The New York Times reviews here some of the claims about Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and the Chinese company CEFC ("There is no evidence that the former vice president was involved in or profited from a joint venture pursued by his son and brother.")
everybody has an opinion on what qualifies as evidence
i expect baba looey will feel the wrath of the 7th ring of hell for whistle blowing
what else is new
i'm with this guy
in the immortal words of carl sagan. if we don't know, let's look
I lost track of Greenwald since he stopped writing for The Guardian. Apparently he's appeared frequently on Tucker Carlson's show. Talk about strange bedfellows.
Greenwald's draft piece that The Intercept refused to publish can be found here.
The New York Times reviews here some of the claims about Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and the Chinese company CEFC ("There is no evidence that the former vice president was involved in or profited from a joint venture pursued by his son and brother.")
WaPo's take on the split between Greenwald and The Intercept:
While the crusading journalist claimed censorship, his former editors accused him of trying to publish unsupported innuendo
Iconoclastic journalist Glenn Greenwald resigned from The Intercept on Thursday afternoon, signaling an abrupt and acrimonious end to his time at the publication he co-founded in 2014 with journalists Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras.
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In a lengthy note published on Substack, Greenwald said the publication refused to publish the piece, âin violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom,â unless he removed âall sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression.â
The Intercept strongly countered those claims, with Editor in Chief Betsy Reed telling The Washington Post in an email that âit is absolutely not true that Glenn Greenwald was asked to remove all sections critical of Joe Biden from his article. He was asked to support his claims and innuendo about corrupt actions by Joe Biden with evidence.â
The Intercept, which is published by nonprofit First Look Media, called it âa preposterous charge that The Interceptâs editors and reporters, with the lone noble exception of Glenn Greenwald, have betrayed our mission to engage in fearless investigative journalism because we have been seduced by the lure of a Joe Biden presidency.â
âA brief glance at the stories The Intercept has published on Joe Biden will suffice to refute those claims,â the statement continued.
Greenwald said that when the editors refused to let him publish the article elsewhere, he proposed that they âair their disagreements with me by writing their own articles that critique my perspectives and letting readers decide who is right, the way any confident and healthy media outlet would,â he wrote. âBut modern media outlets do not air dissent; they quash it. So censorship of my article, rather than engagement with it, was the path these Biden-supporting editors chose.â
He made numerous other claims in his lengthy departure note, which the Intercept said it would address in time. âFor now, it is important to make clear that our goal in editing his work was to ensure that it would be accurate and fair,â the statement reads. âWhile he accuses us of political bias, it was he who was attempting to recycle a political campaignâs â the Trump campaignâs â dubious claims and launder them as journalism.â
Greenwald has emerged in recent years as a harsh critic of the mainstream media, and has become a regular guest on the Fox News Channel, especially on Tucker Carlsonâs nightly show. In particular, Greenwald accused media companies of boarding the âRussiagate trainâ by hyping up stories about collaboration between the Trump campaign and Russian government actors.
Greenwald said he would publish the Biden piece on his own Substack online platform later on Thursday, and would plan to continue publishing on the channel. He also said he had been âexploring the possibility of creating a new media outletâ for months.
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The Intercept said it had no doubt that Greenwald would âlaunch a new media venture where he will face no collaboration with editors â such is the era of Substack and Patreon.â
The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.
Gatekeepers are also what is wrong with HMO's. The least qualified individual is making life and death decisions about who gets to advance to more specialized care and treatments.
The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.
The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.
The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.
or someone reposting news article headlines like none of us are capable of reading the news on our own..
Sorry for this reminder. Perhaps, it wasn't meant for you personally then. How should an outlander like me know of the exaltedness-scale of co-members of this forum? (Excuse me, pls.) The divisiveness seems to gain foot though, as US media are spreading it. What a horrible situation. Blues shooting Reds, and vice versa. I hope, that US disease of killing one another as hyped by the media doesn't take over the whole planet, honestly. On top of that, I found the quote so befitting to this thread.... and I guess not many people remember the early days of the inNernet as they were. Peace!
...... or someone reposting news article headlines like none of us are capable of reading the news on our own..
Sometimes I do not have time to review all possibly relevant news of interest. Sometimes I focus on just narrow areas of daily news.
So I am appreciative when folks post relevant news articles of possible interest. Otherwise, I would have missed a few interesting stories. Long live RP!
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