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Thursday 17 September 2009

But Time isn’t allowed to critique right-wing claims even when they’re totally false.  Doing that would make Rush Limbaugh and Fox News angry.  So rather than pointing out what actually happened — that right-wing claims about march attendance were false and debunked by news organizations — they have to pretend that this is, as always, nothing more than an irreconcilable dispute about reality between the Right and the Left, and it’s not up to Time to tell their readers what the truth is, because that’s not their role, since they’re objective and unbiased.  According to the rules of establishment journalism, there is no truth and no facts — only competing, irreconcilable claims from “the Right and the Left,” and their only job is to mindlessly repeat those claims. Glenn Greenwald

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