Washington Post’s Russiagate retraction
Another major editor’s note attached to a Washington Post Russiagate story.
This one is essentially a retraction. There’s no way for major media outlets can keep evading this accountability. It’s crashing down. Glenn Greenwald, via Twitter
Another major editor’s note attached to a Washington Post Russiagate story (see others: https://t.co/56HwMKrW7k & https://t.co/7wuV1rw13x).
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 12, 2021
This one is essentially a retraction. There’s no way for major media outlets can keep evading this accountability. It’s crashing down. https://t.co/lPmqVqFISl
The Washington Post just retracted two major stories it published on the Steele Dossier: with the perhaps unprecedented step of removing huge parts of the articles and re-writing them. Yet it still refuses to say who lied to make them publish this:
The scope of the media’s Russiagate fraud is only starting to be appreciated. @mtaibbi has called it “this generation’s WMDs” in terms of media malfeasance. Look at how extreme their conduct now is in trying to clean it up: reflecting what a huge, sustained fraud this was:
Glenn Greenwald via Twitter
The scope of the media’s Russiagate fraud is only starting to be appreciated. @mtaibbi has called it "this generation’s WMDs" in terms of media malfeasance. Look at how extreme their conduct now is in trying to clean it up: reflecting what a huge, sustained fraud this was: pic.twitter.com/1P1GutKHvT
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 12, 2021
I think they’ll just quietly add notes like this and then move on. The advantage they have is that they’re all guilty outside of right-wing media, so they all have a common interest in memory-holing it as soon as possible, and they will.
Glenn Greenwald via Twitter
I think they’ll just quietly add notes like this and then move on. The advantage they have is that they’re all guilty outside of right-wing media, so they all have a common interest in memory-holing it as soon as possible, and they will.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 12, 2021
Note: See The Steele Dossier here.