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My Resignation from the Intercept

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Re: My Resignation from the Intercept

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Post by drchopchop »

DevKoala wrote: post #5

We are witnessing the biggest concerted censorship effort in the history of the USA. One for the history books, depending on who gets to write it in the future. Regardless of whether or not you believe on Tony Bubolinsky, you should at the very least have the opportunity to hear him and make up your own mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zLfBRgeFFo

"Censorship"? Fox News has been pushing it non-stop, every night, on 3+ hours of evening programming. Just because every media outlet in the world isn't pushing this (highly questionable) story doesn't mean it's being "censored". You are even free to post about it on Hacker News.

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Post by uzakov »

gkoberger wrote: post #14
kev009 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Setting boundaries on what one will and wont do isn't victimhood. He doesn't owe the world his output under any terms but his own.

I’m not talking about this specific situation; I’m talking about his career the past 5 years.

Can you please provide examples?

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Post by Raidion »

dkdk8283 wrote: post #7
gkoberger wrote: post #3

Greenwald has really fascinated me the past decade. He was on track to being one of the most prolific reporters on the planet, and he has gone really down this weird victimhood "censorship" path. Sometimes it’s legitimate censorship. Other times, your editor is just insisting you don’t spread misinformation.

Exerpt: > refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden

Without knowing what's in there, it's really hard to make a call on that information alone.

This could be anything from "Hey, the source for this information is notoriously unreliable and doesn't meet our standards" to "He can't publish this because then Trump might win and that's not worth the cost". One is a very valid reason to refuse to publish something, for the other, the ends don't justify the means and he's right to be upset.

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Post by jtdev »

gkoberger wrote: post #3

Greenwald has really fascinated me the past decade. He was on track to being one of the most prolific reporters on the planet, and he has gone really down this weird victimhood "censorship" path. Sometimes it’s legitimate censorship. Other times, your editor is just insisting you don’t spread misinformation.

What leads you to believe that he was trying to spread misinformation? The suppression of criticism leveled against Joe Biden or any other individual in public service is a grave danger to democracy. I commend Mr. Greenwald for standing up to censorship.

Re: My Resignation from the Intercept

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Post by blhack »

Glenn had a 3 hour long conversation on a podcast a few days ago where he laid out the problem really well:

Journalists have essentially become socialites. They don't want to publish articles that will rock the boat, because the people they are friends with are the ones that own that boat, invite them to parties, and are a part of their friend groups.

The reporting around this story has been absolutely unbelievable to me. This story seems like the type of thing that would normally make peoples' entire journalistic career, and yet the journalists, the people who are supposed to be a part of our protection and sense-making system are actively trying to suppress it.

It's actually surreal to see this happening.

Re: My Resignation from the Intercept

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Post by dragontamer »

DevKoala wrote: post #5

We are witnessing the biggest concerted censorship effort in the history of the USA. One for the history books, depending on who gets to write it in the future. Regardless of whether or not you believe on Tony Bubolinsky, you should at the very least have the opportunity to hear him and make up your own mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zLfBRgeFFo

> We are witnessing the biggest concerted censorship effort in the history of the USA.

Bigger than the Office of Censorship, deployed during WW2 to help propaganda efforts? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Censorship)

I seriously doubt that. The Office of Censorship was regularly opening private mail from USPS and purposefully destroying private mail that was unsavory to the war effort.

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Historically, the practice of postal censorship extended back to the Civil War: with both Confederates and Union governments censoring the mail within their control.

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