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Greenwald: Yesterday Journalists Spread a Significant Lie All over Twitter

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Re: Greenwald: Yesterday Journalists Spread a Significant Lie All over Twitter

#11
post #5

question is why now? what is their motive?

The motive of MSM journalists today is to conform to the DNC/leftist narrative to avoid being fired and disowned by their colleagues. Source: 2020 Greenwald interview.

If you watch interviews with former US leftists who became centrists and spoke out about burning downtowns, deplatforming, etc. they all had to find new careers.

Re: Greenwald: Yesterday Journalists Spread a Significant Lie All over Twitter

#12
If we are critical of Trump's lies, and expect media to fact-check Trump's statements, I suppose that we should likewise morally expect media to fact check CIA statements (with a track record of false statements), as opposed to the behavior that Greenwald is criticizing here, i.e. spreading and exaggerating their statements.

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#15
post #4

I don’t see a way out of this, I suppose we should all just get used to living in reality tunnels and learn to get along with people with opposite beliefs.

That'll never happen most likely. I live in San Francisco, you can get screamed at and assaulted for "getting along" with people.

Or even being the wrong race

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#16
post #5

question is why now? what is their motive?

The motive of MSM journalists today is to conform to the DNC/leftist narrative to avoid being fired and disowned by their colleagues. Source: 2020 Greenwald interview. If you watch interviews with former US leftists who became centrists and spoke out about burning downtowns, deplatforming, etc. they all had to find new careers.

Isn't it the goal of all corporate MSM to appease their advertisers?

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#17
post #7

Careful, Greenwald has gone a bit off the rails recently.

>Careful, Greenwald has gone a bit off the rails recently.

In its present form this is just poisoning the well. Surely you can discuss your issues with the article or, at the very least, substantiate your claim.

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#18

The premise is it was Hunter Biden’s laptop. There is no evidence of this. It’s completely impossible there could be a disinformation campaign on such a pedestrian political campaign. /s

What gets me about this is that it's always a "laptop" being discussed. Shouldn't we be discussing a hard drive? Or is the incriminating evidence on the keyboard?!

Re: Greenwald: Yesterday Journalists Spread a Significant Lie All over Twitter

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post #8
post #6

It seems it’s a very corrupt institution and probably always has been. For a while there they made people believe them to be the “fourth estate” the defenders of the democratic faith, etc. Sadly, it seems it was all a rouse and a bullshit narrative. They are not defending the constitution in any way. All they care about is whatever happens to be their particular agenda at a particular point in time which may coincide…

Gonna disagree there. I’ve worked with journalists (am not one) and it’s not BS as you seem to suggest.

I've also worked with "journalists" (can you call yourself that when the show is named after you?). They are not well adjusted individuals, so I guess they aren't technically lying once they've sufficiently deluded themselves.
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