Glenn Greenwald on The Intercept. Saw this linked on Drudge this morning.
He's chiding them for making his profession look bad. He senses the most thinking among his own tribe are beginning to distrust American media, that even Russian journalists who've dealt with State journalism their whole lives are fearing that distrust will extend to them. He doesn't like Trump but he doesn't let on to that here. He lists their damaging goofball reports motivated by party loyalty but not enough. He says there are literally too many to list so he limits to highlighting the last week.
Still, his report is excellent. It's a beautiful drubbing to behold.
I must say, I've developed respect for Glenn Greenwald when I saw him debate a U.S. Army General. He's honest. He's concerned for his profession. He knows respect is earned.
While contrary to that, his whole site, The Intercept, by a variety of authors, is all pure horse shit of the same ilk he's complaining about here. Half truths and incredible bias. Through the rest of his website he's propagating the exact same kind of noise, an endless annoying tinnitus. Republicans axiomatically bad, Democrats fundamentally good. Check out his front page. It's nothing but hatred for all things Republican and nothing but anti-Trump propaganda throughout.
And while a portion of comments to his article congratulate him on fine reporting, the rest of the comments are distressing as anything you'll see. They're fine with propaganda. It's what they want. Whatever works to defeat Republicans.
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Greenwald and Attkisson are 2 of the last intellectually honest reporters left. True, honest, journalists..on the endangered species list.
What do credentials in areas other than the hard sciences mean? Used to be reporters - journalist is just a high falutin' term for reporter - had High School diplomas and that was enough. If they delivered the four W's and an H they were doing their job. Many did. Many also delivered lies. Caveat Emptor was advised in perusing their product: the news. Now...now while on their way to a Masters, journalists are instructed that there's a higher truth than the truth and it's their job to deliver that higher truth, the facts be damned. It's not that the lying quotient is that much higher today, it's the insufferable smugness of the liars. After all, they're credentialed.
Hey, if Amartel can use insufferable I can too!
Surber's been making the same noises for quite a while.
And, to a certain degree, he has bragging rights.
Its amazing we needed the Left-wing Intercept to summarize and write clearly as to how the MSM has failed completely.
Weekly Standard, National Review, Hot Air, Red state, etc. - nowhere to be seen.
All of the "true conservative" publications and websites have long gone all in on the "Never Trump" bandwagon. It is impossible to see who they think their audience is in real life.
You know what's amazing? Is that Trump has shown that he is more in tune with conservative principals than so-called conservatives.
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