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One recent example that captured Greenwald's disdain for the corporate press was its coddling of Nina Jankowicz, the Biden administration's handpicked executive director of the so-called "Disinformation Governance Board," which the DHS ultimately shelved following intense public backlash.
Greenwald described Jankowicz as a "resistance activist" after critics highlighted her pro-Democrat tweets, as well as her documented history of peddling misinformation, from elevating the Trump-Russia collusion narrative to dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop as a "Trump campaign product."
Except not one journalist had pressed her about the falsehoods she elevated during her media tour in the weeks following the collapse of the "Disinfo Board." Instead, they portrayed her as being the victim of right-wing attacks.
"The reality is that the people who most aggressively and destructively peddle and disseminate fake news and disinformation are the people who most vocally claim to be so concerned about it," Greenwald said. "This is such a perfect example of how disinformation has basically come to mean anything that is undermining of or subversive to the interests of the Democratic Party."
He continued, "The consensus of the corporate media is that she was victimized by a campaign of disinformation. You would think, to substantiate that claim, they would identify what was said about her that was false or misleading. And never once did they do so… Because really what they mean by disinformation is questioning of their orthodoxies and pieties. That's what the word effectively really means."
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I find Greenwald an intersing person. His take on the mainstream media appears accurate. I do not always agree with some of his policy positions, but his criticism of the mainstream media is spot on.
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