Greenwald: The Leading Activists for Online Censorship Are Corporate Journalists(greenwald.substack.com)
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Greenwald: The Leading Activists for Online Censorship Are Corporate Journalists
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congressional-testimony-the-leading
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ajarmst(6)
This excerpt makes little sense to me. It says that “sometimes” it’s news media that’s driving SV censorship.
It’s quite pointless having this discussion until there is more evidence as to how large “sometimes” is.
If the corporate media outlets are doing it 1%, social media companies 80% and Random YouTube influencer 15%, then spending time discussing corporate media outlets’ influence seems more than a little pointless.
If it’s up at 70% or the times, then yes, it becomes urgent to discuss this.
It’s quite pointless having this discussion until there is more evidence as to how large “sometimes” is.
If the corporate media outlets are doing it 1%, social media companies 80% and Random YouTube influencer 15%, then spending time discussing corporate media outlets’ influence seems more than a little pointless.
If it’s up at 70% or the times, then yes, it becomes urgent to discuss this.
This is one of the few people willing to speak truth to power
This is buzzword-laden gobbledygook, and I tend to think Greenwald is butthurt on “online censorship” because he got called on his shit.
https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/glenn-greenwald-quits-inte...
https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/glenn-greenwald-quits-inte...
The article you linked is almost 6 months old and says absolutely nothing about recent events related to Substack and the calls for censoring certain writers. And where does it call Greenwald's "bullshit"?
I hardly read the news anymore since there is so much outrage journalism. The tone of the news has very much changed and the press seems to be at war with everyone. Just in the last year there have been fights with the White House, social media, Substack writers, and probably more than I am forgetting. Are there any good news sources left if I never what to read anything outrage or culture wars?
NHK (the Japanese BBC) is reasonable.They focus on east-asian news, but they're a breath of fresh air every once and a while.
> the press seems to be at war with everyone
This is the focus of Matt Taibbi's "Hate Inc."
This is the focus of Matt Taibbi's "Hate Inc."
Wire services like reuter or AP are still fairly decent since it's mostly a straight reporting of events.
Reuters pushes propaganda
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-of...
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-of...
I subscribe to the Financial Times. Decent journalism. Mostly business focused tho.
> But the broader context for the bill is the one most interesting and the one on which I focused in my opening statement and testimony: namely, the relationship between social media and tech giants on the one hand, and the news media industry on the other. Contrary to the popular narrative propagated by news outlets — in which they are cast as the victims of the supremely powerful Silicon Valley giants — that narrative is sometimes (not always, but sometimes) the opposite of reality: much if not most Silicon Valley censorship of political speech emanates from pressure campaigns led by corporate media outlets and their journalists, demanding that more and more of their competitors and ideological adversaries be silenced. Big media, in other words, is coopting the power of Big Tech for their own purposes.
If it matters, I learned about this link/post via /r/stupidpol.