Posted on 10/31/2022 7:19:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald said Sunday that there was a very simple reason that members of his chosen profession seemed unwilling to question the narrative surrounding the alleged attack on Paul Pelosi — namely the possibility that asking questions could put their careers at risk.
Greenwald laid out his theory in a Twitter thread, saying that it didn’t even matter whether or not the prevailing narrative — that the person who was arrested at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) was a far-right conspiracy theorist and election denier — was true. The point, he said, was that it couldn’t be questioned.
“It’s very possible that the instantly formed media narrative — Paul Pelosi’s attacker was a MAGA fanatic who broke in to murder Nancy — will be proven true. But right now there are so many glaring doubts and holes in that story that it just takes common sense to question this,” Greenwald began.
“It’s genuinely alarming how conditioned so much of the U.S. population is to equate skepticism toward the pronouncements of media corporations with mental illness: ‘If you don’t instantly accept what Wolf Blitzer and Andrea Mitchell claim, then you’re a crazy conspiracy theorist.'”
Greenwald went on to explain that even journalists who had questions about the prevailing narrative — on any topic — often felt as though they couldn’t say anything without risking their jobs or even their entire careers.
“It’s so crucial to understand the dynamic dominating journalism. Few journalists have career security,” Greenwald continued. “Imagine you’re a young journalist at a big media corporation. You know if you ask these questions, Twitter will explode and it can ruin your career.”
He then shared a tweet from Steve Krakauer that included just a few of the questions he thought media ought to be asking.
“Why wasn’t there signs of forced entry at Pelosi home?”
“Who was 3rd person who opened door for police?”
“Why was Pelosi holding hammer and attack only happened after police arrived?”
“Where is bodycam/security footage?”
“Why isn’t the press asking these questions?”
“This happened during Russiagate,” Greenwald added, saying that he had gotten a number of messages from journalists who worked for larger media corporations — and they had expressed their thanks that he was willing to question the narrative because they couldn’t do it.
“One Twitter mob against them for questioning Dem narrative (see @DashaBurns or @BoKnowNews) can be career-ending,” he said.
Greenwald said that he believed many journalists saw the “glaring questions and evidentiary holes” in the story that had been pushed so far regarding Pelosi, but especially in the last days before the midterm election, the narrative was even more important than usual. “Why stick their heads up, provoke a liberal Twitter mob, and be branded?” he asked. “That’s the climate.”
“Police investigating the Paul Pelosi attack continue to state they *do not know the motive.* Yet liberal “thought leaders” like @HillaryClinton and @jimmykimmel have decreed that not only is the motive known to them, but only insane or malicious people would question them,” Greenwald continued.
Greenwald went on to say that he wasn’t ready to ascribe any motives because he didn’t feel that he’d seen enough evidence to do so, adding, “The preferred narrative may end up right but most of it is based on massaged-by-CNN anonymous claims.”
He then listed the questions he’d like to see answered before claiming he understood exactly what went down in the Pelosi’s home:
“How someone broke into the home of one of the richest and most powerful families without setting off an alarm?”
“How Paul Pelosi could call 9/11 in the middle of this?”
“Who is the ‘unknown’ person who opened the door for the police?”
“Where is the video?”
Could reveal the truth and not the lie that this person was associated with January 6th.
This is another massive commie RAT coverup conducted by the toadies in the “media”. If you’re a “journalist”, you damn sure better follow the narrative. Trump and the MAGAs did it or else.
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If you can’t question, then they rule over you. Cowards and slaves.
I thought they built a wall around their house. Maybe there were capital police there to let the guy in.
There is a new monster on the block telling these libs to comply with their defeat or else. The price they can pay is 100 times worse than they can imagine. Their worst nightmare! The evidence came out about it this past week.
Instead of selling out the nation for a paycheck (must have learned it from the FBI), they could tell the truth, get fired, then present that as solid credentials for a job with https://justthenews.com/.
Sharyl Attkisson will them how: https://sharylattkisson.com/
Only citizen journalists can ask questions. Anyone in the biz must only report what they are told to report. It doesn’t matter one whit if it doesn’t add up. We are supposed to accept that what they tell us is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. How dare we question anything? Off to re-education camp!
“Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Thanks Glen. Pretty sure you know of what you speak.
Gay Pride? Mexican Cartels? China Operatives? Russia, Russia, Russia? Mafia? A lot of questions. Wanna bet he has/had a laptop?
Just think about what the media reaction would have been, if this incident happened at the home of a prominent Republican.
Wouldn’t the media be asking all of the questions that we are asking? Instead, the media seem to be parroting the talking point, that this attack is politically motivated because of Republican rhetoric.
The media have really fallen in line, and are not doing any sort of “investigative” journalism on this one.
And given her position, when will Nancy have a press conference and discuss this matter? She seems to be very quiet publicly about this.
Which is how January 6th, the Biden laptop, Covid insanity, Seth Rich, and endless other state run enterprises are forced on us. This is dangerous.
Underlying all the bias in news these days is the idea that anything that hurts the left automatically helps the right. And no journalist is willing to bear the criticism that one of their stories has helped the right.
And then, we see the likes of Hillary Clinton trotted out, to say this is because of evil violent Republican rhetoric, and we must vote Democrat to save democracy, yadda yadda yadda.
The US media is imitating exactly the media in Communist countries, like China, where the Party line is parroted ad nauseum.
It’s about access not the truth. A “journalist” cannot lose their access or they lose their job. Telling the truth is very dangerous these days.
Then they aren’t real journalist and you work for the propagandists. If you are afraid you’ll lose your job if you don’t lie or won’t ask the hard questions, then you should just admit you’re cowards. Whatever happened to the press? It use to be a whole lost better when reporters and news sources did the leg work and was truthful with their reporting.
Our media just don’t ask the hard questions, at least of Democrats, anymore.
If they are afraid of losing their job they should realize they are propagandists, not really journalists.
There is evidence that many media members are liberal in their own personal politics, so that may make them content with their status as propagandists pushing the Democrat party line in their work.
There are too many blaring contradictions in this story that I don’t think it can be covered up for long. Once the dam breaks then the MSM MUST cover it or else. I still think this guy will have a “crisis” and never be allowed to show up in court because he is dead or so mentally ill that he must be contained. Watch to seee how it plays out.
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