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Their statement on Greenwald publishing elsewhere was: "It would be unfortunate and detrimental to The Intercept for this story to be published elsewhere." To
by solidasparagus 6y ago
Their statement on Greenwald publishing elsewhere was:
"It would be unfortunate and detrimental to The Intercept for this story to be published elsewhere."
To me this is clearly saying: "that would suck but we can't stop you". Otherwise they would have told him not to publish it instead of just describing the ramifications of him doing it.
- Lammy 6y agoTo me it's clearly saying "that would make us look bad because it's a reasonable story". And here we are.
- jacobolus 6y agoOr perhaps “That would make us look bad because our founder is credulously slinging bullshit Russian disinformation without making any journalistic effort to validate the story, calling into question the credibility of past work we have published”
- confidantlake 6y agoA reasonable story would not make them look bad. An unreasonable one would.
- Lammy 6y agoMake them look bad for censoring a reasonable story.