Quote of the Day on US Media Practices
From Glen Greenwald
Twice in the last year, I have written about this bizarre practice where media outlets purport to “independently confirm” one another's false stories by doing nothing more than going to the same anonymous sources who whisper to them the same things while providing no evidence. Yet they use this phrase “independent confirmation” to purposely imply that they obtained separate evidence corroborating the truth of the original story
This awful practice, which I see all the time, let's one anonymous source create a fictional narrative that dominates news cycles.
If you are not reading Glen Greenwald, you should. When I recommend that a Marxist should be on your reading list, take that seriously. If you don't want to pay, his work generally appears free a couple of days later on Zero Hedge and other places. Today's quote is from today's email blast on yet another Russian conspiracy theory, crafted apparently to stop the US's overdue exit from Afghanistan, which now appears to have been almost completely fabricated.
