Greenwald Quits The Intercept

Greenwald's departure wasn't all that surprising apart from the fact that he was the key name associated with The Intercept's founding in 2014. The online magazine arose in the wake of the Snowden revelations and yet within a few years it began to decline.

It moved from the position of adversarial dissident journalism into the edge of the mainstream. I think the turning point was the advent of Trump. It was at that point that the magazine was growing and they brought on board numerous people who seemed to be more or less echoing the DNC line. It was clear there was a conflict in the reporting, different messages coming out of the same outlet. I knew the outlet was in trouble when they brought on James Risen and Naomi Klein. And I never thought much of Jeremy Scahill. I'd read his book, watched his movie and while already unimpressed when I heard him hosting the Intercepted podcast, that's when I knew that he was little more than a poseur. Then when I discovered what his salary was – I knew he was an out and out phoney.

That kind of disagreement and opposition within a news outlet can work but apparently this incoming faction was able to eventually tip the scales against Greenwald and the magazine's owner the EBay founder Pierre Omidyar was either unable or unwilling to intervene.

Money corrupts. There's no doubt about that and many were leery about the project from its outset. Dissident reporters engaged in serious investigative journalism was a good thing but backed by a Silicon Valley billionaire? – that seemed a recipe for compromise. Also, as just mentioned from what I saw the salaries at The Intercept were pretty impressive. It would be hard to walk away from that. Greenwald to his credit has been unwilling to compromise. That's why he left The Guardian and now The Intercept.

It's interesting that the breaking point was the reporting on Hunter Biden. As I've said, there is a story there. It's not quite the story that's being reported by the FOX world and it's outrageously hypocritical for the Trump camp to make the charge. He's been guilty of such transgressions ten-fold. And yet the mainstream DNC-connected media's downplaying and burying of the story is just as dishonest if not criminal. FOX is truly a deplorable and harmful network but CNN is only a notch or two behind.

I'm sure Greenwald will start something new or someone will pick him up. He's not going to starve.

The Intercept will probably continue and drift into the world of Vice News and other outlets that have become propaganda arms of the Establishment. They target a niche audience and through their own style (Scahill can keep impressing us with his tough-talking profanity) they reach their audience and buttress the official story – whether about Russia, Ukraine, Syria or the like.

See also:

https://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2018/07/risen-mueller-and-false-expose.html

https://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-false-expose-part-2.html

https://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2019/07/sloppy-religious-reporting-from.html

https://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-intercept-good-bad-and-ugly.html

https://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-intercept-israeli-lobby-and.html

https://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2020/02/trump-1107-real-scandal-of-2016-glenn.html

https://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2017/07/greenwald-and-mainstream-medias-anti.html