Posted on 02/08/2021 12:32:44 PM PST by sevinufnine
"A new and rapidly growing journalistic 'beat' has arisen over the last several years that can best be described as an unholy mix of junior high hall-monitor tattling and Stasi-like citizen surveillance They have insufficient talent or skill, and even less desire, to take on real power centers...so settle on this penny-ante, trivial bulls*** — tattling, hall monitoring, speech policing.' Greenwald announced his resignation from The Intercept, the site he co-founded, in October claiming editors censored an article he wrote criticizing Joe Biden. He added, "These examples of journalism being abused to demand censorship of spaces they cannot control are too numerous to comprehensively chronicle." He also shared thoughts on what he calls authoritarian reporting referring to the 'little crew of tattletale millennials' at NBC and their 'twerpy work' as scrolling through 4Chan boards. He called out the NY Times who quickly donned their hall-monitor goggles and Stasi notebooks to warn that the 'bad people' had migrated to Signal and Telegram in the wake of Parler's removal from the Internet.
Greenwald says this leaves the US with an unimaginably warped dynamic in which U.S. journalists are not the defenders of free speech values but the primary crusaders to destroy them. He adds, "They do it in part for power: to ensure nobody but they can control the flow of information. They do it partly for ideology and out of hubris: the belief that their worldview is so indisputably right that all dissent is inherently dangerous 'disinformation', and they do it from petty vindictiveness: they clearly get aroused — find otherwise-elusive purpose — by destroying people’s reputations and lives, no matter how powerless."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Greenwald wrote: ‘The overarching rule of liberal media circles and liberal politics is that you are free to accuse anyone who deviates from liberal orthodoxy of any kind of bigotry that casually crosses your mind — just smear them as a racist, misogynist, homophobe, transphobe, etc. without the slightest need for evidence — and it will be regarded as completely acceptable.
‘That’s the purpose, the function, of these lowly accusatory tactics: to control, to coerce, to dominate, to repress.’
He notes that others ‘are rightly terrorized by these lowlife tactics, intimidated into silence and conformity.’, adding: ‘They know if they express views these Stasi agents and their bosses dislike, their reputations can be instantly destroyed. So they remain silent or pliant out of necessity.’
‘They clearly get aroused — find otherwise-elusive purpose — by destroying people’s reputations and lives, no matter how powerless.
‘Whatever the motive, corporate media employees whose company title is ‘journalist’ are the primary activists against a free and open internet and the core values of free thought.
‘Its primary objectives are control, censorship, and the destruction of reputations for fun and power. Though its epicenter is the largest corporate media outlets, it is the very antithesis of journalism.’
...and here is the #1 rated/liked post at the DM site. Coming from a Canadian no less. :)
“These people are always searching for intolerance and finding it everywhere except in themselves”
Ministry of Propaganda infighting.
how myopically hypocritical of them
the same people who want neighbors to snitch on neighbors to the state authorities for a laundry list of ‘offenses’
the same people who applaud and demand more cameras all over watching us, in the name of ‘security’
Just imagine if someone had said “niggardly”.
NightWatch, ISN, Ministry of Truth...
Heard it all before...
Nails it.
I detest these people.
Those ‘woke’ individuals need to get haircuts, or their nails done, at some time during the year.
Y’all remember the barbershops in Chicago in the 1930’s, right?
Jus’ sayin ...
The schizophrenia must be encouraged with safe spaces and infantilism regression. It is not just free speech banning, it is a program of destroying mental health in America until we have auto destructive saturation.
Half the country will tune them out, and then they will start to purge their own. That’s the authoritarian way.
bump
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