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Is newsnation a legitimate outlet? Being a non-American I'd never heard of this, and when the reporter starts with "Earning your trust every night!" I wonder if these guys are just tabloid reporters?

I find this a fascinating topic, but for every piece of news that seems legitimate there's 10 that feel like nonsense. (It is "fun" to read this kind of stuff though)




American here. I’ve never heard of it, and I read the news all day. It is very well written if it’s fake, but I mean I could hypothetically do that too…

If it’s even a real article, “whistleblower” is a busted term in the US right now. Rather than referring to some Erin Brokovitch, it currently means “an interest group has become aware of an allegation!”

I mean. Anyone can make an allegation. It doesn’t cost money unless you are doing fraud or defamation someone cares about. Dangerous examples have manifested as a tit-for-tat thing in congress, lately.

But. No one’s going to believe criminal intent or sue me for saying that President David Blaine, Esq, was observed disappearing at the White House Easter Egg Hunt. So I can kinda just say it.

If I said it on a platform watched by conspiracy theorists, with intent, it might be different, but almost certainly not.


I subsequently found out that NewsNation is the new home of Chris Cuomo, who was ousted by CNN a few years ago after some misconduct involving his brother, who was the governor of New York.

Now, I’m not going to assign it a credibility score yet, but Cuomo was a reasonably serious journalist.

Interesting that this media project hadn’t really crossed my radar.

Note: that doesn’t make aliens real, even though I wish so too.


Thanks for the response. I suppose I'll wait until the New York times or something runs his 'story' then.


Um, it's a video, not an article, hahaha! :)



Yes! That is an article. The post link is a video. Ha ha ha! :)


Possibly silly to nit-pick, but there were both. Maybe I had to click somewhere, but I certainly both watched and read the NewsNation piece.


Yes, that's what I'm saying. My post was a video! But there's also an article, ha ha ha! :) There's lots of content about this story now. And the Guardian and Fox have now picked it up. Which is good I guess. Apparently there will be much more testimony from Grusch dropping on the "Need to Know" podcast soon.


> ha ha ha! :)

I'm still not convinced you're not a bot considering how 90% of your posts contain this string


Ha ha ha! :) I wonder what perturbed you in what I said that you got to pretend that! Ha ha ha! :)


Ha ha ha, well it's covering this story, so that's good! Is that a problem for you? This is a video interview with David Grusch, the guy who is the subject of the Debrief story^0. Is that going to change what he says for you? Mainstream media's failed by not covering this story so far^1 Ha ha ha! :) It's bigger than Snowden! :)

0: https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-re...

1: https://youtu.be/rQjbFZT9_EM?t=1370


If i've literally never heard of the website, news outlet, whistleblower, reporters, or any of the other entities involved in an article... Then yes, it is worth asking for alternative sources or an insight into the legitimacy of the outlet. I don't really know why you'd be so obtuse about that?


Ha ha ha! :) Am I? Or are you being obtuse by not being aware of it?

These allegations are too hot to be covered by the mainstream media! Ha ha ha! :)


Just out of curiosity, do you hold all of the other claims made by those featured on ancient aliens to be credible, or just specific researchers? If the later, what criteria have you used to distinguish between that which you do and do not believe?


Well you sound like you're doubting your own process. So that's good! First step. You also sound like you have trouble seeing things through other people's eyes, that's also good! Where you should go next! Mind expansion without drugs. You're welcome! Ha ha ha! :)


It's a half headline news meets "CNN" spun from the remains of WGN.

They're centrist, if not marginally apolitical, roughly approximating Walter Cronkite.




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