Not long ago Cory was loudly complaining that a Conservative MP “spins, lies, and slanders in Parliament,” saying that there is “no intellectually honest way to say that hiring a freelancer to write about a story they know is the same as paying a source for documents” (even though Greenwald is basically the only source for Snowden’s documents). And yet here we have him saying that the deputy PM “warned” reporters that he would “release CCTV footage” of the reporters in the bathroom, even though the deputy PM only said that footage of someone—and not necessarily or impliedly reporters—exists, and it’s a stretch to say he even implied that he would release this footage. So I guess this would be Cory spinning, lying, and slandering on a blog (and remember that Cory seems to believe that blog writers should be treated the same as journalists, in which case we seem to have firmly entered Daily Mail territory), whereas those speaking in Parliament are protected from libel claims.
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