Glenn Greenwald speaking to HuffPost live.
During an appearance on HuffPost Live Monday afternoon, Greenwald called reporting by The New York Times and CNN “even more disgraceful than usual,” adding, “It’s really absolutely shameful how they’ve behaved when it comes to reporting on this story.”
“What it shows is that so many U.S. media outlets, and so many journalists and editors in these outlets, have as their predominant attribute when they do journalism not truth-telling, not objectivity, as they claim, but jingoism, this kind of uber-nationalism, this allegiance to their own government. Either in part because that’s just how they see the world, or in part because they don’t want to alienate the sources they rely [on] inside the government to feed them information,” he said. “But whatever the reason, the reporting from The New York Times has been so atrocious that if you’re a New York Times reader relying exclusively on that paper, you would literally have no idea that the United States is actually the country that perpetrated this attack.”
The United States can't evade responsibility for deadly airstrikes on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan simply because Afghan forces asked for them, the medical charity's president told NBC News on Monday.
Army Gen. John Campbell, the top commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, on Monday "corrected" initial statements by the coalition claiming that U.S. forces were under direct fire when the United States launched airstrikes on the hospital in Kunduz last week. He said it instead was Afghan forces who were under attack, not U.S. forces, and he promised a full investigation.
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