It’s not just Rolling Stone; as Glenn Greenwald often points out, the Left as a whole has now positioned itself as a defender of all of the alphabet agencies, like the FBI and CIA and DHS. The Left has also gone pro-censorship. Hey, if the FBI or Rep. Adam Schiff were pressuring Twitter to suppress stories and even searches, that was just them protecting American citizens from disinformation, right?
You can tell by the collective yawn from liberals over the revelations in the #TwitterFiles that they just don’t care as long as it helps their side. It’s a big story, but as Matt Taibbi points out, this would be the time when a real media would dig into the story and investigate the claims.
How journalism works when the press is real:
One reporter does a story. It may not be the whole story, but it’s newsworthy. The next reporter finds the next piece of the puzzle. A third adds more. We compete, but all push the story forward.
The TF response exposes a fake press:— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 21, 2023
Because they’re not real journalists. The lot of them are invested in protecting people in power and defending their own screwups (like their stories about #ReleaseTheMemo being driven by Russian bots), so they’re refusing to follow up on dozens of newsworthy stories.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 21, 2023
This is why I now have to hire people to help chase down all the stuff in the Twitter Files — because the “community” of reputable journalists not only won’t investigate as they once would have, they’re trying to shut such inquiries down.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 21, 2023
My old employer, Rolling Stone, won a National Magazine Award once for investigating the same topic — U.S. information operations. Now the magazine won’t touch any story that they can’t pin entirely on Republicans. A “counterculture” mag is protecting FBI, DHS, DOD. https://t.co/AHJeoLtlYn
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 21, 2023
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I’ve thought for years, the decline of journalism is central to our political chaos. Serious question: what happened to the tim russert style journalists who were just hard on everyone and their fame was due to being trusted? Is there some reason they don’t exist? It’s odd.
— Max Cayo MD, PhD (@Cay_Zone) February 21, 2023
My theory is the business collectively decided in 2016 that they had to change their business model because of Trump. This article was influential: https://t.co/NnBnecCv6c https://t.co/LCvyPwPwHV
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 21, 2023
CNN should be raging at the source that led them to publish flat-out wrong stories like this. Instead, they’re circling wagons to protect people who burned them. Why would that be? https://t.co/qZBCOoKrlE
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 21, 2023
Ah yes, the “experts” determined that it was Russian bots pushing all of those Republican hashtags.
Years late, the Washington Post did this story on the firm New Knowledge faking a Russian influence operation in Alabama. Good for them. But where’s the follow-up? New Knowledge was also the Senate Intel Committee’s expert on Russian bots, so: (1/2) https://t.co/ZHVPrD8TF6
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 21, 2023
Counter culture is what they used to be. When you are parroting government talking points, you are now filled with people who think they are counterculture because they don't realize that what was risky in the 80s is no longer the same topic. 😁
— AliceCaterpillar (@AliceCaterpill1) February 21, 2023
FWIW – Rolling Stone wouldn’t touch a story they couldn’t entirely pin on Republicans when you were there. You just see and feel it now.
— Doug Regner (@DougRegner) February 21, 2023
Conservatives are now the counterculture. The left has become everything they railed against since the 60's.
— MTB Bike Nut (@MTBObsessive) February 21, 2023
We remember doing a number of posts after President Trump’s election on how free speech maybe wasn’t such a good thing after all — these were writers at the nation’s most prominent newspapers pushing this idea.
It’s all about what people think advances their cause at any point in time.
As those change, so do their attitudes.
— SanchoPanzy (@SanchoPanzy) February 21, 2023
A complicit 'news' apparatus is one of the most serious issues we face as a society. When half the population has zero issue, or awareness, with being fed curated 'news' we are on the backside of a slippery slope and picking up speed fast.
— JJ (@whskythrottle) February 21, 2023
They are pro everything or everyone they think will hurt Trump's chances of re-election. Their moral compass has been shattered.
— Chaz Covfefe (@Chaz_Covfefe) February 21, 2023
It's weird how all the "counterculture" now sides with the government and all it's powerful arms. College students used to rebel against authority. Now they love to see its exercise against actual free thinkers. It's an almost unfathomable change.
— Minds Of Europa (@MindsOfEuropa24) February 21, 2023
“How dare you question the intelligence professionals in the FBI?”
And Taibbi’s right … the Twitter files are huge, and the mainstream media has ignored them because they don’t help their case in any way.
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