Too Busy Writing New Baseless News Stories. We Don’t Have Time to Retract the Old Ones

Glenn Greenwald’s recent Tweet opens up a Who’s Who of irresponsible “news” media,” left wing media this time:

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These many news outlets are too busy slurping up new stories from American spies to clean up the old ones. The technique is called “bomb holing.” I learned of this term from Matt Taibbi recently:

This technique of using the next bombshell story to push the last one down a memory-hole — call it Bombholing

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    Bill Heath April 18, 2021 Reply

    Bombholing has another effect: People who don’t own multi-billion-dollar platforms can’t keep pace with the constant barrage. By the time I finish a careful and meticulous refutation of the latest brazen lie, there are three more to deal with from the same source. There is more than one way to drive opposition from the public square.

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    Erich Vieth November 7, 2021 Reply

    Related, Glenn Greenwald’s collection of “Beyond BuzzFeed: The 10 Worst, Most Embarrassing U.S. Media Failures on the Trump-Russia Story: The most challenging task is choosing the 10 worst embarrassments. The most notable aspect is that they all go toward promoting the same narrative.”

    Following are the top ten worst media failures in two-plus-years of Trump/Russia reporting. They are listed in reverse order, as measured by the magnitude of the embarrassment, the hysteria they generated on social media and cable news, the level of journalistic recklessness that produced them, and the amount of damage and danger they caused. This list was extremely difficult to compile in part because news outlets (particularly CNN and MSNBC) often delete from the internet the video segments of their most embarrassing moments. Even more challenging was the fact that the number of worthy nominees is so large that highly meritorious entrees had to be excluded, but are acknowledged at the end with (dis)honorable mention status.

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