General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGreenwald calls media reaction to Mueller report 'genuinely stunning'
Journalist Glenn Greenwald told Hill.TV's "Rising" on Monday that the news media's response to the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report is "genuinely stunning," accusing the press of continuing to promote the "conspiracy" that President Trump's campaign conspired with Russia in 2016.
I find that genuinely stunning as somebody whos been a pretty harsh media critic for more than a decade," Greenwald, co-founding editor at The Intercept, told hosts Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton. "My bar for their behavior is, I think, rather low, and yet they somehow descended beneath it.
The reality is that for three years there has been a conspiracy theory that has dominated our political and media discourse, which is that Donald Trump conspired with Russia over the 2016 election and that hes an agent of the Russian government along with many of his associates," he continued.
In the Mueller report in one section after the next said either they couldnt establish that or there was no evidence for it, and yet theyre acting as though it said exactly the opposite, that this conspiracy theory was demonstrated and proven and vindicated," he said. "They're living in some bizarre fantasy land because theyre worried that admitting that they got this story wrong will damage their credibility."
Pretending they got it right is just worsening the problem," he added.
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/439989-greenwald-says-media-reaction-to-mueller-report-is-genuinely-stunning
Hey Greenwald, go fuck yourself.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)A strange dude.
pnwmom
(108,991 posts)He uses it to draw progressives in -- but he's a libertarian and a Snowden supporter.