Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@hugebigtime I think it's important and noteworthy that huge numbers of people are abandoning corporate media outlets and now no longer care about or trust what they say. It's a huge story, not a petty one, and as a journalist I'm going to point it out. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@mattsaagman @LiberalDogMom LOL - it's very on the nose. So that means CNN is still waiting for their first. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@basedballcrank I'm sorry you're about 6 weeks behind Tucker and right-wing members of Congress with this statement but better late than never. Displacing your embarrassment by attacking me doesn't seem very rational. ✊ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This is a reasonably good article on the background and history of US involvement in Ukraine from the left-wing site @FAIRmediawatch with some vital facts almost always omitted from corporate media discussions of Russia/Ukraine: https://t.co/BmZ4hnF55e — PolitiTweet.org

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Apparently, real "socialism" is the 2002 iteration of neoconservatism. Who knew? https://t.co/7kag3S6lrk — PolitiTweet.org

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That said, it's worth reading the angry replies from DSA and adjacent activists to this above statement. Bernie was one of the most vocal Russiagaters -- whether out of political opportunism or conviction -- and that turned many young leftists into anti-Russia hawks. — PolitiTweet.org

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Glad to see DSA joining Tucker Carlson and other members of the more anti-war wing of the American right in finally urging this. *This* is the coalition that can finally provide a meaningful impediment to endless US militarism that benefits only a tiny sector in Washington. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LiberalDogMom Well that's great. They got one. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@hugebigtime I've always focused on the failures of corporate media outlets. Always. The only thing that changed is that people on the liberal-left now share the same ideology as the large media corporations, even though they don't like to admit it, and thus now get angry when I do. — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm not asking to be disparaging but earnestly: What's the business rationale for believing that TV personalities on CNN who nobody wants to watch when it's on for free free will suddenly find an audience which has to pay to watch? Don Lemon's audience is shockingly miniscule. — PolitiTweet.org

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@QweenDancing @JoyAnnReid Do you understand it's the same defense as the one raised first by Maddow? The argument raised by both Maddow and Tucker's lawyers wasn't that the whole show is satire but that the specific comments, understood in context, were meant as hyperbole and mockery, not literally. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mtracey: Will the entire US corporate media censor itself for spreading "misinformation" if Russia doesn't invade Ukraine? Did they cen… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JackPosobiec Couldn't agree more. Some people have their prior views and statements held against them for life and some are allowed to have the whole slate wiped clean and the only difference is who has the ideology liked by those deciding and who doesn't. — PolitiTweet.org

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@QweenDancing @JoyAnnReid That's not what happened. The defense was first raised by Maddow to successfully defend her against a defamation suit, and it's a common one defamation lawyers make about satire and context: https://t.co/hknM8rXdH1 — PolitiTweet.org

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@fjriwlpq I had been on Maher's show a few times and never really liked doing it, so only went back to have that debate. And yeah, Joy was sitting right next to me.🤣 — PolitiTweet.org

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@Dawn61182940 He's saying that his brother was a worker, that the entire family works, that they came to Brazil and love it as their second home, the country that gave them a chance for a better life, only for his brother to be beaten and murdered in a senseless act of savagery. Gut-wrenching. — PolitiTweet.org

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While all Good and Serious Media are united in concern over Rogan, let's recall that @JoyAnnReid got caught making up an outright lie - a time-traveling hacker wrote her bigoted blog posts - and then got *promoted* by NBC News shortly after. Corporate media has no standards. https://t.co/zG4NFU2bJc — PolitiTweet.org

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@DefNotDarth Most people have different sides to them. We're all complex. Chris Hayes wrote a 2011 book about how all people will be subsumed by the corporate ethos in which they immerse themselves. Mehdi works at a horrible media corporation, but the human part of him isn't coopted by that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AdilLeonard1 Yes. Humans have the capacity to reason and all kinds of people end up growing in vastly opposite directions as the frameworks they were taught to believe in childhood. — PolitiTweet.org

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(Or maybe it's more accurate to say that the standards for who is allowed to be free of past bad thoughts and statements isn't so much "arbitrary" as it is manipulated and wielded for power: to reward some political factions while eternally punishing others). — PolitiTweet.org

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I developed a friendship with Mehdi many years ago. I have *no doubt that he no longer holds these views and sentiments. He's a good example - most of us are - of why people need space to change, evolve and grow. But the standards for who is & isn't allowed to are very arbitrary. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Propalando Se você acha que Luna vai ganhar no primeiro turno -- o que exige que ele ganhe mais de 50% --, por que você não acha que ele vai ganhar se tiver que ir para o segundo turno (onde ele precisa de 50% para ganhar)? Isso não faz sentido. — PolitiTweet.org

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@willemdeboer82 They were really quite *unanimous* (deleted my prior tweet where I accidentally wrote "anonymous). — PolitiTweet.org

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Moïse Kabamgabe was 25 when he was brutally murdered on a Rio beach yesterday. They continued to beat him with fists, kicks and wood long after he was unconscious. They tied his hands with wire: all captured on camera. Humans are capable of such great good and great evil. https://t.co/De78yTlxC2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Some crimes are so savage and senseless they just horrify in unique ways. A man who came with his family to Brazil as a child to escape war in Congo was beaten to death in Rio by 5 men *over 15 minutes* for asking for his 2 days of late pay for working at a beach kiosk: — PolitiTweet.org

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@thatbootyjiggle That is 70% if not more of what is going on here. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The good news is that since there's not a presidential election imminent, there will be no reason for Big Tech and large corporate media outlets to embrace a CIA lie to justify censorship of this reporting, so Americans might get to hear about it this time: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@morganastro Yes, I've been targeted by multiple governments and corporate surveillance units around the world for my work, but I won't feel truly important until I'm denounced by a couple of septuagenarian singers from the 1960s. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

What is Rogan accused of that corporate media doesn't do routinely and far more harmfully? Those outlets are dissent-free zones. To work at a large media corporation means rarely talking to anyone who tells you you're wrong. Rogan constantly airs dissent and acknowledges error. — PolitiTweet.org

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@willemdeboer82 They were really quite anonymous. — PolitiTweet.org