{"id":392537,"date":"2021-04-06T12:59:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T16:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=392537"},"modified":"2021-04-06T12:59:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T16:59:03","slug":"its-tragic-glenn-greenwald-laments-destruction-of-media-credibility-pinpoints-trump-years-as-breaking-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-tragic-glenn-greenwald-laments-destruction-of-media-credibility-pinpoints-trump-years-as-breaking-point\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Tragic\u2019: Glenn Greenwald Laments Destruction Of Media Credibility, Pinpoints \u2018Trump Years\u2019 As Breaking Point"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fits-tragic-glenn-greenwald-laments-destruction-of-media-credibility-pinpoints-trump-years-as-breaking-point%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=392537&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\/04\/fb_image-528.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Journalist Glenn Greenwald on Tuesday lamented how historically trustworthy major corporate news outlets have destroyed their own credibility, especially during the years of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been a critic of corporate media outlets for 15 years but always assumed one could get basic facts (even if flawed) by reading them. I now no longer think this,\u201d Greenwald tweeted. \u201cTheir journalistic and business model makes me distrust everything I read there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery major outlet has some good reporters trying (and sometimes succeeding) to do good journalism,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut the ideological and business model of these outlets, developed from the Trump years, makes most of what they publish unreliable. That\u2019s not something to celebrate. It\u2019s tragic.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.522935779817\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Every major outlet has some good reporters trying (and sometimes succeeding) to do good journalism. But the ideological and business model of these outlets, developed from the Trump years, makes most of what they publish unreliable. That&#8217;s not something to celebrate. It&#8217;s tragic.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1379402288217866242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Greenwald\u2019s tweet was in response to a post from New York Post opinion editor Sohrab Ahmari, who claimed that not only does he no longer trust the legacy media, he even assumes what they are reporting is \u201cbullsh*t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve worked in mainstream media for a decade,\u201d Ahmari reflected. \u201cI used to see NYT\/WaPo\/network stories and generally assume they were basically true, even if the outlets made mistakes from time to time (we\u2019re all human). Now I think, \u201cWhat kind of bullsh*t are these ideologues pulling on me now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe old establishment regime was thoroughly liberal, to be clear. It was the air they breathed. But you couldn\u2019t imagine the old regime straight-up fabricating s**t or claiming, as CNN did in a recent news story, that there is no scientific consensus for determining a baby\u2019s sex,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.44\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The old establishment regime was thoroughly liberal, to be clear. It was the air they breathed.<\/p>\n<p>But you couldn&#8217;t imagine the old regime straight-up fabricating shit or claiming, as CNN did in a recent news story, that there is no scientific consensus for determining a baby&#8217;s sex<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SohrabAhmari\/status\/1379262202008502275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ahmari was referencing a recent CNN story that claimed \u201cthere is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-claims-there-is-no-consensus-criteria-for-assigning-sex-at-birth-in-news-article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"32.583941605839\">\n<p><em>CNN reported as fact on Tuesday that the meaning of \u201cbiological sex\u201d is disputed and that \u201cno consensus\u201d exists for knowing a person\u2019s sex at birth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The network published the claims in a news piece on South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gov-kristi-noem-passes-on-south-dakota-womens-sports-bill-issues-executive-orders-instead?%3Futm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=fedup\">ongoing battle<\/a> over legislation that would ban biological males from participating in women\u2019s sports in her state. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/30\/politics\/south-dakota-transgender-sports-kristi-noem\/index.html\">piece<\/a>, titled \u201cSouth Dakota\u2019s governor issues executive orders banning transgender athletes from women\u2019s sports,\u201d was written by breaking news reporter Devon Cole.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cole wrote:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Though the two executive orders signed by Noem do not explicitly mention transgender athletes, they reference the supposed harms of the participation of \u201cmales\u201d in women\u2019s athletics \u2013 an echo of the transphobic claim, cited in other similar legislative initiatives, that transgender women are not women. The orders also reference \u201cbiological sex,\u201d a disputed term that refers to the sex as listed on students\u2019 original birth certificates.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not possible to know a person\u2019s gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth.<\/p>\n<p><em>CNN updated the article on Wednesday after it received blowback online \u201cto provide additional explanation as to the distinctions between gender and sex,\u201d according to an editor\u2019s note. The claim about \u201cno consensus for assigning sex at birth\u201d was removed from the new version of the article, and an explanation for why \u201cbiological sex\u201d is a disputed term was added.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/glenn-greenwald-explains-how-multiple-media-outlets-can-independently-confirm-false-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glenn Greenwald Explains How Multiple Media Outlets Can \u2018Independently Confirm\u2019 False Information<\/a><\/strong><\/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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Glenn Greenwald on Tuesday lamented how historically trustworthy major corporate news outlets have destroyed their own credibility, especially during the years of the Trump administration.\u201cI\u2019ve been a critic of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311726,"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\/04\/fb_image-528.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018It\u2019s Tragic\u2019: Glenn Greenwald Laments Destruction Of Media Credibility, Pinpoints \u2018Trump Years\u2019 As Breaking Point","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-528.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018It\u2019s Tragic\u2019: Glenn Greenwald Laments Destruction Of Media Credibility, Pinpoints \u2018Trump Years\u2019 As Breaking Point","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392537","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=392537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}