This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches by historian Eric Zuesse
Glenn Greenwald still manages to behave like a true journalist, shaming the rest of the media pack, totally involved in imperial disinformation.
These lies by the U.S.-and-allied ’news’-media are not exceptions to the rule; they are the rule whenever anything happens that is contrary to the self-justificatory ‘journalism’, or actually propaganda-line, of the U.S., and of its allied governments.
The lying that got these countries into invading Iraq on 20 March 2003, and into invading Libya in 2011, and into invading and occupying Syria in 2012 until now, are not simply ‘errors’, but are instead systematic and intentional on the part of the news-managements of all of the major U.S.-&-allied ’news’-organizations, none of which will ‘rat’ on any others of them, because they all are in the same boat of liars, and for any one of them to expose the ‘journalistic’ fraudulence of any other of them would be to expose also themselves, because they’re all in the same racket: destroying democracy — making democracy in their own country an impossibility.
Why are there not consumer boycotts against each one of them? Could it be because they all are very successful in hiding from their respective publics their own criminality, their PR-gangland fascist operation?
Glenn Greenwald’s report was titled “The Inspector General’s Report on 2016 FBI Spying Reveals a Scandal of Historic Magnitude: Not Only for the FBI but Also the U.S. Media”.
Zero Hedge’s report was titled “New WikiLeaks Bombshell: 20 Inspectors Dissent From Syria Chemical Attack Narrative”.
Things like this don’t routinely happen in a democracy. They do happen routinely in the U.S.-&-allied countries.
Incidentally, Greenwald previously did a blockbuster news-report that’s closely related to the one he did on December 14th, and it was titled "The 10 Worst, Most Embarrassing U.S. Media Failures on the Trump-Russia Story”. So: he has made this beat a particular specialty of his.
Anyone who subscribes to a major ‘news’-medium in the U.S.-and-allied countries is paying to be deceived.
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ERIC ZUESSE, Senior Contributing Editor • 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. Besides TGP, his reports and historical analyses are published on many leading current events and political sites, including The Saker, Huffpost, Oped News, and others.
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What is Eric’s motivation in pumping Gleen Greenwald? I don’t know. Here’s what I do know. Glenn has done marvelous work. But he works for the enemy and I don’t agree with him about how Snowden’s files should have been handled. In that, he sides with nazi-enabler Pierre Omidyar. Pando writers Paul Carr and Mark Ames had a back and forth with Greenwald about his working with Omidyar and, I have to say, I thought that they were right and Glenn was, is, wrong. (Pando has been sold and looks quite scary now.) Otherwise, Glenn is a hardworking and smart… Read more »