From Glenn Greenwald. This is disgraceful behavior by the Washington Post “Fact-Checker.”
Much of our legacy news media has proudly decided that its role is no longer to let the fact fall where they may, letting readers decide who they will vote for. Rather, the new role is to tell readers who to vote for, consciously and premeditatedly withholding evidence that puts their favorite candidate into a bad light. What’s really amazing is that this disinformation is being shoveled to readers in plain view. It’s as if the WP is simply daring people like Greenwald to call them on their journalistic malpractice (which he repeatedly does). But they don’t care, because they have a bigger megaphone than he does at the moment.
So much of what I see today reminds me of Brandolini’s Law:
Brandolini’s law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage that emphasizes the difficulty of debunking false, facetious, or otherwise misleading information:”The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it.