Glenn Greenwald — The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst — and Filled with Falsehoods

Another blaze of BS from Pravda the Sunday Times (UK).

Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it’s hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, then uncritically accept those anonymously voiced claims as Truth. But they’ve learned no such lesson. That tactic continues to be the staple of how major US and British media outlets “report,” especially in the national security area. And journalists who read such reports continue to treat self-serving decrees by unnamed, unseen officials – laundered through their media – as gospel, no matter how dubious are the claims or factually false is the reporting...

Good article. Rupert strikes again.

At this point, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that journalists want it this way. It’s impossible that they don’t know better.

It's part of the selection process. Remember how Cenk Ugyar selected himself out of MSNBC after having been selected in and guaranteed the big bucks when he discovered that this was only if he towed the line?

The Intercept
The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst — and Filled with Falsehoods
Glenn Greenwald

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