Greenwald's follow up posts:
Article in question https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...
Emails with editors https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-edito...
My Resignation from the Intercept
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Re: My Resignation from the Intercept
#462The Intercept responds: https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/1321896097099489283
I m sorry but what record of rigorous independent journalism, outside of glenn's contributions (including the ones about Brazil corruption)?
Re: My Resignation from the Intercept
#463Here is a link to the article (draft) that is discussed in the resignation post, and posted an hour or so later:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...
And here is the content of emails with the editors, discussing the alleged censorship:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-edito...
Re: My Resignation from the Intercept
#464"as a last-ditch attempt to avoid being censored, I encouraged them to air their disagreements with me by writing their own articles that critique my perspectives and letting readers decide who is right" That's not how this works. If the editor concludes that it's a garbage story dropped a few days before the election in an attempt to influence the election, you don't run it and then "let the readers decide who is ri…
>If the editor concludes that it's a garbage story dropped a few days before the election in an attempt to influence the election Nobody disputes why this story was dropped at the time it was dropped. It's a common tactic that has been practiced for decades by political campaigns and even media outlets. Heck, there is a reason why the Kavanaugh story broke when it did. There is a reason why the NY Times published Tru…
Kavanaugh story broke when it did because it leaked
Re: My Resignation from the Intercept
#465the biden article
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...
Re: My Resignation from the Intercept
#466Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's also the kind of story that can break someone's journalistic career. Even Fox News wouldn't run the story because it wasn't supported by facts. And last I heard, there still has been no concrete evidence of wrongdoing. Tucker Carlson claims that his evidence "got lost in the mail". In the age of the internet, they didn't snap any photos of this so-called proof? There is no "there" there. Just a bunch of internet…
Glenn Greenwald is a Pulitzer prize winning journalist. He broke the Snowden story--another sensational-sounding scoop which likely sounded like total bullshit at first. Is it possible that Mr. Greenwald is a better judge of whether or not there is a story here?
It's more likely that Greenwalds colleagues are a better judge
Re: My Resignation from the Intercept
#467"as a last-ditch attempt to avoid being censored, I encouraged them to air their disagreements with me by writing their own articles that critique my perspectives and letting readers decide who is right" That's not how this works. If the editor concludes that it's a garbage story dropped a few days before the election in an attempt to influence the election, you don't run it and then "let the readers decide who is ri…
You're right that it's not how this works. Media organizations are not interested truth or accuracy of their stories, but simply how many ads and subscriptions the stories can sell. And that's not the say they are motivated by greed - even worse, they are often motivated by missionary-like zeal to promote a cause. So of course it would follow that they have no interest in publishing anything disagreeable to their rea…
> Media organizations are not interested truth or accuracy of their stories, but simply how many ads and subscriptions the stories can sell.
Not quite complete. They're also interested in being influential:
https://www.revolver.news/2020/10/free-market-vs-marketplace...
A story about the former VP in various pay-to-play schemes, using his son as a cutout. (Not to mention about his son producing copious amounts of kompromat — including extremely illegal activity — for the CCP) would be great for clicks.
Yet everyone is hiding the story. Why? journalistic integrity? No, try again...
Re: My Resignation from the Intercept
#468Excellent. His more recent delusional ranting really harmed the reputation of The Intercept.
Re: My Resignation from the Intercept
#469If the entire issue boils down to the fact that left-leaning media outlets have finally dropped-down to the same dishonerable level as the right-leaning media outlets, and stooped to supressing anything that doesn't jibe with the world view/propaganda that they respectively push, then what's the problem -- seems like the playing field just got a little more even for everyone.
Re: My Resignation from the Intercept
#470Keep in mind we're just seeing Greenwald's side of this. It sure sounds like he's trying to paint it a way that makes him look good and the Intercept look bad. Lots of claims of "censorship" etc. I want to hear their side of it as well. My guess is that there's a lot more to this story. My guess is if all his peers thought the claims were not solid enough to publish, there is probably a reason for that -- not simply…
Betsy Reed's statement: https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/1321896097099489283 https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-...
There we go. A journalist is supposed to follow the facts wherever they go -- even if it reveals something they're uncomfortable with. They build a reputation by researching and checking their stories, and not running stories unless the facts hold up.
Greenwald made his name with quality investigative journalism. It sounds like he has fallen from this standard by trying to run a story with dubious political talking points and pass it off as factual news. We have a term for people like this: tabloid writers or opinion commentators. This is a sad decline to see.
He's free to do whatever he likes in his own name -- and it sounds like this is the path he has chosen.