Activist CNN Reporter Rescues Syrian Prisoner: Is It Propaganda?

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In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald examines a recent CNN report from Syria, raising questions about its authenticity and emotional framing. He highlights journalist Clarissa Ward’s prior admission of crossing ethical boundaries regarding neutrality in Syria and contextualizes this within a broader pattern of media narratives that have historically supported U.S. foreign policy goals through exaggerated or misleading stories.

This video was produced by System Update and published on their YouTube channel on the 13th of December, 2024.

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ABOUT GLENN GREENWALD

Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021).  Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020.