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@erik2690 @oddstorms @emptywheel In the world of journalism, anonymous sources are a two-edged sword: their anonymity may get you great information, but you are also entirely dependent on the source being straight with you and giving you good and accurate info to use. ...
@erik2690 @oddstorms @emptywheel ... And so there are those occasions when you will discover that a source is feeding you disinformation and is simply using you for spreading it. Lying to you. Under those circumstances, you not only are no longer under any obligation to maintain their anonymity, you have ...
@erik2690 @oddstorms @emptywheel ... a legal obligation to fully expose them to any law-enforcement agencies who may have been involved with the disinformation. That’s exactly what Marcy did.

Glenn has never been a working journalist in a newsroom in any sense, and it shows.
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@ScottAdamsSays @JoannaPrentice1 1) Authoritarian personalities believe that the entire world is divided into sides -- "my side" (i.e, the people devoted to their leader and/or ideology) and "the other side" -- and that the information/media available to the public is similarly divided.

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@ScottAdamsSays @JoannaPrentice1 2) Whole, healthy personalities understand that the world is a complex place, and the media ecosystem reflects that. There are both media entities and individual journalists who can be considered more reliable over time because their work is more accurate.
@ScottAdamsSays @JoannaPrentice1 3) Similarly, there are people and entities that are unreliable and prove to be so over time. Making things even more complex is that even reliable sources can either make mistakes or succumb to ideological inclinations to bias their work and make it unreliable.
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1) A thread about Sarah Palin, who in many ways was the key figure in the transformation of the Republican Party into the know-nothing, anti-science, conspiracy-theory-loving, cultishly authoritarian Party of Trump it is today. W/ video.
2) I've been thinking a lot about Palin in no small part because of the way Trump-hating Republicans like @MeghanMcCain are rewriting history by trying to blame Barack Obama for Trump, because apparently _he_, not the GOP, stoked America's culture wars when he was president.
3) Let's be clear: the GOP has been stoking these culture wars as a means of winning election since at least the days of Ronald Reagan and his presidency. But they embraced it openly beginning in 1992 with Pat Buchanan's "cultural war" speech.

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We documented lots of examples of Trump winking and nodding at the white nationalist far right in 2016, but this is just a straight-up open embrace. Malkin is now the “Mother Groyper,” promoting open white supremacy, and this account belongs to a neo-Nazi.
This was our investigation in 2016, by the way.

motherjones.com/politics/2016/…
And here’s info about her, ah, ascent as the Mother of Groypers.

dailykos.com/stories/2019/1…
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