So will this be the policy going forward from now on? When a newspaper like the NYT or the WPost get an exclusive sent to them by a government source, or when CNN and NBC get told what to say by the CIA, will they immediately share it all with every other news organization? https://t.co/wFIQUGBXtg
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 25, 2023
Remember when Rachel Maddow announced she had been given exclusive copies of Trump's tax returns (which she then spent 35 minutes introducing because it revealed nothing)?
I don't remember a single person demanding she share it with all news outlets to ensure proper coverage.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 25, 2023
Nancy Pelosi's daughter – who isn't a journalist or a security expert or anything: just Nancy's daughter – was given security footage of Fort McNair- the secure space on 1/6 – in order to make a film about her mom, and nobody objected that this compromised security.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 25, 2023
The 1/6 Committee filed with unified political actors selectively released and withheld footage to serve their political ends. CNN got "exclusive" footage of Ft. McNair, and nobody cared. They showed Pence and McCarthy's escape route, and nobody objected:https://t.co/r3e4zHvyAQ
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 25, 2023
One of the many reasons people rightfully hate corporate media is they're frauds. They invent rules that suit their momentary needs and pretend they're long-standing. They demand to be treated as special. They've been getting exclusives like this for decades and don't share them. pic.twitter.com/EYdBWvlDSR
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 25, 2023
The fear being expressed here — "an ideologically-based narrative…will take hold in the public consciousness" — is what's already happened.
For 2 years, all we were allowed to see was the 1/6 footage that Adam Schiff and Liz Cheney picked for us.https://t.co/U5YN4UvdDw
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 25, 2023
And there ya go–the media's faux outrage and sudden interest in otherwise sealed government materials largely inconsistent with its conduct the past 2 years https://t.co/z7VXkDcpyv
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) February 25, 2023
And we demand the absolute proof from the M.S. Media and quit blaming Trump
Well, no legitimate news organization would want any of the “exclusive” lies shared with NYT or CNN. As I’ve said before, if the Ministry of Propaganda wanted to see the full library of January 6th videos, they should have been demanding they be released long ago… like Carlson and Fox have.
The downside is going to be that all the defendants wrongly prosecuted and imprisoned that will be cleared by the new video (which they should have legally already had access to) will sue the government and, as usual, the US taxpayer will be on the hook to pay for the fascist actions of the Democrats.
As long as they keep holding trials in DC, the innocent will continue to be convicted and sent to prison and the real criminals will continue to get off free. There were a half a million protesters in DC that day. If they wanted to “overthrow” the government they could have done so with ease. All of those clowns would have been hanging from light posts. Them panicking over the tapes being released is all the proof one needs to see that their narrative was another big lie.