New Yorker's Steve Coll: Free Speech 'Is Being Weaponized' Against Journalism

Newsbusters ^ | December 9, 2020 | P.J. Gladnick

[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.

[PJ-Comix]

This is the mindset of most of the mainstream media nowadays.They see "free speech" as something to be feared.

[DoughtyOne]

They used free speech against us.

Now we’re using the same weapon.

Seems reasoned to me.

[polymuser]

Columbia University — The cultural Marxists’ HQ since 1950, when infiltrated by Frankfurt School ops.

[Stosh]

Gotta look long and hard to find any journalism these days. Lotsa propaganda and virtue signaling, but journalism - not so much.

[glasseye]

“Freedom for us is a prison for the rulers of minds...”

[escapefromboston]

Id rather weaponize actual weapons

[GenXteacher]

Free speech is a threat to the vile propaganda he and his I’ll trowel out.

[hanamizu]

They used free speech against us.
Now we’re using the same weapon.

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Well, we may try, but free speech is being actively and proudly censored on social media sites. YouTube is now banning anything that casts doubt on the election of the self-styled “President-Elect”.

[KC_Conspirator]

Its people like this that take us down the slippery slope to gas chambers.

[DoughtyOne]

You can’t attack journalism if is doesn’t exist.

It hasn’t in this nation since 1990.

We’ve had varied amounts from time to time, but today there
is almost no professional journalism taking place at the
major media centers.

[Mr. K]

Freedom of speech applies only to what they agree with, apparently

[calljack]

Thats OK
Journalism was weaponized against us.

[HKMk23]

“Free Speech ‘Is Being Weaponized’ Against Journalism”

Yes, free speakers are trying to re-inject some of it back into the profession.

[cgbg]

“Journalism” takes the full list of logical fallacies, crams all of them into a “news” story, and then congratulates themselves on their “professionalism”.

[Still Thinking]

Weapons for me but not for thee, apparently, in their ‘minds’.

[DoughtyOne]

I know. These Leftist organizations have to be dealt with.

[DoughtyOne]

Agreed... Seems that’s their mindset.

[Gene Eric]

That’s kinda the point of our Constitutional Free Speech, jackass

[amnestynone]

Journalism is being weaponized against free speech.

[Vaquero]

Free Speech for us. Not for you.