Greenwald to BBC: Journalists must investigate the Powerful in Gov’t since they Lie to the People (B

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Greenwald to BBC: Journalists must investigate the Powerful in Gov’t since they Lie to the People (BBC Surprised)
Posted on 11/29/2013 by Juan Cole

Glenn Greenwald on the BBC’s Hardtalk seems to surprise the anchor by asserting that journalists need to investigate the powerful since the latter tend to lie to the people.

This is how the BBC describes the program

“Journalist Glenn Greenwald who reported on the data leaked by US whistleblower Edward Snowden has told HARDtalk it is the job of journalists to investigate the claims of people in power.

Mr Greenwald said the Iraq war was as an example of how the US and UK governments had made “false claims” to gain support for the war.

“People in power, specifically national security officials will routinely lie to their population,” he added.

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1. And under the subject of lies

should be campaign promises due to which get some elected. All politicians should agree to resign if they break any such promises.

[bemildred]

2. Quite. You don't like all the "conspiracy theories" stop lying to the public. nt