Legacy media slammed in Columbia Journalism Review for botched Trump-Russia narrative

Mainstream media's partisan and sloppy handling of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative has irreversibly damaged its credibility with the American public, according to an explosive, four-part report by investigative journalist Jeff Gerth released Monday by the Columbia Journalism Review. 

In part one of the series entitled "The press versus the president," Gerth comes out swinging, naming specific outlets that dropped the ball. 

"'Holy sh*t, Bob Mueller is not going to do it,' is how Dean Baquet, then the executive editor of the New York Times, described the moment his paper's readers realized Mueller was not going to pursue Trump's ouster," Gerth reports.