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With Matt Taibbi’s Twitter Files and Jeff Gerth’s new in-depth reporting for CJR exposing the years of lies spread by Russiagaters, bitter attacks from outed journalists are rolling in.
Gerth and Taibbi, who come from the old style of journalism where you fact check your work and don’t accept government officials’ claims on faith, have each shown clear, indisputable evidence of disinformation campaigns pushed by corporate reporters. And since the so-called journalists can’t argue the facts, they dig themselves a deeper hole with more lies and name-calling.
Jeff Gerth has been working as a reporter for decades and published, in the very mainstream Columbia Journalism Review, a 20,000-word report on his findings, only to be called a liar and misdirecting magician in the most self-important article by Mother Jones’ David Corn (“The true media failure is that Trump got away with it and that articles like this one that you are now reading are still necessary.”) And possibly worse than that is the near complete silence from the rest of mainstream media who, as Gerth reported, refused to follow Bob Woodward’s pleas for introspection.
They’re not silent, however, about Matt Taibbi. These corporate stenographers, either angry that Taibbi called them out for lying or jealous that they didn’t get the Twitter Files story themselves, haven’t made any substantive arguments against his findings both because they can’t, but also because they know they don’t need to. Their audiences are trained to believe them.
Watch the extended episode to hear Taibbi’s response, plus Matt unveils never-before-shared info on the Twitter Files. It’s a Useful Idiots exclusive.
,1,See Lev Golinkin's analysis of Nina: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-ukrainian-journalist?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Nina Jankowicz was chosen to head Biden's Disinformation Governance Board, only to be fired after being exposed for spreading disinformation about Russia, Hunter Biden, and Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
And now she blames everyone else.
Our guest, Ukrainian journalist Lev Golinkin, shares his thoughts of Nina and her Ministry of Truth in the extended episode.
Filmmaker Oliver Stone explains how the CIA and FBI have cracked down on criticism, making it nearly impossible to make a film that doesn't support the US military industrial complex. When even a big-budget director like Oliver Stone is pushed out of the mainstream, who will be left to make important, truthful movies?
