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To justify her own show’s failure to cover the story, 60 Minutes’ Leslie Stahl resorted to an entirely different justification. “It can’t be verified,” the CBS reporter claimed when confronted by President Trump in an interview about her program’s failure to cover the Hunter Biden documents. When Trump insisted there were multiple ways to verify the materials on the laptop, Stahl simply repeated the same phrase: “it can’t be verified.”

After the final presidential debate on Thursday night, a CNN panel mocked the story as too complex and obscure for anyone to follow -- a self-fulfilling prophecy given that, as the network's media reporter Brian Stelter noted with pride, the story has barely been mentioned either on CNN or MSNBC. As the New York Times noted on Friday: "most viewers of CNN and MSNBC would not have heard much about the unconfirmed Hunter Biden emails.... CNN’s mentions of “Hunter” peaked at 20 seconds and MSNBC’s at 24 seconds one day last week."

On Sunday, CNN's Christiane Amanpour barely pretended to be interested in any journalism surrounding the story, scoffing during an interview at requests from the RNC's Elizabeth Harrington to cover the story and verify the documents by telling her: "We're not going to do your work for you." Watch how the U.S.'s most mainstream journalists are openly announcing their refusal to even consider what these documents might reflect about the Democratic front-runner:


These journalists are desperate not to know. As Taibbi wrote on Sunday about this tawdry press spectacle: " The least curious people in the country right now appear to be the credentialed news media, a situation normally unique to tinpot authoritarian societies."

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'The very outlet that I co-created ... tried to intervene to censor me six days before an election,' Greenwald tells 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'

Glenn Greenwald opened to "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Thursday about his decision to walk away from The Intercept -- the media outlet he co-founded -- and blamed liberal editors who "vehemently and enthusiastically support" Joe Biden for censoring an article critical of the Democratic presidential nominee.

Greenwald announced his decision in a scathing blog post that claimed his now-former employer has become “completely unrecognizable" because it no longer offers a venue for airing dissent, marginalized voices and unheard perspectives.

"The reason it was created was to ensure that journalists would always have complete journalistic independence and editorial freedom, never have to pull punches journalistically or pay homage to pieties because of the ideological preferences of editors or of anyone else," Greenwald told host Tucker Carlson.

That is what makes it so amazing, that the very outlet that I co-created -- that was built on my reputation, my credibility, my journalistic accomplishment -- then tried to intervene to censor me six days before an election because I wanted to publish reporting and analysis about the evidence that raises serious questions about the conduct of the candidate that all of the editors at that outlet vehemently and enthusiastically support."

Greenwald explained that the censored article was “based on recently revealed emails and witness testimony [and] raised critical questions about Biden’s conduct,” a topic that has been largely ignored or dismissed among mainstream media outlets. Greenwald said he is "embarrassed and angered" that his outlet fell for the now-debunked claim that the allegations were a product of Russian disinformation.

"The only article I published about all of these documents that have emerged about Joe Biden, other than a column of mine where I denounced Facebook and Twitter for censoring it," he said, "was an article that made reference in passing to those documents very snidely and dismissively to say that no one should pay attention to it because it was Russian disinformation and it cited a letter from John Brennan, James Clapper ... the rest of the goons from the CIA and intelligence community asserting it."

The Intercept, among other things, was created to question the assertions of intelligence agencies, who Greenwald accused of "disseminating propaganda in a very powerful way."

"That letter [signed by Brennan and Clapper] said we have no evidence that Russia is involved in any of this," he explained, but "The Intercept omitted that phrase, simply cited that letter to try to encourage people to ignore this evidence on the grounds that Russia had manufactured it and that the evidence was fabricated, even though there has never been any evidence that that has been true and everything since has disproven it."

Greenwald warned that the CIA, and other intelligence agencies have banded together with mainstream media outlets in support of the Democratic Party, "which is likely to at least take over one branch of government if not all of them in the coming election -- and that's a very alarming proposition.

"They are authoritarian, they believe in censorship, and they believe in suppression of information that exposes them in any kind of a critical light."

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Originally posted by roustabout:
So Greenwald finally wakes up to the fact that the MSM is deep into the tank for Biden and the DNC. Better late than never, I suppose. He was only 7 years old when Nixon was driven out of office by the MSM, Democrats and RINOs, so he probably doesn’t understand how long the media has been infested by generations of extreme left wingers.

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Originally posted by asonie:
Can’t be verified??? Since when was that the standard by which something met the criteria for front page news in the legacy media?

Rhetorical question.

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Originally posted by Boss1:
In a couple months, unless he gets another way to spread his message, he'll probably be forgotten...

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Originally posted by 83v45magna:
The hubris of Stahl is disgusting. She oozes contempt while lying her ass off and hurls the '60 minutes' title as if it still garners respect. She acts like she's holding up a cross in front of a vampire.
As if to say 'These petty shenanigans may play in the sticks, but this is 60 Minutes!'

She'll smoke a turd in hell for this.