On June 27th, Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept, headlined "Latest Example of Media Recklessness on the Russia Threat”, and he documented gross misrepresentations, including many outright fabrications, in the ‘news’ reporting regarding the alleged ‘Russian’ ‘hacking’ of ‘the vote’ and other alleged manipulations, of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, by the Russian government; and these media-lies and other fabrications constituted the ‘news’ as supposed facts instead of fabrications, on CNN, MSNBC, Slate, C-Span, Fortune, Washington Post, New York Times, and Britain’s Guardian, just to cite the examples that Greenwald described — big-name media, including ‘reporting’ by Pulitzer-prize journalists. Greenwald concluded that, “blatantly inane anti-Trump conspiracists and Russia conspiracies now command such a large audience because there is a voracious appetite among anti-Trump internet and cable news viewers for stories, no matter how false.” And, he said: “A related, and perhaps more significant, dynamic is that journalistic standards are often dispensed with when it comes to exaggerating the threat posed by countries deemed to be the official enemy du jour. That is a journalistic principle that has repeatedly asserted itself, with Iraq being the most memorable but by no means only example.” To him, this massive false ‘news’ reporting is innocent, and the motivation for it comes from the audience, not from the journalistic organizations that are doing it. However, strong evidence exists that it’s not innocent, at all — that it is systematic, and includes all of America’s major ‘news’media. But understanding what motivates it, requires digging far deeper than Greenwald did.
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They're Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST'S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity. Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
On June 27th, Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept, headlined “Latest Example of Media Recklessness on the Russia Threat”, and he documented gross misrepresentations, including many outright fabrications, in the ‘news’ reporting regarding the alleged ‘Russian’ ‘hacking’ of ‘the vote’ and other alleged manipulations, of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, by the Russian government; and these media-lies and other fabrications constituted the ‘news’ as supposed facts instead of fabrications, on CNN, MSNBC, Slate, C-Span, Fortune, Washington Post, New York Times, and Britain’s Guardian, just to cite the examples that Greenwald described — big-name media, including ‘reporting’ by Pulitzer-prize journalists.
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Do I have to reread this long article?!
Did it say WHY Greenwald is not getting things right?
Yes — because then he’d lose his job, But I left that for intelligent readers to figure out from the evidence that I cited. A good nonfiction writer can only present the facts, not intelligence to a reader who lacks it. If I had instead presented the conclusion to a reader who can’t follow a logical and well-documented argument for that conclusion, then the reader wouldn’t even have any reason for accepting that conclusion. Therefore, all that a writer can control is the documentation and argument, not the reader’s conclusions (or lack of same) from the documentation and argument. Sorry… Read more »
cettel, regarding documentation, 2 weeks ago the Catholic Archdioces of New York handed out at all Sunday masses in the state a 4 page whitewash of the pedophile priest scandal. This document is so full of blatant lies and omissions that I made 4 copies and plan to send them out to journalists who have written about these crimes against children that went on for decades and were covered up by the church hierarchy. I am not cyber-saavy, and can’t scan and attach to an e-mail. If you have a P.O. box, please e-mail me the address as I think… Read more »