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Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

17 May

It's hard to overstate how severely the audience for MSNBC has collapsed with Trump gone. For the key demographic of 25-54, they barely can get 150,000 to watch even their prime time shows (outside of Maddow). More people watch a YouTube show.

adweek.com/tvnewser/thurs…

CNN's problems are a little different but just as bad. For their prime-time shows, they can barely get 1 million people *total* to watch, including all the old people who make up the vast bulk of cable news watchers for the two liberal networks. Look at this:

Liberal media outlets were dying before Trump came along. He was like some artificial 5-year sugar high that saved all their jobs. But now that he's gone, they're doing as badly as digital liberal media, with *zero* self-critique or attempt to figure out why.

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Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

15 May

@Julio_Rosas11

At some point, journalists are going to need consistent, universally applicable standards that answer this:

Why is it OK to use a billionaire's money to produce a video attacking reporters @Julio_Rosas11 & @VenturaReport, but it's immoral to criticize NYT & Intercept writers?

My view is very clear: any journalist who enters the public discourse and tries to influence political debates is fair game for criticism.

But you can't have a double standard where liberal journalists are sacred & untouchable and only non-liberal journalists can be attacked.

Put another way: if you produce a 20 minute video that has no point but to attack working-class journalists of color who cover a dangerous and violent group that routinely assault reporters, you don't get to whine and self-victimize when people criticize how you did it.

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Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

15 May

@mtracey

Good @mtracey article asking how and why the new Trump-led Right - which brands itself as both America First and anti-war - not only reflexively sides with Israel but seems to see that country as one of their most important & passionately held priorities:

mtracey.substack.com/p/america-firs…

"Israeli warplanes pounded the Gaza Strip Saturday, killing at least eight children in a refugee camp and flattening a high-rise building housing the offices of international media outlets as Hamas unleashed a new barrage of rockets."

nbcnews.com/news/world/isr…

https://twitter.com/jpaceDC/status/1393546155779313664

It will be interesting to see how US journalists -- who spent 4 years equating mean tweets and petty insults as some sort of grave attack on press freedom -- talk about this:

https://twitter.com/jpaceDC/status/1393546155779313664

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Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

14 May

@charlie_savage

I'm really sorry @charlie_savage's huge CIA scoop about Russian bounties -- that misled so many people for so long in very dangerous ways -- fell apart. But attacking me won't save it. Read here about who actually debunked it. CIA isn't a great source:

thedailybeast.com/us-intel-walks…

https://twitter.com/charlie_savage/status/1393281188610121728

I guess if I were a NYT reporter who did stenography service for CIA to prolong a war and escalate tensions with a nuclear power, only for it to blow up in my face, I'd also want to pretend it's one person's fault. But everyone pointed it out, not just me

bbc.com/news/world-us-…

Charlie keeps denying that the reason his CIA friends leaked this story to him about Russian bounties was because they wanted to prevent Trump withdrawing from Afghanistan. I guess it's a *huge coincidence* that the NYT told the CIA tale *one day* before Trump's withdrawal plans:

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Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

14 May

@micahflee

If you, your relatives, or your friends are Gab users, remember that @micahflee is spending his days and nights trolling through your/their personal data with the intent -- as @TheIntercept proudly announced when fund-raising -- to expose them if they have the wrong ideology.

@TheIntercept

Acting like the NSA/FBI, @TheIntercept and Lee have already doxed one person -- not an official with any government agency, just someone with a political group whose ideology they oppose -- and they got it completely wrong when exposing him.

theintercept.com/2021/03/15/gab…

@jeremyscahill

In 2013, I had a long exchange with then-Executive Editor of the NYT Bill Keller about the new media outlet I was building with @jeremyscahill & Laura Poitras. It's hard to put into words how completely the NYC editors who had no role in creating this have violated all of this:

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Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

14 May

Liz Cheney Lied About Her Role in Spreading the Discredited CIA "Russian Bounty" Story

greenwald.substack.com/p/liz-cheney-l…

@BretBaier

As part of her ideological war to reclaim the GOP for neocons, the now-deposed House leader falsely denied to @BretBaier yesterday her role in a tale designed to block withdrawal from Afghanistan. She lied repeatedly in this short clip (from @CurtisHouck):

To justify her opposition to Trump's plan to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, Liz Cheney cited the CIA's Russian bounty story without skepticism in a June 27 statement she posted. She then threatened Russia with retaliation based on this discredited story. Watch: