Wow, what a shock: Max Blumenthal’s “news outlet” has been spreading the Islamic Republic of Iran’s propaganda, and is on its payroll to do so. Knock me over with a feather! Who could possibly have foreseen that pro-jihad leftist ideologues are just in it for the payday?
“News site editor’s ties to Iran, Russia show misinformation’s complexity,” by Joseph Menn, Washington Post, June 2, 2024:
…Hacked emails and other documents from the Iranian government-funded Press TV show payments of thousands of dollars to a writer who is now a Washington-based editor for Grayzone, whose founder regularly appears on Russian television and once accepted a trip to Moscow for a celebration of Russian state-controlled video network RT that featured Vladimir Putin….
The files appear to show that the Iranian broadcaster paid a Washington-based reporter for occasional contributions to its programming in 2020 and 2021 while he was working as a correspondent for Russia’s Sputnik news outlet.
That reporter, Wyatt Reed, had nine bylines in the online publication Grayzone in 2019 and 2020, followed by a gap of 2½ years. He has had 24 more Grayzone bylines since mid-2023, when he was identified as managing editor.
Grayzone posts content on the web, X and YouTube and has been highly critical of Iran’s regional enemy Israel and its supporters in the United States. Reed did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Grayzone top editor Max Blumenthal did not answer emails seeking comment….
One such story devoted thousands of words to allege widespread Israeli attacks against its own citizens on Oct. 7 while saying that Hamas treated hostages well and used “clever” tactics. That article by Blumenthal distorted the material from sources it cited, Israelis complained, conflating separate incidents to make it seem that troops repeatedly fired indiscriminately at Israelis near Hamas targets.
Blumenthal previously contributed articles to the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. He is the son of Sidney Blumenthal, a journalist who became an adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton. Maté previously worked at Al Jazeera….
libertyORdeath says
This has become shockingly common since October 7th. Everyone is so obsessed with Israeli and Jewish funding that they forget that thanks to Biden and Obama, there are DOZENS of Islamist countries (including Iran, Qatar, “Palestine,” and Saudi Arabia) that are using the ill-gotten gains from Sanctions relief and backroom deals with China to fund jihad and propaganda in the West.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
All those people who gave Trump the third degree about wanting to mend ties w/ Russia should now go after Max Blumenthal, who’s obviously been more supportive of President Putin personally than Trump ever was. I know, they have double standards & all, but given their apparent hatred for all things Russian, maybe this is one about which they should be more intolerant?