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16 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Journalists, Learning They Spread a CIA Fraud About Russia, Instantly Embrace a New One

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The most significant Trump-era alliance is between corporate outlets and security state agencies, whose evidence-free claims they unquestioningly disseminate.

Yesterday, even after learning they spread a CIA fraud about Russia bounties, they instantly returned to the same tactic
Over and over, you find "journalists" with the NYT/CNN/MSNBC axis mindlessly repeating whatever the CIA or other government agencies tell them to say. No evidence is required. It's not an exaggeration. Look at the evidence compiled here, and the harm done.
These are not journalists. They are obsequious spokespeople for the CIA & other agencies. These are agents of disinformation: state media. And when they speak, you should listen to them with the knowledge of what they are, and treat them accordingly.

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18 Apr
What Fauci says here is absurd. That COVID is a public health crisis doesn't mean it "has nothing to do with civil liberties." Of course lockdowns, mandates, vaccine passports, etc. affect civil liberties. Doesn't mean those rights should always prevail, but denying that is inane
The way Fauci is talking here -- civil liberties concerns don't matter when we're talking about the risk of death -- is exactly the mentality of the Cheney/Rove Warriors on Terror: we can't concern ourselves with civil liberties when lives are on the line.
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17 Apr
These same media outlets keep purporting to "confirm" one another's false stories (I wrote about this tactic here: greenwald.substack.com/p/how-do-big-m…). Look how many times👇.

But the worst part is they *never* explain themselves - how it happened - or even admit it did. They just move on:
All these media outlets who keep publishing false stories and purporting to "confirm" one another's (see the above examples) have media reporters, public editors, etc. But they'll never acknowledge it. It just all gets buried. Why is this happening?

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By far the most Fake News and unhinged conspiracy theories comes from the liberal corporate media outlets that keep demanding that the internet be censored in order to stop "disinformation." They mislead more people, more often, than anyone, and it's not close.
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17 Apr
Have I mentioned lately that corporate employees who work for the NYT/NBC/CNN axis literally believe that claims from the US security state or related official agencies are supposed to be deemed true without evidence needed, and they do this daily? It's their pro-CIA ideology.
Look at the examples I compiled here. Beyond the Russia Bounty debacle, the Treasury Dept on Thursday issued a *Press Release* with a 1-sentence assertion that had literally no evidence, yet look how many corporate media people treated it as Proven Truth:

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Just amazing how they all moved on from RUSSIAN BOUNTIES like the whole thing never happened.
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17 Apr
This tweet made it seem like this article is yet another dreary anti-Substack screed from envious corporate media, but it's actually a typically smart & insightful analysis from @jackshafer: one of the best written on why Substack is so important for journalism. Please read:
One vital change Substack is enabling is *not* eliminating editors - many of us have hired our own - but it prevents editors from being newsroom dictators & censors, one of the plagues ruining journalism, since it flattens and homogenizes voices & imposes ideological orthodoxy.
If you read 2013 interviews from myself, Jeremy Scahill or Pierre Omidyar about how The Intercept was going to be different, it was that: journalists would choose their own editors they trust, and editors would empower - not boss around or dictate - the writers & reporters.
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"It was a blockbuster story....The Kremlin had spread money around [Afghanistan] for militants to kill US forces. It sparked a massive outcry from Democrats...But on Thursday, the Biden Admin. announced that U.S. intelligence only had “low to moderate” confidence in the story."
Remember this as you watch cable stars claiming to be "journalists" yet again treat a U.S. intelligence agency assertion, completely unaccompanied by evidence, as Truth.

This, apparently, is what they mean by "Real Reporting™": blind faith in CIA pronouncements.
There's a new government report out today that makes a claim about Russiagate: the eternal crack pipe of the corporate media. The claim has no evidence: just a CIA/DHS assertion.

Just watch how many media figures on Twitter are now treating it as Gospel: not to be questioned.
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This is an incredibly important and illuminating thread, brilliantly constructed, showing how the NYT/CNN/MSNBC/WPost axis spoke about Trump's attempt to withdrawal from Afghanistan in the exact opposite way as they are depicting Biden's. Just look for yourself at what they are:
Let me add one amazing example. Look at this:

On the left, beloved liberal @NewYorker writer @sbg1 warned *just 6 months ago* that opposition by Generals to Trump's withdrawal announcement was some grave crisis. *Today*, she heralds Biden as courageous for defying his Generals!
These media people are absolutely craven and bereft of principles. They deserves the loss of trust and scorn the public harbors from them. They don't even realize they're doing it: they think they're honest reporters. That's why there's no self-critique.

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