Remember: ALL journalism is sophistical. Not "liberal," or "conservative," or "controlled" journalism; ALL of it. Keep this in mind even and *especially* when journos happen to be right for whatever reason.
The reason that other journos hate Greenwald is that he's bought into the journo ideology so much that he's open about what it is. He doesn't even concive that normal people would be fundamentally revolted by the essence of his profession, like his less dramatic colleagues.
It's the same reason other gangsters disliked Al Capone. Was he doing anything differently? Not really, but he didn't give a fuck if normal people knew what exactly that was. "Hey," Greenwald says, "of course journalism isn't about truth. What're you, retarded ? 😂"
Other people have called him a propagandist, which is close but misses the point of what he says in the thread. He publishes conflicting views because he doesn't care what you believe. He wants to keep "the conversation" going. Compare to real propagandists like Capra or Goebbels
This is what separates propagandists from journos. Hitler tells Goebbels what he wants Germans to think. Germans know this is the case. For a journo, an NGO/oligarch hires guys who "start important conversations." The point is to BULLSHIT, not to "present our side" or to lie.

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