Journalist Glenn Greenwald announced his departure from The Intercept, on Thursday (29) and claimed that the vehicle, of which he is a co-founder, tried to censor a column in which he criticized Joe Biden.
Greenwald said he will continue to publish his texts, now as freelancer, on the Substack platform, in partnership with journalists like Matt Taibbi and Andrew Sullivan.
Sullivan announced in July that he had left the New York Magazine. At the time, he stated that editors and copywriters were forced to commit to a “critical theory on issues of race, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity”.
Greenwald outlined the reasons for his resignation in a post on Substack.
“A final cause [da demissão] is that the editors of the The Intercept, in violation of my contractual right to editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I removed all critical parts of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, ”said Greenwald. Attacking “all the editors of Intercept based in New York ”that support Biden“ vehemently ”, Greenwald stated that“ modern media do not convey dissenting opinions; they cancel them out. “
Greenwald wrote that the article that his editors wanted to censor referred to documents regarding Joe Biden’s conduct in Ukraine and China. He criticized what he called Intercept’s “deep fear” of “offending hegemonic cultural progressivism and the center-left ‘stars’ of Twitter, and a comprehensive need to secure the approval and admiration of the mainstream media.” He further said that The Intercept was created “to oppose, criticize and subvert”.
On Wednesday, on the podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, Greenwald criticized what he called the media’s reluctance to talk about Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
“They are all desperate for Trump and want him to lose the election,” said Greenwald, referring to various media outlets. “They don’t want to be despised in their social circles. And so they are willing to relinquish their journalistic function, which is treating one of the most powerful people in the world, Joe Biden, in part because they want to manipulate and tamper with elections using journalism. But largely because they are afraid to hear screams on Twitter ”.
A staunch leftist, who made his name by exposing what he considered excesses of the Bush-era surveillance state, Greenwald recently won praise from conservatives for his skeptical coverage of the investigation in Russia.
Greenwald’s resignation also occurred after a major change in the New York Times in early June, when newspaper officials openly protested the publication of an opinion piece by Senator Tom Cotton (of the Republican Party of Arkansas), in which he asked for federal troops to be sent to contain the riots after his death George Floyd. THE Times he subsequently sacked opinion editor James Bennett, and opinion editor journalist Bari Weiss announced his resignation from the newspaper shortly afterwards.
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