Greenwald: However much you despise these media outlets, it’s not enough.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Glenn Greenwald, has just released an hour+ long video detailing how the mainstream media, CIA and tech giants conspired to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story (which detailed corruption from then VP Joe Biden) weeks before the 2020 presidential election. In the words of Greenwald, “However much you despise these media outlets, it’s not enough.”
It’s so easy to recognize and denounce the censorship, repression and propaganda in distant countries we’re taught from childhood to hate (Russia). It’s (much) more difficult — and more important — to recognize it in our own. Pre-election censorship of this story was a disgrace…However much you despise these media outlets, it’s not enough.
Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald
Here’s some background. The Washington Examiner reports:
Top Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger released a book today examining the Biden family’s “fifty-year rise to power” in which, among other reports about the family’s problematic profiteering, Schreckinger confirms the authenticity of some of the emails found on the laptop in question….the nature of these particular emails confirmed by Schreckinger’s book is important. One was the single most significant email included in and highlighted by the early New York Post reports. In the April 17, 2015, email, Ukrainian businessman Vadym Pozharskyi thanked Hunter Biden for having arranged a meeting the night before with his father, Joe Biden. The elder Biden always asserted that he never discussed Hunter’s Ukrainian business dealings with him, and Joe Biden’s spokesmen claimed he never spent time with Pozharskyi on the night in question even though he definitely dined that evening at the restaurant in question.
One final point: when Facebook announced that it would algorithmically suppress this reporting, it did so through a life-long Dem operative, @andymstone, who claimed it was being done only until they did a "fact-check" on the docs. It never came. Why? Because the docs were real. pic.twitter.com/VTzVrO2xBl
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 21, 2021
And yet, that was the NPR/polite society/well-informed view and even the top brass at Facebook got involved. Check back at this post later and we’ll post the Glenn Greenwald video when it is available.
Please watch this video from CNN's Wolf Blitzer show shortly before the election. Now that we have (more) proof that the Biden docs were always genuine, just watch how these people lie. If this doesn't make you furious, and you don't despise this part of the media, you're wrong. pic.twitter.com/MnhkOolecp
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 21, 2021
2) CNN's @camanpour -- the week before the election -- explicitly refusing to discuss the reporting on the Biden family by claiming that it's not the media's job to determine if the documents are or are not authentic. Watch this shit:pic.twitter.com/mkI4Jtd4SN
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 21, 2021
As a reminder, this is what happened:
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 21, 2021
* It was obvious from the start the Hunter docs were authentic.
* They concerned *Joe's* activities, not Hunter's.
* CIA lied, saying it was "Russian disinformation."
* Big Tech & media united to *censor* the reporting to protect Biden.
Beyond the Intercept -- of all places -- laundering CIA lies to justify its refusal to allow reporting on the Biden archive, here were the two most repulsive examples.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 21, 2021
1) The NPR Public Editor on why it refused to discuss the story:https://t.co/BIbaThjPqu