PeteFree.com"The Intercept" spinelessly morphed into yet another Establishment propagandizer — and the (literally) honorable Glenn Greenwald gave it the boot
© 2020 Peter Free
30 October 2020
Big Money always wins?
For some time, I have been noticing that The Intercept has spinelessly turned itself into yet another Establishment propaganda outlet.
Yesterday, Glenn Greenwald's resignation confirmed that impression:
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.
Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept, the news outlet I co-founded in 2013 with Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras, as well as from its parent company First Look Media.
The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden . . . .
[T]hese Intercept editors also demanded that I refrain from exercising a separate contractual right to publish this article with any other publication.
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 . . . (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.
© 2020 Glenn Greenwald, My Resignation From The Intercept, glenngreenwald.substack.com (29 October 2020)
That must have been painful
Metaphorically like your kid putting on a Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) uniform and sending you to a death camp.
The planet has about 8 billion people
Very few have visible-audible platforms.
Between media repression of non-oligarchic perspectives — and Google's inferable eagerness to "disappear" contrarians — we are now down to just a handful of talented Resistance Fighters, who still manage to pop up here and there and tell us true things.
It is wise practice to bookmark their Internet sites, lest those disappear into The Great Repression, never to be located again.
Glenn Greenwald is one of those few.
The moral? — Combine spine with honor — and resist
There is no moral or spiritual need to placidly love one's oppressors.
Misplaced compassion frequently suicides the soul's contributory worth.