New Yorker's Steve Coll: Free Speech 'Is Being Weaponized' Against Journalism
Newsbusters ^ | December 9, 2020 | P.J. Gladnick
Posted on 12/9/2020, 3:36:20 PM by PJ-Comix
Imagine being a supposed journalist that views free speech as a threat to the mainstream media groupthink. You don't have to imagine hard because we now have the example of Steve Coll of the New Yorker magazine who unashamedly proclaims that free speech is a threat to what he perceives as journalism, namely the liberal narrative that he wants to see maintaining a monopoly on public information.
Coll isn't just a magazine writer -- he's the dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, and a former managing editor of The Washington Post. And yet, he still presented free speech as a "weaponized" threat to the liberal media elite on Monday's Morning Joe show during an interview with Kasie Hunt.
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