Greenwald resigns from The Intercept over Biden censorship
By Tatiana Prophet
Glenn Greenwald, who famously interviewed Edward Snowden and brought his explosive information to the world, has resigned from the paper he co-founded in 2013 over censorship by his fellow publishers.
"This was not an easy choice: I am voluntarily sacrificing the support of a large institution and guaranteed salary in exchange for nothing other than a belief that there are enough people who believe in the virtues of independent journalism and the need for free discourse who will be willing to support my work by subscribing,” he wrote on Substack dot com, where good journalists go to write another day with very little reward.
While The Intercept is generally progressive-leaning, the paper's leadership is both centrist and leftist, Greenwald revealed. Centrist these days means the DNC machine. Unnamed editors at The Intercept attempted to delete all mention of corruption allegations about the Biden family in his latest article. They even rejected Greenwald’s suggestion that they counter his article with writings of their own.
“I could not sleep at night knowing that I allowed any institution to censor what I want to say and believe — least of all a media outlet I co-founded with the explicit goal of ensuring this never happens to other journalists, let alone to me, let alone because I have written an article critical of a powerful Democratic politician vehemently supported by the editors in the imminent national election.
“But the pathologies, illiberalism, and repressive mentality that led to the bizarre spectacle of my being censored by my own media outlet are ones that are by no means unique to The Intercept. These are the viruses that have contaminated virtually every mainstream center-left political organization, academic institution, and newsroom. I began writing about politics fifteen years ago with the goal of combatting media propaganda and repression, and — regardless of the risks involved — simply cannot accept any situation, no matter how secure or lucrative, that forces me to submit my journalism and right of free expression to its suffocating constraints and dogmatic dictates.
Welcome to the club, Mr. Greenwald! There's plenty of room and the water feels like the First Amendment. Also, you write really long sentences that still make sense!
Subscribe to him at Substack (along with Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi), and you can read the article that prompted his abrupt exit from what has increasingly become a place of repression, with no quarter for the complete truth.
