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The idea that the Intercept has a blanket prohibition on criticism of Joe Biden is transparently ridiculous. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/02/biden-foreign-
by ojnabieoot 6y ago
The idea that the Intercept has a blanket prohibition on criticism of Joe Biden is transparently ridiculous.
https://theintercept.com/2020/09/02/biden-foreign-policy-war/ https://theintercept.com/2020/09/02/biden-foreign-policy-war...
https://theintercept.com/2020/09/01/biden-economic-policy-us-economy/ https://theintercept.com/2020/09/01/biden-economic-policy-us...
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/13/biden-latino-deportation-moratorium-platform/ https://theintercept.com/2020/08/13/biden-latino-deportation...
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/07/joe-biden-climate-policy-advisers/ https://theintercept.com/2020/08/07/joe-biden-climate-policy...
What Glenn’s whiny rant leaves out is that it wasn’t just the Intercept that refused to run the Hunter/Ukraine/China BS: reporters at the NY Post and Wall Street Journal both refused to put their names on the story. The NY Post had to use a producer on Tucker Carlson’s show, while the WSJ ran the story as an op-ed since the reporters again refused to tarnish their reputation (they also ran a story from the actual reporters rebutting the allegations)
Editorial judgment and criticism is part of free speech. It is not just about broadcasting the president’s re-election propaganda as loudly as you can. And the idea that Glenn Greenwald can be trusted rests entirely on his 2007-2015 work, and ignores how disgraceful, craven, and just plain pathetic he became in 2016. Anyone who appears on Tucker Carlson’s show simply should not be trusted.
- collegecamp293 6y agoThis is wrong. The WSJ did report as The Editorial Board (means all of them). https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bidens-and-tony-bobulinski-11603927190 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bidens-and-tony-bobulinski-...
- ojnabieoot 6y agoYou are wrong, the actual op-ed that “reported” the allegations was “written” by Strassel a week before the editorial you linked to: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-biden-family-legacy-11603409528 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-biden-family-legacy-1160340... Edit: to clarify, the editorial you linked seems to be a real editorial that said “these questions need to be investigated” - the op-Ed I linked to presented itself as divulging new information. In 99.9999999% of cases this would be an odd use of an op-ed, but it appears to have been the only option since the reporters refused. It is also worth noting that WSJ has a unique and well-known dichotomy between “brilliant, hard-hitting reporting” and “unbelievably hackish Joe-Rogan-level opinions.”
- AaronFriel 6y agoAnother Wall Street Journal article, this time from the news desk, found no link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/hunter-bidens-ex-business-partner-alleges-father-knew-about-venture-11603421247 https://www.wsj.com/articles/hunter-bidens-ex-business-partn...