Thread by @ggreenwald

This is so well-deserved and good for the country.

CNN turned itself into a fanatical political PAC during the Trump era, got a few quick sugar highs, hired an army of US Security State operatives, and ratified one lie after the next with no retractions or accountability:

Just look at this alone:

Everyone who works at CNN knows it spread an outright lie before the 2020 election: the Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation."

Not one ever told their audience it was false or they spread it, let alone apologized for it:

A major reason employees of media corporations basically declared war on me and a few others is we saw the frauds they were spreading in real-time and objected.

Taibbi just proved Hamilton68 was a hoax. They all used it. It was easy to see at the time:

As with the lie about the laptop being "Russian disinformation" - it was so obvious at the time: I quit the Intercept because they spread it and wouldn't let me write about it - *not one* media outlet that used Hamilton68 to shape "news" has acknowledged Taibbi's reporting.

All news outlets and journalists err. I have. All humans do.

But the difference between journalists and completely unethical toxic liars is the latter never admit their frauds.

The reason they don't is worse: they know their audience wants them to lie to advance liberalism.

On a personal level, I don't like seeing people fail. I have friends who work at CNN I like and respect.

But when a "news outlet" constantly gets caught lying and refuses even to acknowledge it, they deserve to collapse and disappear. Good riddance.

The worst part is these toxic, willful liars constantly posture as Owners of Truth. They never stop hectoring everyone about how they are Bulwarks against Disinformation.

The most aggressive, casual and harmful disseminators of Disinformation are the largest media corporations.