This Is What They Are

Sunday 7 February 2021 - Filed under 1A + Cancel Culture + Dumbassery + Free Speech + Journalism

Nail, meet the hammer. Glenn Greenwald:

But this is now the prevailing ethos in corporate journalism. They have insufficient talent or skill, and even less desire, to take on real power centers: the military-industrial complex, the CIA and FBI, the clandestine security state, Wall Street, Silicon Valley monopolies, the corrupted and lying corporate media outlets they serve. So settling on this penny-ante, trivial bullshit — tattling, hall monitoring, speech policing: all in the most anti-intellectual, adolescent and primitive ways — is all they have. It’s all they are. It’s why they have fully earned the contempt and distrust in which the public holds them.

This is exactly right. Journalism is not the noble fourth estate speaking truth to power any longer. They’re deathly scared of free speech, act as stenographers for those in power, and work only to further their own influence as the locus of all acceptable information, seeking to completely destroy everything else that doesn’t pass through their gates. Journalists are petty, vindictive fucks who seek to silence those who refuse to buy their brand of bullshit. Their profession cannot die a quicker death.

2021-02-07  »  madlibertarianguy