Greenwald on Nord Stream: “You Have to Spread Lies on Behalf of the CIA to Get Ahead in Journalism”
Glenn Greenwald: Seymour Hersh is being attacked for reporting “what most rational people already believe”
Speaking on his YouTube show, Glenn Greenwald went off on reporters seeking to discredit fellow investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. “What you can’t do, what Hersh did, is you spread ‘conspiracy theories’ that are against the narrative of the US security state, that undermine US foreign policy. That’s the only thing that’s prohibited” Greenwald said.
Seymour Hersh has “long been hated in Washington circles … for his refusal to play ball” which “used to be the hallmark” of good reporting, but not in the “era of corporatized media”, Greenwald said.
Hersh is being attacked for reporting “what most rational people already believe: That it was not Russia which blew up its own Nord Stream pipeline,” but “instead it was the US.” Greenwald called Seymour Hersh, “the most illustrious journalist of his generation.”
NEW: Glenn Greenwald breaks down Business Insider’s smear of Seymour Hersh.
“Not a single person at this site has ever broken a single story of note, let alone a series of major stories… This whole framing is childish and pitiful.”@ggreenwaldhttps://t.co/mT0OyxHohepic.twitter.com/ekXeoYtc6h
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 11, 2023
Greenwald cited a story by Mia Jankowicz on “Business Insider” titled “The claim by a discredited journalist that the US secretly blew up the Nord Stream pipeline is proving a gift to Putin.”
Sy Hersh is one of the most accomplished and important journalists of his generation.
Someone who works for “Business Insider,” @miajankowicz, has never broken a story of note in her life.
This is how she and that site describes Hersh’s report on the US blowing up Nord Stream: pic.twitter.com/txYlGiZrAy
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 10, 2023
“Who is ‘Business Insider’ and Mia Jankowicz to talk about Sy Hersh in this way? Who discredited Sy Hersh?”, Greenwald said. “Not a single person at this site has ever broken a story, yet they talk about him as if he’s some sort of unmentionable.”
Who gives a shit if a news report is a “gift to Putin”? What a dumb and childish mindset. The only question an actual journalist asks: is this story true? Propagandists are concerned with “who does this story help or hurt?”
As for Hersh’s expulsion from corporate journalism: pic.twitter.com/x2jHbN11RV
— Glenn
Source: The Gateway Pundit
