{"id":238354,"date":"2021-03-17T13:15:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T17:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=238354"},"modified":"2021-03-17T13:15:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T17:15:21","slug":"glenn-greenwald-explains-how-multiple-media-outlets-can-independently-confirm-false-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/glenn-greenwald-explains-how-multiple-media-outlets-can-independently-confirm-false-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Greenwald Explains How Multiple Media Outlets Can \u2018Independently Confirm\u2019 False Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fglenn-greenwald-explains-how-multiple-media-outlets-can-independently-confirm-false-information%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=238354&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1561.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Journalist Glenn Greenwald used his Substack <a href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/p\/how-do-big-media-outlets-so-often\">column<\/a> to call out media outlets parroting false information by claiming they \u201cindependently confirmed\u201d it.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent example of such false confirmation is the story surrounding former President Donald Trump\u2019s phone call with a Georgia election investigator. Multiple media outlets, parroting The Washington Post, claimed that Trump told Frances Watson, chief investigator of the Georgia Secretary of State\u2019s office, to \u201cfind the fraud\u201d in order to show that he actually won the state and not President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The original story from the Post was published on January 9, citing an anonymous source that allegedly knew about the phone call between Trump and Watson. The paper presented comments from the source as actual quotes from Trump. Shortly after the Post published its story, CNN claimed it independently confirmed the quotes from Trump, using \u201ca source with knowledge of the call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But as The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/news-outlets-issue-major-corrections-after-botching-reports-on-december-phone-call-between-trump-ga-election-investigator\">reported<\/a> earlier this week, both outlets issued corrections to their stories because audio of the phone call showed Trump never said \u201cfind the fraud\u201d or insisting she would be a \u201cnational hero\u201d if she did so. The phone call actually went something like this, The Daily Wire reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"29\">\n<p><em>\u201cI won everything but Georgia, and I won Georgia, I know that, by a lot, and the people know it, and something happened there, something bad happened,\u201d Trump said on the call. \u201cI hope you go back two years as opposed to just checking one against the other because that would just be sort of a signature check that doesn\u2019t mean anything. But if you go back two years, and if you can get to [Fulton County], you are going to find things that are unbelievable. The dishonesty.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Watson answered: \u201cI can assure you that our team and the [Georgia Bureau of Investigation], that we are only interested in the truth and finding the information that is based on the facts. We\u2019ve been working 12-16 hour days and, you know, we\u2019re working through it. So I can assure you that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Toward the end of the call, Trump told Watson that \u201cwhen the right answer comes out, you\u2019ll be praised.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, how did CNN \u201cindependently confirm\u201d a false story? Greenwald explained:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><em>The reason this matters is because the term \u201cindependently confirm\u201d significantly bolsters the credibility of the initial report because it makes it appear that other credible-to-some news organizations have conducted their own investigation and found more evidence that proves it is true. That is the purpose of the exercise: to bolster the credibility of the story in the minds of the public.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But what actually happens is as deceitful as it is obvious. When a news outlet such as&nbsp;NBC News&nbsp;claims to have \u201cindependently corroborated\u201d a report from another corporate outlet, they often do not mean that they searched for and acquired corroborating evidence for it. What they mean is much more tawdry: they called, or were called by, the same anonymous sources that fed&nbsp;CNN&nbsp;the false story in the first place, and were fed the same false story.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A famous example of this was the story from CNN in 2017 purporting to show that someone from Wikileaks provided Donald Trump, Jr. with advanced access to hacked emails. CNN claimed the email confirming this information was obtained by \u201ccongressional investigators\u201d and \u201cmultiple sources.\u201d After CNN published its report, other outlets, including MSNBC and CBS News, claimed they had \u201cindependently confirmed\u201d the information reported by CNN. In reality, as Greenwald explained, they simply spoke to the same sources that fed CNN in the false information. The email sent to Trump, Jr. was actually dated <em>after<\/em> Wikileaks published the information, not before, as multiple media outlets claimed.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Glenn Greenwald used his Substack column to call out media outlets parroting false information by claiming they \u201cindependently confirmed\u201d it.The most recent example of such false confirmation is the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310668,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1561.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Glenn Greenwald Explains How Multiple Media Outlets Can \u2018Independently Confirm\u2019 False Information","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1561.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Glenn Greenwald Explains How Multiple Media Outlets Can \u2018Independently Confirm\u2019 False Information","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}