WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD WHERE GLENN GREENWALD IS THE VOICE OF TRADITIONAL JOURNALISTIC STANDARDS: Journalism’s New Propaganda Tool: Using “Confirmed” to Mean its Opposite: Outlets claiming to have “confirmed” Jeffrey Goldberg’s story about Trump’s troops comments are again abusing that vital term. “In other words, all that likely happened is that the same sources who claimed to Jeffrey Goldberg, with no evidence, that Trump said this went to other outlets and repeated the same claims — the same tactic that enabled MSNBC and CBS to claim they had ‘confirmed’ the fundamentally false CNN story about Trump Jr. receiving advanced access to the WikiLeaks archive.”
