Glenn Greenwald blasts liberal media for 'deceitful playbook' of 'corroborating' false stories

Journalist Glenn Greenwald criticized the 'deceitful playbook' of media outlets confirming one another's anonymously-sourced stories after a single-sourced Washington Post story had to be massively corrected for wrongly quoting former President Donald Trump.

"With liberal media outlets deliberately embracing a profit model of speaking overwhelmingly to partisan Democrats who use them as their primary source of news, there is zero cost to publishing false claims about people and groups hated by that liberal audience," he wrote. In its Jan. 9 report, the Post originally quoted Trump telling a Georgia elections investigator to "find the fraud" in the state, telling her she would be a "national hero." However, a newly surfaced audio tape revealed Trump did not use those words, leading to a 130-word correction affixed to the top of its original article.