Glenn Greenwald resigned from The Intercept after his editors refused to let him publish an article critical of Joe Biden

[Iconoclast]

Specifically, this article, which he has now published on Substack instead:

Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored By The Intercept

An attempt to assess the importance of the known evidence, and a critique of media lies to protect their favored candidate, could not be published at The Intercept

greenwald.substack.com

I’ve always liked Glenn for his anti-establishment takes. Very strange that he had to leave the media organization that he, himself, founded, because he had no editorial control any longer.

His editors wanted him to remove every single part of the article that was critical of Joe Biden, which would’ve stripped it down to a skeleton.

Publication by the New York Post two weeks ago of emails from Hunter Biden's laptop, relating to Vice President Joe Biden's work in Ukraine, and subsequent articles from other outlets concerning the Biden family's pursuit of business opportunities in China, provoked extraordinary efforts by a de facto union of media outlets, Silicon Valley giants and the intelligence community to suppress these stories.

One outcome is that the Biden campaign concluded, rationally, that there is no need for the front-running presidential candidate to address even the most basic and relevant questions raised by these materials. Rather than condemn Biden for ignoring these questions -- the natural instinct of a healthy press when it comes to a presidential election -- journalists have instead led the way in concocting excuses to justify his silence.

After the Post’s first article, both that newspaper and other news outlets have published numerous other emails and texts purportedly written to and from Hunter reflecting his efforts to induce his father to take actions as Vice President beneficial to the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, on whose board of directors Hunter sat for a monthly payment of $50,000, as well as proposals for lucrative business deals in China that traded on his influence with his father.

Look, it’s obvious to anyone with half a brain that the Biden family were engaging in influence-peddling in China and Ukraine. The reaction to all of this has been rather amusing. The media have chosen to plug their ears and hum Stars and Stripes Forever in the hopes that all these photographs of Hunter Biden’s penis will miraculously disappear. Hardcore Democrat voters aren’t even reacting at all. They’re pretending that none of this exists and they aren’t even discussing it.

 

[Tiamat]

Specifically, this article, which he has now published on Substack instead:

Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored By The Intercept

An attempt to assess the importance of the known evidence, and a critique of media lies to protect their favored candidate, could not be published at The Intercept

greenwald.substack.com

I’ve always liked Glenn for his anti-establishment takes. Very strange that he had to leave the media organization that he, himself, founded, because he had no editorial control any longer.

His editors wanted him to remove every single part of the article that was critical of Joe Biden, which would’ve stripped it down to a skeleton.



Look, it’s obvious to anyone with half a brain that the Biden family were engaging in influence-peddling in China and Ukraine. The reaction to all of this has been rather amusing. The media have chosen to plug their ears and hum Stars and Stripes Forever in the hopes that all these photographs of Hunter Biden’s penis will miraculously disappear. Hardcore Democrat voters aren’t even reacting at all. They’re pretending that none of this exists and they aren’t even discussing it.

I've always had mixed opinions about Greenwald, don't agree with some of the crap he says. That said....he does have a point here. If you have an issue with an article? Write a damn rebuttal. That's how a free press is supposed to work. Not this fascist Soviet authoritarian shit that a lot of the corporate media are pushing now where they ban and suppress article they don't agree with and disparage and "dox" anyone who refuses to hew to the official narrative.


It's bloody hilarious, in a sad way. For all the chest pounding and thumping the Democrats have been doing, screaming about how Trump is a threat to the Republic for the past four years, when the actions of their own followers are clearly that. Height of total hypocrisy and utterly sickening.


I hope we are not seeing the death of the free press. If we lose the free press and they become little more than mouthpieces of their corporate backers and donors, the Republic is over. Time will tell.

 

[Terthna]

I've always had mixed opinions about Greenwald, don't agree with some of the crap he says. That said....he does have a point here. If you have an issue with an article? Write a damn rebuttal. That's how a free press is supposed to work. Not this fascist Soviet authoritarian shit that a lot of the corporate media are pushing now where they ban and suppress article they don't agree with and disparage and "dox" anyone who refuses to hew to the official narrative.


It's bloody hilarious, in a sad way. For all the chest pounding and thumping the Democrats have been doing, screaming about how Trump is a threat to the Republic for the past four years, when the actions of their own followers are clearly that. Height of total hypocrisy and utterly sickening.


I hope we are not seeing the death of the free press. If we lose the free press and they become little more than mouthpieces of their corporate backers and donors, the Republic is over. Time will tell.

The free press died a long time ago; if it was ever alive to begin with. To find anything even remotely like it, you have to hunt down and follow the independents who aren't beholden to the directives of a larger corporate structure.

 

[gral]

I have big problems with Greenwald, because in Brazil he has actively worked to bring down the Brazilian government, working with people who hacked phones of government ministers(those hackers were tied to members of leftist political parties) in 2019; the only reason why his house hasn't been searched by the Brazilian Federal Police is his husband(who has been charged with terrorism by the UK Police) is a Representative in Brazilian Congress, and therefore his house is under immunity. For someone who is supposed to be a voice of press morality he's quite willing to engage in the same questionable alliances and practices which he condemns in the US press to smear those he doesn't like.

 

[Tiamat]

I have big problems with Greenwald, because in Brazil he has actively worked to bring down the Brazilian government, working with people who hacked phones of government ministers(those hackers were tied to members of leftist political parties) in 2019; the only reason why his house hasn't been searched by the Brazilian Federal Police is his husband(who has been charged with terrorism by the UK Police) is a Representative in Brazilian Congress, and therefore his house is under immunity. For someone who is supposed to be a voice of press morality he's quite willing to engage in the same questionable alliances and practices which he condemns in the US press to smear those he doesn't like.

Greenwald is a showman with a certain ideological bent. He's done pretty much what you described and I wouldn't trust him to walk my family dog. That said, he still did make a valid point about the current issues with the mainstream press in the U.S. In the case of Greenwald it might be analogous to the phrase "even a broken clock is right twice a day.".

 

[gral]

Greenwald is a showman with a certain ideological bent. He's done pretty much what you described and I wouldn't trust him to walk my family dog. That said, he still did make a valid point about the current issues with the mainstream press in the U.S. In the case of Greenwald it might be analogous to the phrase "even a broken clock is right twice a day.".

Oh, I agree he has a valid point here. What I'm saying is that that's the only thing he has - his behaviour shows that it's not on principles he's opposing this.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Here's what The Intercept has to say about the whole affair:

Glenn Greenwald Resigns From The Intercept

Greenwald’s decision stems from a fundamental disagreement over the role of editors and the nature of censorship.

theintercept.com

For now, it is important to make clear that our goal in editing his work was to ensure that it would be accurate and fair. While he accuses us of political bias, it was he who was attempting to recycle the dubious claims of a political campaign — the Trump campaign — and launder them as journalism.

And Glenn was just on Tucker Carlson, and he sounds very annoyed.



You can hear the simmering anger in his voice.

 

[Tiamat]

Here's what The Intercept has to say about the whole affair:

Glenn Greenwald Resigns From The Intercept

Greenwald’s decision stems from a fundamental disagreement over the role of editors and the nature of censorship.

theintercept.com

And Glenn was just on Tucker Carlson, and he sounds very annoyed.



You can hear the simmering anger in his voice.

In a way, one has to appreciate the irony of it all. Greenwald established the Intercept to be his own shit-stirring vehicle, and now it's turned on him.

Revolutions have a nasty habit of eating their own children, as they say.

 

[gral]

In a way, one has to appreciate the irony of it all. Greenwald established the Intercept to be his own shit-stirring vehicle, and now it's turned on him.

It's fucking hilarious, that's what it is.

 

[gral]

To those who can read Portuguese, or are interested enough to get an online translator and try to make sense of it, this is what Greenwald was up to in Brazil:

A Vaza Jato e o sequestro de jornalistas brasileiros, por Paula Schmitt | Poder360

Vazamentos empoderaram Intercept Podem ser ameaça aos seus pares

www.poder360.com.br

"Lava Jato"("Jet Wash"), the coloquial name for those machine car wash services, was an operation of the Brazilian Federal Police which started investigating corruption rackets on Petrobras and became one of the main forces in ousting the leftist government of Brazil in 2016. It was compared to Operation Clean Hands, the Italian police operation against corrupt politicians in 1990s Italy, and its members were raised to the condition of heroes, especially the judge most linked to it, Sérgio Moro.

Moro would become Justice Minister in 2019, and in the same year, hackers linked to Greenwald(who founded an agency called The InterceptBR) would get their hands on countless WhatsApp and private Twitter conversations of Moro and other politicians, in what was nicknamed "Vaza Jato"("Jet Leak").

The article above talks about the use of "Vaza Jato" material in blackmail - by intercepting private messages of politicians, they also catch messages that these politicians exchanged with other journalists and all of the dirty dealing originating thereof; as an example, it's a persistent rumor that most female journalists covering the political scene in Brasília have exchanged sexual favors for inside information(to be turned into headlines). By showing the information they have to other journalists("look at what I have"), The InterceptBR is able to make it known they have compromat on those("look at what I have about you").

EDIT: Had forgotten to add "BR" on "The InterceptBR" name