Thursday, October 29, 2020

The media's rank-closing attempt, in a deeply unholy union with Silicone Valley and the "intelligence community..."

In Substack, Glenn Greenwald tells us about his decision to leave the Intercept, a publication he co-founded with three other journalists seven years ago.
But the brute censorship this week of my article — about the Hunter Biden materials and Joe Biden’s conduct regarding Ukraine and China, as well my critique of the media’s rank-closing attempt, in a deeply unholy union with Silicon Valley and the “intelligence community,” to suppress its revelations — eroded the last justification I could cling to for staying. It meant that not only does this media outlet not provide the editorial freedom to other journalists, as I had so hopefully envisioned seven years ago, but now no longer even provides it to me. In the days heading into a presidential election, I am somehow silenced from expressing any views that random editors in New York find disagreeable, and now somehow have to conform my writing and reporting to cater to their partisan desires and eagerness to elect specific candidates.
Read it all here.

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