It’s weird … we keep looking around for Brian Stelter to pop up and weigh in on these attacks on journalists, but we don’t think he watches Fox News 24/7 anymore. Fortunately, we still have the Daily Beast’s media reporter, Justin Baragona, to keep people like Tucker Carlson in check. Carlson opened up NBC News’ Brandy Zadrozny for “mob-like harassment” by calling her a stormtrooper.
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with Tucker? Not only personally insulting an excellent reporter (and really good person) but literally calling her a "stormtrooper"?!
Just opening her up for mob-like harassment… and cackling about it the whole time! pic.twitter.com/ZSVfIiqDTR
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) October 19, 2022
We need more evidence that Zadrozny is a really good person. We’ve done a lot of posts on her and she just seems like another activist pretending to be a journalist.
We’re noticing that the list of people and things you’re allowed to criticize keeps getting shorter because you’re opening them up to “stochastic terrorism.” Carlson’s had mobs show up at his house, but we don’t recall the Left getting too outraged over that.
The media relentlessly destroy the lives of average people for sport and play the victim the minute they get 10 seconds of criticism https://t.co/KVBfS968sN
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) October 19, 2022
Here’s Glenn Greenwald to remind us that we have the right to criticize journalists:
These people in media corporations think they have the right to attack, mock, criticize, dox and try to destroy the lives of anyone they want, including (especially) ordinary citizens.
But if anyone criticizes how they use their massive corporate platforms, it's "harassment." https://t.co/vRgHFemPw4
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 19, 2022
Employees of the planet's large media corporations are 100% fair game for criticism. You have the absolute right to highlight all the damage they cause.
They do immense harm. They spread lies constantly. They're bullies who try to ruin the lives of people who think differently.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 19, 2022
These liberal employees of media corporations have been trying for years to create a warped framework where they can unite to viciously attack their ideological enemies, but they're off-limits from criticism.
If you critique them, it's "harassment." 😭https://t.co/Y3xyuDbMrc
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 19, 2022
Reject this framework. These are powerful actors who use major corporate platforms to ruin people's lives for fun. They roam in packs, closing ranks, trying to punish ideological dissenters.
But the minute someone criticizes them, they whine and self-victimize. Ignore this.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 19, 2022
A major reason we now have a censorship regime upheld by a union of state and corporate power is "journalists" at liberal media outlets agitated for it, knowing they're losing power and believing the only way to preserve it is by silencing their critics. This deserves scorn.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 19, 2022
To illustrate the point in pictures:
(left) liberal employees of giant media corporations when trying to dox private citizens as punishment for ideological dissent
(right) liberal employees of giant media corporations when they are criticized for how they use their power pic.twitter.com/S9KTukat1V
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 19, 2022
In case you missed it, the photo on the left is of the Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz knocking on the door of relatives of Libs of TikTok in the process of writing her hit piece in which the Post linked to her real estate license (and later backtracked and stealth-removed it).
https://twitter.com/slaves2society/status/1582840697903714304
I've always harshly criticized and expressed contempt for the behavior of the largest media corporations. Their systemic failures are why I began writing about politics. They're powerful actors and, like any others, merit critical scrutiny. There was never a time when I didn't.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 19, 2022
(and really good person)
— ●♧♢♡♤● (@Bodorodo) October 19, 2022
You criticize someone, you’re “opening them up for harassment.”
You describe the medical practices a hospital is actually engaging in, you’re “inciting terrorism.”
These people do and say, indefensible things and then, when you shine a light, blame the light for the reaction.
— Logan Spena (@LoganSpena) October 19, 2022
They've earned the right by being special enough to get hired by a media corporation. They're not supposed to be treated like ordinary plebs anymore
— Vito Brevis (@VitoBrevis) October 19, 2022
It's simple, they think they are better than you and are subject to different standards. In reality, they have a low IQ.
Actions have consequences.
— Colin J (@ColinJ33065275) October 19, 2022
We can’t remember at the moment who suggested that journalists be a protected class, although CNN’s Jim Acosta wrote a book about it being a dangerous time to tell the truth in America (after people started chanting “CNN sucks!” at Trump rallies).
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Related:
NBC News’ Brandy Zadrozny examines how ‘longtime ultra conservative activists’ and misguided parents are weaponizing the Critical Race Theory ‘boogeyman’ https://t.co/V9W8fDRs8a
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 15, 2021
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