper reporters who could no longer pay for their lives. and could no longer do their work. one woman was in the position, she quit before she was laid off but she was going to be laid off. she tried to get another job and it was like i will going to pr. which is something a lot of former journalists do. and she said look, you know she is black, she is chubby,. she says i am chubby, black, in my 50s . not a 28-year-old that was laid off in journalism and then goes off and you know, cells pharmaceuticals and becomes a pharma girl. this is not what her life would be. and it really hit me hard. she's probably getting a lot of bias with her resume and things like that. both for the mother heard, gender and race. she applied to 200 jobs and she couldn't get one. that was a very striking story to me. in terms of how racial it can be.>> sarah, tell us a little about, you make specific references in your book at certain points where it is a

now, in 2006, this so-called reporter, well the columbia journalism review all but pretty much calledim a liar. the review wrote that he would get stories completely wrong. we knew that today. and, quote: even make up stuff with stories that had no sources at all. well, it looks like he has done it again. all in a blatant effort to destroy president trump. it's sad. but, what is even really worse, even fake news cnn and conspiracy tv, msnbc, they go with the story but they are constantly -- they put in the caveat over and over again. this is what we heard all day long. unverified. but if it's true, with a level of hysteria and excitement, and then, of course, how many times have they mentioned impeachment? look at exactly what i mean. >> >> a story which has not been confirmed by nbc news. >> we should note cnn has not independently confirmed buzzfeed's reporting nor, for that matter has anyone else. >> an explosive new report that, if true,. >> if it's true. >> if true. >> if you believe the reporting. >> if this is confirmed. >> if all of this is true. >> if true. >> if true. >> we