Interestingly, I think Greenwald’s hesitancy to assume the cause might be partly due to his reporting on the Pulse nightclub shooting. Many still think the motive was homophobia.
You mean to tell me the news media got something wrong and just ran with it? Wild that glenwald thinks highly enough of himself that he is taking credit for that
Who reported that the news madia is dumb and runs with narratives they like over accurate ones?
everyone.
If he didn’t report it wrong, some yellow prose sniffing journalist would have just made up the narratice and they would have run it anyway
There’s a good Citations Needed Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill episode about this.