Share this page!

Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
Twitter logo
20 Nov, 3 tweets, 2 min read
Watching the same media people who spent 4 years claiming the Kremlin had infiltrated and taken over the US now sanctimoniously mock conspiracy theories is exactly like watching Gavin "Dinner Party" Newsome and Nancy "Salon" Pelosi lecture & scorn people for COVID violations.
Just like the Democratic Party refused any real self-critique after their defeat in 2016, the US media loves to complain that people don't trust them and turn instead to Fake News, but *never* ask whether their own behavior is a cause for why that is happening.
It's easy and fun to mock other people's conspiracy theories - a bit harder to confront the ones we ourselves spent years spreading, causing a further erosion of trust in people's ability to believe they're hearing truth from news organizations.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @ggreenwald

Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
21 Nov
Very important exchange with @ninaturner on her great new podcast, in which @TulsiGabbard explains why it's so imperative for Trump to pardon Edward @Snowden & Julian Assange before January, and why the worst national security goons are so against it.

A Trump pardon of Snowden & Assange would be historic on so many levels. It would cause civil liberties groups, press freedom groups & leaders from around the world to praise him. He'd be the first President willing to confront the Deep State since Eisenhower's Farewell Address.
People across the spectrum - right, left and in between - would cheer .The only people furious are those whose abusive powers they revealed: @JohnBrennan, James Clapper, @Comey, @AmbassadorRice & @GenMhayden.

And Biden/Harris would be forced to denounce it, isolating them.
Read 7 tweets
Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
21 Nov
LOL. The notion that you can’t point out NBC’s long-standing role in spouting CIA propaganda without “endangering” their employees is manipulative bullshit.

They hired *John Brennan*, Ken Dilanian & every other operative puked up by the security state. People already know.
If you don’t want to be a news outlet globally notorious for disseminating propaganda in partnership with CIA, don’t hire the ex-Director of CIA to “deliver the news,” or people like this who are notorious for serving the Agency.

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/57703…
The CIA lies of the Iraq War were principally sold on Meet the Press. Ground Zero for mindless CIA stenography of the most unhinged Russiagate conspiracies was MSNBC.

If you don’t want to be known as a CIA outpost, then .... don’t be one.
Read 4 tweets
Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
21 Nov
Throughout the Trump era, mainstream liberal media outlets elevated the most deranged, neurotic and ridiculous people as “experts” to scare the shit out of everyone. Well beyond NYT putting *Louise Mensch* on its op-ed page about Russia, look at what this person is *still* doing: ImageImage
This @sarahkendzior person was so blatantly a completely unhinged maniac, scaring the crap out of followers, telling them Trump was definitely going to nuke people, maybe even them. MSNBC put her on constantly. Look at the fear & sickness she spread: ImageImageImageImage
And look at what media outlets even *now* are saying about her. Just look at these two tweets. Why the fuck would anyone in their right mind trust the media, saying stuff like this and elevating people like her? Trump permanently broke the brains of liberal America. ImageImage
Read 4 tweets
Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
20 Nov
This point from Jonah @peretti, now the owner of BuzzFeed & HuffPost — that the NYT can’t be the “Paper of Record” because its subscription model means it only speaks to one like-minded group — is 100% true. But.... Image
But it doesn’t have to be that way: millions & millions wants a media outlet they can trust: unconstrained by ideology. The mammoth success of Rogan, among others, proves that.

Huge opportunity to break free of the NBC/CNN/NYT/Fox prison & create that:

vox.com/recode/2020/11…
Relatedly: there’s suddenly a huge spate of articles about The Substack Craze in media outlets & I’m seeing an oft-repeated myth: that while a journalist can make more money there, your audience size shrinks. That assumption is false....

wired.com/story/plaintex… Image
Read 5 tweets
Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
20 Nov
As @mattgaetz there was joined by @TulsiGabbard & @RoKhanna in a failed July effort to allow troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, you can see Liz Cheney in front of him. After accusing him of being pro-Terrorist, she joined with Dem Chair Adam Smith to smash them. Here's Smith: Image
If you're angry it was Matt Gaetz who made eloquent pleas with Ro & Tulsi to end the war in Afghanistan, while the Raytheon-funded House Armed Services Committee Dem Chair joined with Liz Cheney & other neocons to block withdrawal, blame them, not me:

theintercept.com/2020/07/02/hou…
Read 5 tweets
Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
19 Nov
The New Ruling Coalition: Opposition to Afghanistan Withdrawal Shows Its Key Factions

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-new-ruli…
An unholy union of the National Security State and the neocon-backed and corporate-funded Democratic Party are about to assume power: with media-supported internet censorship a key weapon.
Here we see the new coalition of power that has formed during the Trump era: hawkish and corporatist Democrats, united when necessary with pro-war/neocon Republicans, Bush/Cheney operatives, the national security state and large corporate media outlets.

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-new-ruli…
Read 6 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get email notifications when new thread is out from this Author!

Check out other threads from this Author!

Read all threads by @ggreenwald