Renowned journalist resigns in protest of attacks on press freedom

Contrary to the belief that news agencies have to report on literally everything, they don't and never have, that isn't their function, certainly not in the US where they are explicitly private corporations who - thankfully due to the conservatives - are their own person, as such are affected fully by The First Amendment and can do as they please when it comes to covering stories.

"Man says he witnessed bigfoot" is not worth reporting on, so most agencies - excluding the nuttier ones or local papers who literally have nothing else to report on - will ignore it.

Just like this story which emanates squarely from Rudy's anus, seemingly after a lot of cocaine. It would only bring the news corporations into disrepute reporting on this transparent smear which is plainly scarce on corroborated evidence, logically inconsistent and is simply far too convenient.

The fact that Fox news didn't want to hold Rudy's bag of diarrhea goes to some length in justifying the lack of credibility involved.

The sad, yet equally risible issue with this is that if there was actually a legitimate story here, this demented character assassination has all but torpedo'd any reasonable investigation of it.
 
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/oct/29/journalist-glenn-greenwald-resigns-the-intercept

Basically, a journalist called Glenn Greenwald wanted to cover the Biden scandal that social media have been actively suppressing, mainstream media have black holed and OCUK locked the thread I made on but he wasn't allowed to, so he has resigned in protest.

We keep hearing that Trump is attacking the freedom of the corporate mainstream media but here we have evidence of the corporations themselves attacking the freedom of their own journalists.

Have modern journalists just become glorified script readers for billionaires?

So are you coming back to discuss this or is this another post'n'run thread?
 
The problem is, Biden is also crap. How out of 350million Americans have they ended up with those 2?

this was always my argument against trump, that from a nation that size that put men on the moon and was instrumental in such fundamentals as modern computing and the internet could they really find nobody more fit to lead them?
 
So the organisation doing the censoring was his own paper?

Ie not the government, which is what freedom of the media is meant to be about......

The problem is governments and the private sector are/have merging.

So while the government is held to account, private businesses aren't.

Private businesses have become more powerful than governments, to the point that they wanted to change the law to allow them to sue a government if new laws came in that impeded their business practice.

Social media was given special 'carrier status' like a utility that protected them personally from being sued if criminal acts happened on their platform. Sadly they have abused this to impose their own self rules that go against the general principle of American free speech (these companies tend to have their headquarters in the US).

If you join a private members club and they go beyond what is reasonable in law to expell you from the club they can be legally challenged and they can be forced to re-admit you in to the party. So a private club/group can't just make up their own rules to throw you out as they aren't above the law.
 
Don't take the bait folks, otherwise this thread will end up in the bin.

You are probably right, seems a purposely managed theme here. What’s the deal. ? Is there a political alignment that has to be platformed. It’s just seems every time a discussion takes place that contains an alternative view, the admin lock it strangely or the “Tony Edwards” types start spouting.

very unusual behaviour. ?
 
I don’t get your point I’m afraid. He is the best thing to happen to America in 20 years.


Dont worry these people are a noisy minority who give the false impression that everyone agrees. Your average person does not engage online and they like Trump. Look at the speakers corner threads it is the same people who post over and over double and even triple posting. When someone else goes in there thier little heads nearly explode.


Trumps the best for the UK and the USA and he can at least represent himself without mixing up his words and stuttering and stammering. And unlike Biden he can campaign on his own and attract large crowds where as Biden literally needs Obama. Its really sad actually if he wins it will be fantastic and hilarious. :)
 
They are private companies. They can do what they like. I bet you dont complain about Fox news and the Daily mail.

This makes no sense, like obviously private companies cannot simply do what they like, there's probably thousands of laws and regulations that apply to private companies. Imagine defending private companies rigging an election lmao. Pro tip mate, they aren't doing it for the benefit of the poor and needy.
 
This makes no sense, like obviously private companies cannot simply do what they like, there's probably thousands of laws and regulations that apply to private companies. Imagine defending private companies rigging an election lmao. Pro tip mate, they aren't doing it for the benefit of the poor and needy.

Maybe they get 9% of Joe's 10%? ;)
 
You are probably right, seems a purposely managed theme here. What’s the deal. ? Is there a political alignment that has to be platformed. It’s just seems every time a discussion takes place that contains an alternative view, the admin lock it strangely or the “Tony Edwards” types start spouting.

very unusual behaviour. ?
Who are you that you joined two weeks ago, have posted 20 times but know who Tony is?
 
This makes no sense, like obviously private companies cannot simply do what they like, there's probably thousands of laws and regulations that apply to private companies. Imagine defending private companies rigging an election lmao. Pro tip mate, they aren't doing it for the benefit of the poor and needy.
I dont even think they are biased anyway. It wouldnt be good for business to alienate half of the USA
 
I dont even think they are biased anyway. It wouldnt be good for business to alienate half of the USA

It is not about business it is about information and thought control. These people would run at a loss just to be number 1. They can rig elections, Rig search results. Ban posts like the NY post. They can do everything. If they remove enough people from a platform and leave only those they want anyone growing up will only see one sided views.

They will think wow, No one thinks like me! Am i bad? Should i just hide my views? Thats exactly why owning a popular platform is a dream for some types.
 
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