[Peace-discuss] Glenn Greenwald has a principled examination of the recent searches of Project Veritas journalists

[Roger Helbig]

Greenwald outright lied on the CitizenFour mocumentary so what do you
expect - he never was a real journalist - he always has had a cause and
agenda and finding the truth was secondary or tertiary to that.

Roger Helbig

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 5:58 PM J.B. Nicholson via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Recently there was a "court-ordered search at the New York apartment of
> the Project
> Veritas founder [James O'Keefe] two days after searching the homes of his
> associates"
> according to the New York times (2021-11-06). NYT's language in a related
> article
> from 2021-11-11 is incredibly suspect, as should be expected of that
> outlet by now.
>
> Glenn Greenwald has a video on these articles and related articles showing
> how
> hypocritical the NYT and others are:
>
> Video
>
> https://rumble.com/vp9ozz-project-veritas-assange-and-the-authoritarian-decrees-of-who-is-and-is-not-.html
> https://youtube.com/watch?v=17rlhtzkcSQ
>
> Transcript (for subscribers only, as you'll see when you visit the page)
> https://systemupdate.substack.com/p/video-transcript-project-veritas
>
> The NYT's no-true-Scotsman argument is dangerous and harmful to our
> freedom under the
> 1st Amendment but they're not alone in trying to advance the idea that the
> 1st
> Amendment is only for an elite subset of Americans. That argument is part
> of the
> rationale used against journalist Julian Assange and seems to be the wave
> of the
> future where some journalists are worthy of 1st Amendment protection and
> other who do
> the work of a journalist aren't really journalists at all (someone who
> "likes to
> describe himself" as a journalist, as the 2021-11-11 NYT claimed about
> O'Keefe).
>
> For the NYT, Washington Post, CNN, and other outlets which repeat
> Russiagate lies,
> published Iraqi WMD claims during the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq,
> and ran
> Douma gas attack lies to now reject undercover journalism because
> undercover work
> involves lying is hilarious hypocrisy.
>
> Greenwald also points out the telling terms used to separate who is and
> isn't a
> journalist (versus being an "activist", "agitator", or a "blogger").
> Another example
> along that line came to my mind: On October 30, 2019 the
> establishment-serving
> Democracy Now did a comparable attempted reframing or minimization of
> journalist Max
> Blumenthal, initially called him a "blogger". After complaints DN later
> changed the
> title of their article to call him a journalist. DN tried to edit their
> archives to
> reflect this change but the URL they published the article under continues
> to give
> the game away. I covered this in
>
> https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2019-December/051702.html
> and you
> can find that DN article in
>
> https://www.democracynow.org/2019/10/30/headlines/blogger_max_blumenthal_says_he_was_arrested_on_false_charges
> which still bears the old title where Max Blumenthal is merely a "blogger"
> in this
> division DN apparently agrees with.
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