What @ggreenwald did isn't simply good journalism. It's essential patriotism. But his story's getting attention not because the kind of censorship he speaks of is an exception in mainstream #journalism. It's getting this attention because ... https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1322495338188603392

2) it's about the most important news story of our moment. Otherwise, there's been no shortage of biased reporting in favor of promoting one cause or another. I encountered it in 2003 for the first time, anytime I gave an interview about the violations of human rights in Iran...

3) my comments didn't make the final cut. Finally, when I asked why, a reporter said, "George W. Bush wants to start a war with Iran. We don't want to give him another reason to do so." Never a hesitation to talk about the Saudi violations, but ...

4) always a reluctance to tell the truth about Iran in the interest of "preventing war". Meantime, truth has been dying a painful death. War never came. A brutal regime enters its 42nd year of bloody reign. And America's democracy has never been under a graver threat.

5) In short, this new censorship began with the silencing of smaller, less seemingly relevant news stories, such as Iran, first. When it went uncurbed, it became the beast that it is today. Remember Niemoller?