OPINION EDITORIAL
Glenn Greenwald exits Intercept, damning the lockstep liberal media
By Post Editorial Board
October 29, 2020 | 9:18pm
AP
Pulitzer-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald just quit the publication he co-founded, The Intercept, after its editors refused to let him publish an article on Hunter Biden’s e-mails that defended The Post’s reporting.
He wrote about his decision at Substack, where he’ll be joining other left-leaning iconoclasts such as Andrew Sullivan and Matt Taibbi, living off subscriptions to uncensored content.
His comments are blisteringly incisive — utterly eviscerating the lockstep left-of-center media:
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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-exits-intercept-damning-the-lockstep-liberal-media/
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“Rather than offering a venue for airing dissent, marginalized voices and unheard perspectives, [The Intercept] is rapidly becoming just another media outlet with mandated ideological and partisan loyalties, a rigid and narrow range of permitted viewpoints (ranging from establishment liberalism to soft leftism, but always anchored in ultimate support for the Democratic Party), a deep fear of offending hegemonic cultural liberalism and center-left Twitter luminaries, and an overarching need to secure the approval and admiration of the very mainstream media outlets we created The Intercept to oppose, critique and subvert.”
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More, he notes: “The Intercept published some of the most credulous and false affirmations of maximalist Russiagate madness, and, horrifyingly, took the lead in falsely branding the Hunter Biden archive as ‘Russian disinformation’ by mindlessly and uncritically citing — of all things — a letter by former CIA officials that contained this baseless insinuation.”
Greenwald says he asked the New York staff, rather than censoring his arguments, “to air 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.”
It was a no-go: “Modern media outlets do not air dissent; they quash it.” Appalling.
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