Indicting the liberal media for censorship, journalist Glenn Greenwald has publicly announced his resignation from The Intercept, which he helped found in 2013 with the goal of preventing censorship.
According to an Op-Ed Greenwald wrote on Substack, The Intercept refused to publish Greenwald's concerns about Biden in light of recent revelations about the alleged activities of Hunter Biden and possible links between the former vice president and his son's lucrative foreign business operations.
Greenwald bemoaned the fact that "Modern media outlets do not air dissent; they quash it," calling the liberal media outlet's refusal to run his reporting "Censorship."
"The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded," he wrote.
As part of his Op-Ed, Greenwald shared a statement of purpose for a new media outlet he hopes to start, which read in part, "American media is gripped in a polarized culture war that is forcing journalism to conform to tribal, groupthink narratives that are often divorced from the truth and cater to perspectives that are not reflective of the broader public but instead a minority of hyper-partisan elites."
"A media outlet that renounces its core function - pursuing answers to relevant questions about powerful people - is one that deserves to lose the public's faith and confidence. And that is exactly what the U.S. media, with some exceptions, attempted to do with this story: they took the lead not in investigating these documents but in concocting excuses for why they should be ignored," he wrote.
The Intercept would not publish that, leaving Greenwald to write, "It is astonishing to me, but also a reflection of our current discourse and illiberal media environment, that I have been silenced about Joe Biden by my own media outlet."
Friday, October 30, 2020
Prominent Journalist Quits Liberal Outlet He Founded Over Suppression of Biden Story
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