Thread by @JanJekielek

📰Essential reading for those tracking "fake news" (which I can't hashtag for some reason)

There is so much in this @ggreenwald piece worthy of quoting that I don't know quite where to start, but here goes. Best just read the whole thing end-to-end. 🧵1/n
greenwald.substack.com/p/corporate-ne…

"Every journalist, even the most honest and careful, will get things wrong sometimes, and trustworthy journalists issue prompt corrections when they do. That behavior should be *trust-building*. But when media outlets continue to use the same reckless and deceitful tactics…" 2/n

"—such as claiming to have “independently confirmed” one another's false stories when they have merely served as stenographers for the same anonymous security state agents while "confirming” nothing—that strongly suggests a complete indifference to the truth &, even more so…"3/n

"…a willingness to serve as disinformation agents for various official factions." 4/n

"And when a journalist spreads a false story and knows they have done so, but still refuses to correct it or remove it — as is the case for many of the above examples — then they are just tawdry liars who should be driven out of journalism." 5/n

"But they are not driven out and will not be because the reality is that their job is to spread disinformation as long as it is in servitude to the right factions (the CIA, FBI and DNC) and against those who are ideologically disfavored." 6/n

"Again we see the core truth of U.S. corporate journalism. The outlets that most vocally claim to condemn disinformation and fake news…" 7/n

"—to the point of agitating in favor of corporate and online #censorship of their critics and competitors in the name of combating it—are the most prolific, aggressive and destructive disseminators of #disinformation." 8/n

"Their refusal to remove the fake news here even after I explicitly notified them of it just makes this latest example a particularly vivid one."

@ggreenwald's on fire—again, read the whole piece end-to-end. Now for a little of my own commentary… 9/n
greenwald.substack.com/p/corporate-ne…

What @ggreenwald is clearly doing is *pursuing truth*, what every journalist worth anything today is likewise doing. He's doing it, as are all those who are seriously in this game, aware of our own biases & expectations. And he's doing it most thoroughly. For this… 10/n

.@ggreenwald has earned my respect & admiration & has become one of the few monthly subscriptions I pay for. Doing proper, truth-seeking journalism is a lot of work. I appreciate his willingness to report what most wont, do it eloquently & often challenge my assumptions. 11/end