Journalist Glenn Greenwald resigns over censorship about Biden

Journalist Glenn Greenwald has resigned from The Intercept, seven years after co-founding the online publication, citing censorship by his own editors over an article concerning former Vice President Joe Biden.

The 53-year-old shared his resignation letter in a tweet to his more than 1.5 million followers on Thursday afternoon, in which he accused editors of refusing to publish an article he wrote unless he removed "all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression."

Greenwald, who came to prominence for helping break the news on classified documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, has built a reputation as one of the media's most combative and contrarian voices.
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He has also emerged as a vocal critic of the mainstream media, accusing it of quashing alternative views when it comes to coverage of certain news stories. In his resignation letter, Greenwald accused Intercept editors in New York of becoming "increasingly authoritarian" and "repressive."

"The censored article, based on recently revealed emails and witness testimony, raised critical questions about Biden’s conduct. Not content to simply prevent publication of this article at the media outlet I co-founded, these Intercept editors also demanded that I refrain from exercising a separate contractual right to publish this article with any other publication," he wrote in his letter.

He went on to say that the "right of journalistic independence" was "suppressed by an increasingly authoritarian, fear-driven, repressive editorial team in New York bent on imposing their own ideological and partisan preferences on all writers while ensuring that nothing is published at The Intercept that contradicts their own narrow, homogenous ideological and partisan views: exactly what The Intercept, more than any other goal, was created to prevent."

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/523402-glenn-greenwald-resigns-from-the-intercept


"The brute censorship this week of my article - about the Hunter Biden materials and Joe Biden’s conduct regarding Ukraine and China, as well my critique of the media’s rank-closing attempt, in a deeply unholy union with Silicon Valley and the 'intelligence community', to suppress its revelations - eroded the last justification I could cling to for staying."

Greenwald wrote that he was particularly disturbed by The Intercept - owned by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar - referring to the Hunter Biden hard drive as Russian disinformation, without evidence.

"The Intercept published some of the most credulous and false affirmations of maximalist Russiagate madness, and, horrifyingly, took the lead in falsely branding the Hunter Biden archive as 'Russian disinformation' by mindlessly and uncritically citing - of all things - a letter by former CIA officials that contained this baseless insinuation," Greenwald wrote.

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said last week that The Post’s reporting on the Hunter Biden emails "is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign." Secretary of State Mike Pompeo concurred.

On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey were grilled by the Senate commerce committee on their censorship this month of The Post’s reporting. Facebook said it throttled The Post’s initial stories pending fact-checking. Twitter blocked distribution of URLs and locked down the account of The Post, journalists and officials who shared the stories.

Twitter censored The Post's stories under a "hacked materials" policy, despite no evidence that the records were hacked, and The Post’s main Twitter account remains locked.

Former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski went public to corroborate allegations that Joe Biden was aware of and involved in his son's dealings, including a 2017 business proposal with a Chinese energy company. A document mentioned a 10 percent set-aside for "the big guy", who Bobulinski says was Joe Biden.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-quits-the-intercept-over-hunter-biden-article/

 

With Greenwald gone, that leaves how many real journalists left? Any?