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Glenn Greenwald destroys CNN and the rest of the #FakeNews mainstream media's Russia circle jerk obsession
Posted by: #FakeNews ()
Date: June 27, 2017 03:28PM

"BUT CNN IS hardly alone when it comes to embarrassing retractions regarding Russia. Over and over, major U.S. media outlets have published claims about the Russia Threat that turned out to be completely false — always in the direction of exaggerating the threat and/or inventing incriminating links between Moscow and the Trump circle. In virtually all cases, those stories involved evidence-free assertions from anonymous sources that these media outlets uncritically treated as fact, only for it to be revealed that they were entirely false."

https://theintercept.com/2017/06/27/cnn-journalists-resign-latest-example-of-media-recklessness-on-the-russia-threat/


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Re: Glenn Greenwald destroys CNN and the rest of the #FakeNews mainstream media's Russia circle jerk obsession
Posted by: Glenn Greenwald ()
Date: June 27, 2017 03:30PM

WHAT IS MOST notable about these episodes is that they all go in the same direction: hyping and exaggerating the threat posed by the Kremlin. All media outlets will make mistakes; that is to be expected. But when all of the “mistakes” are devoted to the same rhetorical theme, and when they all end up advancing the same narrative goal, it seems clear that they are not the byproduct of mere garden-variety journalistic mistakes.

There are great benefits to be reaped by publishing alarmist claims about the Russian Threat and Trump’s connection to it. Stories that depict the Kremlin and Putin as villains and grave menaces are the ones that go most viral, produce the most traffic, generate the most professional benefits such as TV offers, along with online praise and commercial profit for those who disseminate them. That’s why blatantly inane anti-Trump conspiracists and Russia conspiracies now command such a large audience: because there is a voracious appetite among anti-Trump internet and cable news viewers for stories, no matter how false, that they want to believe are true (and, conversely, expressing any skepticism about such stories results in widespread accusations that one is a Kremlin sympathizer or outright agent).

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Re: Glenn Greenwald destroys CNN and the rest of the #FakeNews mainstream media's Russia circle jerk obsession
Posted by: Worst Libs will continue toWatch ()
Date: June 27, 2017 03:33PM

Their audience just may be reduced to a small fraction of viewers comprised of severely mentally ill persons.

We'll see.

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Re: Glenn Greenwald destroys CNN and the rest of the #FakeNews mainstream media's Russia circle jerk obsession
Posted by: hey, I know that guy ()
Date: June 27, 2017 03:37PM

Worst Libs will continue toWatch Wrote:
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> Their audience just may be reduced to a small
> fraction of viewers comprised of severely mentally
> ill persons.
>
> We'll see.


Like Gerry.

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