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Glen Greenwald, a long-time liberal journalist, is leaving the Intercept, a journalistic platform he helped create. He resigned over accusations that editors there have sacrificed journalistic integrity to block information damaging to a democratic president. Greenwald is among the few today in the US journalistic profession that still believe honesty in reporting and the free exchange of ideas is crucial to an informed democracy.
Anyone that does not live under a rock knows that American journalism today is nearly as low on the trust scale as US Congress and Washington, and for good reason. Older Americans that actually received a legitimate education, remember vividly being taught that totalitarian countries use their press as propaganda spreadsheets for the government. They recall that in the former Soviet Union, news reporting was nothing more than a public relations advertisement for central planning and socialist control of the citizen.
The result was that millions of Soviet citizens never knew there was any other way to conduct the administration of policies reported to be for the good of the people. In the 1960’s when Russia’s people wanted washing machines and television sets, they got missiles and tanks and went hungry and cold in the process.
The soviet press like America’s press is doing during this election cycle, reported only “good” news for its leadership and blocked any whisper of scandal or wrongdoing connected to its government representatives. Any Soviet citizen that bucked the system was accused of “slandering the state” or what the new rendition of American journalism and its cousin, social media sites call “spreading unverified hate speech”.
People in totalitarian countries are punished severely for criticizing the government and incredibly, the US Government turned its intelligence agencies inward on its own people to take down the administration of Donald Trump for attacking corrupt government shill, Hillary Clinton. So, anyone that does not think it can happen here better think again.
Joe Biden’s use of his son as a bag man to collect bribes from state enemies is getting a good leaving alone by the majority of the US press because the old totalitarian methodology of the end justifying the means is in play as we speak. In America, the mission of the press is to get “all” the information to the people and let them decide if its is relevant. It is not to filter information that might be bad for the government.
Salute Glen Greenwald.
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Anyone that does not live under a rock knows that American journalism today is nearly as low on the trust scale as US Congress and Washington, and for good reason. Older Americans that actually received a legitimate education, remember vividly being taught that totalitarian countries use their press as propaganda spreadsheets for the government. They recall that in the former Soviet Union, news reporting was nothing more than a public relations advertisement for central planning and socialist control of the citizen.
The result was that millions of Soviet citizens never knew there was any other way to conduct the administration of policies reported to be for the good of the people. In the 1960’s when Russia’s people wanted washing machines and television sets, they got missiles and tanks and went hungry and cold in the process.
The soviet press like America’s press is doing during this election cycle, reported only “good” news for its leadership and blocked any whisper of scandal or wrongdoing connected to its government representatives. Any Soviet citizen that bucked the system was accused of “slandering the state” or what the new rendition of American journalism and its cousin, social media sites call “spreading unverified hate speech”.
People in totalitarian countries are punished severely for criticizing the government and incredibly, the US Government turned its intelligence agencies inward on its own people to take down the administration of Donald Trump for attacking corrupt government shill, Hillary Clinton. So, anyone that does not think it can happen here better think again.
Joe Biden’s use of his son as a bag man to collect bribes from state enemies is getting a good leaving alone by the majority of the US press because the old totalitarian methodology of the end justifying the means is in play as we speak. In America, the mission of the press is to get “all” the information to the people and let them decide if its is relevant. It is not to filter information that might be bad for the government.
Salute Glen Greenwald.
Glenn Greenwald speaks out on leaving The Intercept over censorship: 'Embarrassed and angered'
Glenn Greenwald opened to "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Thursday about his decision to walk away from The Intercept -- the media outlet he co-founded
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