One of the most important pieces of writing this decade... Long read, with two related pieces. A good use of a weekend morning with a coffee and a window.
My Resignation From The Intercept
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.
https://t.co/dZrlYGfEBf
@ggreenwald Why does anyone need an assessment of the emergence of these people? To make sure we understand what they're saying?
Thanks anyway.
Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
I'll take the originals.
@EliLake@mtaibbi Of all motives to ascribe to me - financial - that's the dumbest. I was making a huge salary, and they paid my assistant, lawyers in Brazil & my physical security. It will be hard to replace that.
Some claiming this make many hundreds of thousands there for barely writing.
I feel if various journalists want to complain that the arrangement I've negotiated with news outlets who freely agreed to it can't produce good journalism, they should compare their own journalistic accomplishment to mine to highlight how their model works & mine doesn't.
The @NYPost will be allowed to post again, after being locked out for 3 weeks while many journalists stayed silent or cheered it like good little authoritarians.
Every time there's a censorship controversy, those taking the lead in advocating the repression are journalists.
In the latest reminder that China has opened multiple fronts with its aggressive expansionism, Chinese aircraft violate Taiwan's airspace for two consecutive days, in the most serious provocation since China conducted missile tests near Taiwan in 1996. https://t.co/5BCbOh5s50
@samhusseini WIV lab leak is going to be the last hypothesis standing about the origins of SARS-CoV2. It's shameful that the mainstream media are treating it like Trump owns it, hence it's an "unsubstantiated" conspiracy. It's by far the simplest explanation.
Please keep digging.
Today is September 11. Even as the world reels from the covid 19 pandemic and 900,000-plus deaths, let’s pause to remember that horrific terrorist attack 19 years ago & the 2,977 innocent persons killed in the Twin Towers, at the Pentagon & at Shanksville, PA. Let’s never forget.
@megynkelly Just like 2016. The two worst candidates in history force Americans to choose the lesser of two poisons.
If Trump could somehow keep his mouth shut, he would be an entirely different story. He's got some good policies, but his Twitter and Tourette's are deal breakers.