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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

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Post by threatofrain »

uniqueid wrote: post #24
kame3d wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you say that?

Because every Greenwald story is the same story: 'THE SKY IS FALLING! THE ELITES ARE LYING! THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ARE IN BED WITH THE ELITES! ONLY I GLENN GREENWALD AM TRUSTWORTHY! BUT THEY ARE TRYING TO DEPLATFORM ME! SHARE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT! BWARARARAHWHHWGAG!" Meanwhile what's his deal? He accuses The Intercept of skullduggery because they dared edit him. Substack is most likely secret…

In this article, we also have Greenwald recalling the Hunter Biden laptop story with The Intercept and Fox News and Tucker Carlson.

That story ended up to be a shit-show, with Fox News essentially killing the story by dropping it off the table.

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

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Post by harry8 »

cf21 wrote: post #29

Glenn Greenwald is correct, the initial tweet by Patrick Tucker was false as the ODNI report does not explicitly mention Hunter Biden's laptop. However, Glenn Greenwald also massively mischaracterizes how the "liberal corporate media bubble" handled the situation. > As this false claim went massively viral, conservative journalists — and only they — began vocally objecting that the report made no mention whatsoever o…

This is the classic way to attack Glenn. Ascribe to him views he did not advance. "The caller is fantastic" then attack those.

Glenn is ok. What he describes is a real problem.

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

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Post by cf21 »

harry8 wrote: post #32
cf21 wrote: post #29

Glenn Greenwald is correct, the initial tweet by Patrick Tucker was false as the ODNI report does not explicitly mention Hunter Biden's laptop. However, Glenn Greenwald also massively mischaracterizes how the "liberal corporate media bubble" handled the situation. > As this false claim went massively viral, conservative journalists — and only they — began vocally objecting that the report made no mention whatsoever o…

This is the classic way to attack Glenn. Ascribe to him views he did not advance. "The caller is fantastic" then attack those. Glenn is ok. What he describes is a real problem.

As I said, I agree with his premise.

I still consider it disingenuous to hide Daily Caller journalists behind the label "conservative".

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

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Post by walrus01 »

Can you imagine being a professional journalist, and making the fully rational decision that the hunter biden laptop story was the hill you wished to die upon, resigning in a huff from your employer of many years?

Greenwald has lost a great deal of credibility.

And now he's still harping on about it as if this supposed laptop is earth-shatteringly important news?

Mostly I feel sorry for Greenwald and how clearly unhinged he has become.

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Post by refurb »

walrus01 wrote: post #34

Can you imagine being a professional journalist, and making the fully rational decision that the hunter biden laptop story was the hill you wished to die upon, resigning in a huff from your employer of many years? Greenwald has lost a great deal of credibility. And now he's still harping on about it as if this supposed laptop is earth-shatteringly important news? Mostly I feel sorry for Greenwald and how clearly unhi…

It sounds like you don’t understand why he left. The agreement at The Intercept was that reporters had editorial control. That worked fine until Glenn decided to write about the Hunter laptop. Suddenly that rule went out the door. Suddenly the article had to be revised or else.

I mean, if you employer promised to do something important and then reneged, isn’t leaving a pretty reasonable thing to do?

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Post by walrus01 »

refurb wrote: post #35
walrus01 wrote: post #34

Can you imagine being a professional journalist, and making the fully rational decision that the hunter biden laptop story was the hill you wished to die upon, resigning in a huff from your employer of many years? Greenwald has lost a great deal of credibility. And now he's still harping on about it as if this supposed laptop is earth-shatteringly important news? Mostly I feel sorry for Greenwald and how clearly unhi…

It sounds like you don’t understand why he left. The agreement at The Intercept was that reporters had editorial control. That worked fine until Glenn decided to write about the Hunter laptop. Suddenly that rule went out the door. Suddenly the article had to be revised or else. I mean, if you employer promised to do something important and then reneged, isn’t leaving a pretty reasonable thing to do?

I'm aware of his agreement. My personal opinion is also that the whole "laptop story" is such a fantastic mess of fabrications, bullshit, suspicious Giuliani-linked political hacks, the guy's repair shop that is the supposed origin of the laptop, lack of evidence chain of custody, lack of proper forensic examination, that there's a reason the editors decided to put their feet down at a firm red line of not publishing absolute dreck.

Of course at that juncture, Greenwald was free to disagree with that and depart.

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

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Post by refurb »

threatofrain wrote: post #27
hindsightbias wrote: post #13

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

Hunter Biden's laptop is an incredibly awful story. Fox reporters claimed to have obtained the hard drive, then lost it due to conspiracy from the delivery company, then found it, and now refuses to show the contents because Hunter Biden is a down and out man, and it's so sad to kick a remorseful man trying to turn his life around. This is the story according to Fox, and specifically Tucker Carlson — that we cannot s…

I’m sorry? Specific content of the laptop was released, the Biden team was asked if it was authentic and the answer was “no comment”. Why would they do that if it was fake news?

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Post by masonic »

walrus01 wrote: post #34

Can you imagine being a professional journalist, and making the fully rational decision that the hunter biden laptop story was the hill you wished to die upon, resigning in a huff from your employer of many years? Greenwald has lost a great deal of credibility. And now he's still harping on about it as if this supposed laptop is earth-shatteringly important news? Mostly I feel sorry for Greenwald and how clearly unhi…

  supposed laptop
And you say Greenwald has lost credibility?

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

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Post by walrus01 »

masonic wrote: post #39
walrus01 wrote: post #34

Can you imagine being a professional journalist, and making the fully rational decision that the hunter biden laptop story was the hill you wished to die upon, resigning in a huff from your employer of many years? Greenwald has lost a great deal of credibility. And now he's still harping on about it as if this supposed laptop is earth-shatteringly important news? Mostly I feel sorry for Greenwald and how clearly unhi…

supposed laptop And you say Greenwald has lost credibility?

Yes. The better question is, how many years ago, exactly, did Giuliani lose the last shreds of credibility he had remaining? He's the supposed origin of it, right? He claims he received it from some sole-proprietorship independent Mac repair shop, which has now conveniently vanished?
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