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Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald
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Last night with @sethmeyers, @mehdirhasan explained how US journalists are so much more subservient and deferential to their political leaders than the British press is, including their creepy life-long use of titles when addressing politicians who haven't held office for years:
In the same @sethmeyers interview, @mehdirhasan explained how the US media's creepy and toxic "deference to power" manifested in a week-long homage to George HW Bush with no dissent allowed, exactly like State TV does. Watch:
As @mehdirhasan & others point out how US media acted like State TV or best friends of the Bush family at a private wake - in the process spouting full-on propaganda and distortions of history - CNN's media analsyst @wjcarter says it was the right thing to edition.cnn.com/2018/12/05/per…
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