Glenn Greenwald Slams Liberal Media for ‘Extreme Groupthink’

Nicholas Fondacaro | October 18, 2017
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In a Tuesday appearance on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, the progressive journalist and co-founder of The Intercept Glenn Greenwald spoke with Carlson about the media’s fixation with the Russia story and how they got so many things wrong. And in the process, Greenwald called out the liberal media for being a self-gratifying echo chamber where consequences for false reporting no longer apply but benefits flow.

Greenwald pointed out how the media was eager and will to sprint to publish any “inflammatory” information pertaining to the Russia investigation no matter how often they “turn out to be totally false.” And with absolutely no consequences from their employer or colleagues.

They get enormous benefits when they publish recklessly,” he added. “They get applause on social media from their peers, they get zillions of retweets, huge amounts of traffic, they end up on TV. They get applauded across the spectrum because people are so giddy and eager to hear more about this Russia and Trump story.

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