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padding: 0px; font-size: 16px !important; margin: 5px 20px !important;">New post on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong class="">Caitlin Johnstone</strong></h2></td><td style="text-align: right;" class=""><img border="0" class="head-avatar" src="https://i1.wp.com/caitlinjohnstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cropped-caitlinpic1.jpg?resize=32%2C32&ssl=1" alt="" width="32" height="32" style="margin: 5px 20px 5px 0px; vertical-align: middle;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width: 600px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 560px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="the-post"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 560px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: top; width: 60px !important;" class=""><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/?author=2" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178); display: block; margin-right: 10px;" class=""><img border="0" alt="" src="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/12152988a68a6d4dae7506812444c18f?s=50&d=monsterid&r=G" class="avatar avatar-50" height="50" width="50"></a></td><td class=""><h2 class="post-title" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin: 0px; font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/10/30/greenwalds-intercept-resignation-exposes-the-rot-in-all-mass-media/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">Greenwald’s Intercept Resignation Exposes The Rot In All Mass Media</a></h2><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);" class="">by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/?author=2" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(136, 136, 136) !important;" class="">Caitlin Johnstone</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="post-content" style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 1em; max-width: 560px;"><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Journalist Glenn Greenwald has made major waves throughout mainstream and alternative media by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">resigning from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">The Intercept</em></a>, an outlet he co-founded 2014 with the stated mission of holding power to account with the power of unrestricted journalism.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Greenwald says he resigned because <em class="">Intercept</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>editors refused to let him publish<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-biden-censored" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">an article he'd been working on</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>about the mass media's role in covering up the Hunter Biden October surprise and obfuscating its nature, which he says is a violation of the conditions in his contract for editorial freedom. He also<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-editors-showing" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">published part of the email exchanges</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>he'd been having with the editors in the lead-up to submitting his notice of resignation.</p><div class="embed-twitter" style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: italic; color: rgb(135, 135, 135); border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1em; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em;"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">My Resignation From The Intercept</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">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.<a href="https://t.co/dZrlYGfEBf" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">https://t.co/dZrlYGfEBf</a></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1321869227226222593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">October 29, 2020</a></p></blockquote></div><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">The email exchanges make it fairly clear that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">Intercept</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>editors were holding Greenwald's analysis of the allegations against Joe Biden and his family to a much higher evidentiary standard than they hold any journalist who wants to criticize Trump or promote flimsy Russia conspiracy theories on the platform, and generally creating pressure and inertia to remove anything in the article that might hurt Biden's election chances. Journalist Matt Taibbi<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://taibbi.substack.com/p/glenn-greenwald-on-his-resignation" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">has his own article out</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on Greenwald's resignation which contains more information on the email exchanges, and which is very much worth reading.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">More revealing than the emails is the information which Greenwald shares in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">his Substack article</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>about his resignation, saying <em class="">The Intercept</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has been deliberately opaque about those who were responsible for the Reality Winner debacle and the actions they took which led to her arrest when leaking NSA documents to the outlet. Greenwald claims editors rushed the publication of the leaks "because they was eager to prove to mainstream media outlets and prominent liberals that The Intercept was willing to get on board the Russiagate train," and says their silence has allowed the blame to fall on him for Winner's imprisonment despite his having nothing to do with the ordeal.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Greenwald also reveals that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">The Intercept</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>refused to report on the daily proceedings of the Julian Assange extradition hearing "because the freelance reporter doing an outstanding job was politically distasteful". It's unclear exactly what was meant by this; Greenwald<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1302942887366320128?s=20" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">has praised</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the excellent Assange trial coverage by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">Shadowproof</em>'s Kevin Gosztola and Richard Medhurst now of Press TV in the past,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1322019455472467968?s=20" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">both</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/richimedhurst/status/1321896604761264129?s=20" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">whom</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>say they don't at this time know who he was referring to. Regardless of what he meant, refusal of a media outlet whose motto is "Fearless, adversarial journalism" to cover the single most important journalistic freedom case in the world is outrageous on its face.</p><div class="embed-twitter" style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: italic; color: rgb(135, 135, 135); border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1em; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em;"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">I always wondered why<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/theintercept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">@theintercept</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>didn’t cover<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Assange?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">#Assange</a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://t.co/YNTWe4gB6G" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">pic.twitter.com/YNTWe4gB6G</a></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">— Richard Medhurst<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f1f8-1f1fe.png" alt="🇸🇾" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;"><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f1f5-1f1f8.png" alt="🇵🇸" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(@richimedhurst)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/richimedhurst/status/1321895247333543938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">October 29, 2020</a></p></blockquote></div><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><em class="">The Intercept</em> editors called Greenwald's criticisms "a grown person throwing a tantrum" in a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-the-intercept/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">remarkably snarky statement</a> on their website, claiming on what appears to be no basis that their co-founder was "attempting to recycle the dubious claims of a political campaign — the Trump campaign."</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">"We have the greatest respect for the journalist Glenn Greenwald used to be, and we remain proud of much of the work we did with him over the past six years," the editors wrote. "It is Glenn who has strayed from his original journalistic roots, not The Intercept."</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">These accusations are fully in line with the smears you can read from the blue-checkmarked commentariat by typing in Greenwald's name into the Twitter search bar on every given day. Establishment spinmeisters have been painting Greenwald as a closet Trump supporter who stumbled his way into useful idiocy for the Kremlin ever since the award-winning journalist began questioning the establishment Russia narrative, and this statement is plainly both informed by and designed to appeal to acolytes of that smear campaign.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Contrary to its claims of adhering to its "journalistic roots", <em class="">The Intercept</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has in fact been going down the tubes for as long as I've been at this commentary gig. Its<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/04/20/what-are-assad-apologists-are-they-like-those-saddam-apologists-of-2002/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">coverage</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/the-intercept-tries-to-conflate-opposition-to-us-syria-intervention-with-neo-nazism-8317d5fa2ec" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">Syria</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/intercept-withheld-nsa-doc-that-may-have-altered-course-of-syria-war/233757/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">been</a> blatant<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/04/26/russia-brings-syrians-hague-make-underwhelming-case-chemical-attack-fake/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">security</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>state<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/07/27/syria-war-documentary-for-sama/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">stenography</a>, it's published<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/11/15/wikileaks-julian-assange-donald-trump-jr-hillary-clinton/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">hit pieces</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/979797667369795585" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">Assange</a>, its sources<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/trump-continues-obamas-war-on-whistleblowers-arrests-another-alleged-intercept-source-36c60a13f124" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">keep getting arrested</a>, and it has been<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://theintercept.com/series/trump-and-russia/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">promoting Russiagate</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/01/15/trump-russia-putin-jefferson-davis/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">all the fervor</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of any<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/07/16/live-trump-and-putin-meet-in-helsinkis-hall-of-mirrors/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">garden variety</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>corporate<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/01/trump-putin-form-axis-mass-destruction-climate-french-minister-fears/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">liberal rag</a>. So the fact that it has joined with the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://taibbi.substack.com/p/with-the-hunter-biden-expose-suppression-136" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">freakishly unified narrative management campaign</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on the Hunter Biden story, and is now<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-editors-showing" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">citing unsubstantiated assertions by US spooks</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to do so, is not terribly surprising.</p><div class="embed-twitter" style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: italic; color: rgb(135, 135, 135); border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1em; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em;"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">When intel officials decried the recent Post story, they wrote, "We do not have evidence of Russian involvement." The recent Intercept story quoting the letter left out that line.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">“The CIA letter was more honest than The Intercept,” Greenwald notes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://t.co/9i43bgwKds" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">https://t.co/9i43bgwKds</a></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1321974927755513864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">October 30, 2020</a></p></blockquote></div><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><em class="">The Intercept</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has fallen victim to the same decay as all other outlets past a certain size and funding level. Matt Taibbi, who says he's spoken to "multiple well-known journalists" who are encountering similar pressures as those Greenwald encountered in the lead-up to the US election, wrote the following in his aforementioned<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://taibbi.substack.com/p/glenn-greenwald-on-his-resignation" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">article</a>:</p><blockquote style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: italic; color: rgb(135, 135, 135); border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1em; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em;" class=""><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">The traditional method of controlling the press — as described by legendary independent journalists like I.F. Stone — was the quiet aside by the boss, “<a href="http://www.ifstone.org/biography.php" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">a little private talk</a>,” where a “hint that the reporter seems irresponsible, a little bit radical” would be dropped. Getting the message, and fearing for his or her job, the reporter backs off. Or, in cases like the Iraq war runup, the strategic dismissal or un-hiring of a big name with the wrong views — <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozxzNjRqCiE" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">Phil Donahue</a>,<a href="https://www.startribune.com/ventura-says-msnbc-nixed-his-show-for-not-supporting-iraq-war/78150302/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class=""> Jesse Ventura</a> — makes sure the rest of the employees get the message.</p><div style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Greenwald co-founded the <em class="">Intercept </em>with this exact scenario in mind, building a structure where “little private talks” with bosses would never happen, and there couldn’t be high-profile dismissals for ideological reasons.</p><div style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">What he didn’t guess at was that even in an atmosphere where managerial interference is near zero, a collective of independent journalists can themselves become censors and enforcers of official orthodoxies. In some cases, journalists will become more aggressive propagandists and suppressors of speech than the officials from whom they supposedly need to be protected. This is what happened with <em class="">The Intercept.</em></p></blockquote><div class="embed-twitter" style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: italic; color: rgb(135, 135, 135); border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1em; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em;"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">I really enjoyed my 3-hour discussion yesterday with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/joerogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">@joerogan</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>-- a wide range of issues: media censorship in general & on Biden, free speech erosions, surveillance & privacy, what responsibilities come with a public platform, just raw & honest discourse:<a href="https://t.co/X6gIDwVkcz" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">https://t.co/X6gIDwVkcz</a></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1321513516029874177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">October 28, 2020</a></p></blockquote></div><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">People will cite all sorts of reasons for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">The Intercept</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>running cover for intelligence agencies and powerful politicians, including<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2014/03/01/journalistic-independence/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">its Omidyar funding</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and the possibility of government infiltration. But I think the primary source of the decay of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">The Intercept</em> is much more basic: having large, well-funded news media outlets simply is not conducive to good reporting.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Powerful people pour so very much energy into manipulating how the masses think, act and vote, and news reporters are constantly interfacing with that severely polluted stream of information. For this reason the most heavily propagandized people in the world are those who are responsible for distributing propaganda, namely the news media. As the final guardians of society's <a href="https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/the-incredible-shrinking-overton-window-67fff49f3846" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">incredible shrinking Overton window</a>, reporters are necessarily the group who will be most aggressively pushed within that window.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">If as Upton Sinclair says it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it, then surely that is especially true of those who've spent their working lives learning what frameworks of understanding help them ascend to prominence in the sphere of journalism. This would have shaped them long before they arrived at any outlet which purports to promote "fearless adversarial journalism", and it would continue shaping them as they interact with fellow journalists.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">This combined with a dominant plutocrat-funded media system<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/former-msnbc-reporter-spills-details-on-pro-establishment-bias-in-media-c1524e6fde2f" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">designed to streamline journalistic thought</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>into mainstream establishment orthodoxies creates a kind of conformity conveyor belt that journos get processed through like the schoolchildren in the video for Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall".</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><img border="0" src="https://thumbs.gfycat.com/HeartfeltMagnificentCricket-size_restricted.gif" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px;" class=""></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">The dominant worldview in any collective of journalists is statistically likely to be a mainstream worldview, simply because it's more common by its very nature. Mainstream worldviews are only mainstream because vast amounts of wealth and effort went into shoving them into the mainstream by sheer force for the benefit of the rich and powerful, whose kingdoms are built upon the capitalist imperialist status quo. If you set out to just hire a bunch of journalists who seem good to you, you're necessarily going to get a lot of people unwittingly promoting the interests of the rich and powerful just by sheer statistical probability.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">When you take all these factors together and throw them into a large media outlet full of journalists, our primitive impulses to conform with the pack kick in and the consensus worldview has a much easier time overtaking critical thought even further than it already has.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Additionally, when you gather news reporters together in a large outlet you're going to attract the attention of powerful forces who have a vested interest in controlling how the news is reported. If you can use your leverage and/or resources to manipulate how that entire outlet reports, then that's energy well spent.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">All this to say, decentralization is going to have to be the way forward for good critical journalism. There are so few reporters who haven't been digested by the conformity conveyor belt, and if you stick them with the groupthink herd they're going to be squeezed until they either fall in line or leave. Stop trying to throw the few alive ones in with the zombies and let them go out on their own or in small groups; they'll be much harder to influence and they can do a lot more damage to the lie factory.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">I don't know if the best way to make a living doing that is with paid Substack submissions like Greenwald and Taibbi or more like my own Patreon-based model, or with some other approach we haven't thought of yet. I just know that every time we cluster up in groups we bog ourselves down and make ourselves an easy target for the machine. It's clear with the decay of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">The Intercept</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that we're better off finding ways to let our own skills and insight guide us down our own paths toward this journalism thing while the conformity drones rot in their well-funded outlets. The audiences will be there. Truth is attractive to people, serving power is not.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">I don't know that the Hunter Biden October surprise shows anything more scandalous than you'd expect for any major US presidential nominee. I do know that the uniform conspiracy of silence and obfuscation from the mass media about it is uniquely scandalous and says bad things about the future of journalism in western news media. We can't keep doing things the way we've been doing them. 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