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Glenn Greenwald
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This "victory lap" language is such bullshit. It's called holding powerful media factions accountable for their falsehoods. If Mueller had found a vast Trump/Russia conspiracy & arrested Trump Jr & Kushner as predicted, they'd be crowing about it for years & demanding apologies:
When major media outlets spent 18 months spreading false conspiracies after 9/11 about Saddam, self-criticism and reform were vital. Some did it and some didn't. But it had nothing to do with "victory laps." News outlets demand accountability from others & provide none themselves
US journalism in 4 acts: @JeffreyGoldberg edition #VictoryLap
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Glenn Greenwald
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I have a hard time believing the people of Ohio, India, Pennsylvania & Wisconsin who voted for Trump did so so he would change the leaders of Venezuela - especially since he said he was against such campaigns. If they wanted that, they had Rubio & Jeb, then Hilary, on the ballot.
Trump voters should feel pretty betrayed having listed to a candidate for two years rail against neocon orthodoxy, only to end up empowering the most extremist neocons and giving them free rein to pursue the darkest parts of their imperial agenda (same with "Draining the Swamp").
Yes, I meant Indiana, not India. Thank you people of Twitter for your kind and generous method of correcting my phone typing error.
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Glenn Greenwald
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We've read the Mueller report. We know what it says. It obliterates the conspiracy theories. And Mueller said Barr's letter *wasn't misleading*, just that media coverage overread it. But this is the 3-year-history of this story: one-day media hysteria on Twitter that goes nowhere
For 3 years in this story, there are always key lines in these new BLOCKBUSTER! articles that negate the 12-hour Twitter meltdown that evaporates into nothing. This is that sentence here. We've read the Mueller Report and know what it says about collusion, and that this is true:
A reminder of what's in the actual Mueller Report: theintercept.com/2019/04/18/rob…
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Glenn Greenwald
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Nothing will destroy journalism's reputation faster than creating new rules to conceal newsworthy info in the public interest. It's the literal antithesis of journalism. And nobody - nobody - believes they will apply these new rules if an anti-Trump country hacks dirt on Trump:
Both the dirt on Manafort and the Steele Dossier came from foreign officials trying to interfere in the election - the case of the former, from the Ukrainian government working with a DNC agent. Why are there no conscience examinations over that? politico.com/story/2017/01/…
There's only one viable, ethical role for journalists: if you have information in the public interest that you authenticate & which does not endanger innocent people, you publish it regardless of the source or their motives - period. Here's @DavidBarstow:
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