Joe Biden of the day
Joe Biden of the day
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Glenn Greenwald (of Snowden leak, and Brazil Archive fame), leaves The Intercept over censorship of his article critical of Biden and the media's soft touch on corruption allegations.
He's unpublished the article here:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p…and some of the back and forth with editors here:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p…a choice quote from that email exchange
"...the glaring irony that I'm being censored for the first time in my career -- and that it's being done by the news outlet that I created with the specific and explicit purpose of ensuring that journalists are never censored by their editors -- is disturbing to me in the extreme."- I was a big fan of Glenn Greenwald in the past but honestly I think he's lost the plot. While there may be some legitimate criticism of the media's handling ofyuekit
- this story, he's shown himself to be incredibly biased as well.yuekit
- This responses he got here pretty much sums it up
https://twitter.com/…yuekit - I think his bias is clearly against the CIA being so openly connected within the media. That journalism is dead in the MSM, and...monNom
- that Biden was there while Snowden was persecuted for whistleblowing. Now maybe that favours Trump, but only because Biden is a very shitty candidate.monNom
- Greenwald is a lefty. But I think most of all he is anti-corruption. (look at his reporting).monNom
- Yeah I supported his work with Snowden, as well as the Wikileaks releases. All of that was damaging to the Obama/Biden administration but important to publish.yuekit
- But more recently it really does seem like he has an agenda. He seems to be trying to smear Biden and help Trump get reelected.yuekit
- I mean Trump is corrupt as hell so why is he not directing some criticism there? Instead he's obsessed with the Hunter Biden story and angry that the mediayuekit
- is not plastering it across the front page like with Hillary's emails. He also criticizes the media for being "biased" but then goes on Fox News haha cmonyuekit
- He’s not trying to get trump elected. He’s just trying to tell the truth, which is what journalists do.Gnash
- If that fucks Biden, then that’s Biden’s fault. It it fucks trump, it’s trumps fault,Gnash
- People should have access to the info. not have some mooks decide what they feel is best for us to read, or notGnash
- Being a ‘fan’ of a journalist as long as they say they the things you agree with is easy. No thinking requiredGnash
- I agree with that, but I also think you can't just ignore what happened in 2016. Someone...most people believe it was the Russian state...hacks the email ofyuekit
- someone close to Trump's opponent and leaks the info out in a way that creates a stream of negative news stories weeks before the election.yuekit
- Then in 2020...the same thing happens?? If you're not asking questions about how or why this happened, that seems very strange.yuekit
- Doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be published. Even Greenwald suggested that intercept publish analysis articles to accompanyGnash
- If anything, Not publishing the article exposes a biasGnash
- Publish what though? I think only the New York Post has the supposed Hunter Biden laptop.yuekit
- This is a very trashy tabloid paper and even their reporters had reservations about going with the story.yuekit
- Journalists at other papers don't have access to the material, they can't verify if it's real or not.yuekit
- Um.... Publish the article this post was aboutGnash
- I don't think the emails he posted support what he's trying to claim, that they refused to publish his article. They were asking him to rewrite someyuekit
- parts of it that were misleading and add some balance. That's the job of an editor, the writer doesn't have unilateral power to publish whatever they want.yuekit
- He then cries censorship and quits, which he probably wanted to do anyway. Now he can attack Biden without any fact checking or editorial oversight.yuekit