As Glenn Greenwald has pointed out, a lot of Real Journalists™ like NBC News’ Brandy Zadrozny are trying to demean Matt Taibbi as just some Substack guy doing PR work for Elon Musk after he tweeted out the #TwitterFiles Friday evening.
All the little employees of media corporations who don't do any reporting – just tattling on powerless citizens to get them censored – and who are the leading advocates for censorship, predictably attacking @mtaibbi and scoffing at his real reporting:https://t.co/mLXJq0OrK7
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 3, 2022
Zadrozny has the full power of NBC News at her disposal; maybe she should do a piece on why we shouldn’t care about collaboration between “the Biden team” and Twitter over the Hunter Biden laptop story. The emails are out there … aren’t journalists like firefighters rushing toward the fire?
Expect to hear more about the Twitter files now that Bari Weiss has reportedly been given access to them.
If you think they melted down over Taibbi, Elon Musk says he gave Bari Weiss access to the twitter files about an hour ago
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 3, 2022
— Paula K (@shadowop) December 3, 2022
this’ll be interesting
— Heidi (@HeidiBriones) December 3, 2022
— Marie Arf 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇨🇦 (@schwingcat) December 3, 2022
— Colonel Bijan Mustardson (@Tittlewk93) December 3, 2022
Best timeline…EVER.
— FFG-142 (@FFG154) December 3, 2022
Actual Journalists to the rescue
— Ellsworth Cowcat III Esq. (@CowcatEsq) December 3, 2022
Dude is going to also change the trajectory of journalism.
— Johnny Five is ALIVE! (@alivejohnnyfive) December 3, 2022
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But we’ve been assured by a Daily Beast reporter that “citizen journalism” is bad, and people like her have gone to school for years to learn their craft.
— Joey Jo-Jo Jr Shabadoo (@JoShabadoo) December 3, 2022
Got to say I am very impressed by the delivery strategy.
— TheHappening (@TheHappening4u) December 3, 2022
@bariweiss if this is accurate, I can’t wait for the content.
— Augustus McCrae (@Realguslife) December 3, 2022
I can't wait to see what sort of name calling they use to describe Bari
— Kuno (@Kuno_Age_17) December 3, 2022
People are furiously composing tweet drafts about how Bari has always been a hack.
— Bojac (@HeartlessBojac) December 3, 2022
— D. Lee 🍊🇺🇸🚫💉🩸🙏🏻 (@DLee64190734) December 3, 2022
Don’t worry. It’s all weak sauce and besides the Dems are a party and not a government so if they collude with big tech and the CIA to silence opposition it’s not a big deal.
— Joe (@Wehback) December 3, 2022
Bari as a PR firm for the world’s richest man is gonna be lit af.
— Mark Ashworth (@marklarflash) December 3, 2022
— MHS (@LablifeAZ) December 3, 2022
NYTimes about to demand Biden start shelling Substack
— Tristan Pinnock (@tpinnock) December 3, 2022
— Bizzy B (@bizzyinaz) December 3, 2022
He is handling this perfectly. Picking politically neutral journalists. Watching blue checks claim they're right wingers is hilarious.
— Needle Nose Ned (@NedRiersen) December 3, 2022
https://twitter.com/EightXTheClown/status/1599172938359803904
Two liberals liberals love to hate.
— Luckydogguy (@luckydogguy) December 3, 2022
— Samuel Belkin (@BelkinSamuel) December 3, 2022
Isn't it the spineless left that always says "journalists are essential to our democracy because they bring us the news of the world? Endangering, threatening, or trying to muzzle them in any way is a crime.
They are so principled about this aren't they :p
— CosmicD (@CosmicD) December 3, 2022
We were assured that journalists should be a protected class after President Trump hurt their feelings by calling them fake news, but they sure turn on their own when they break from the narrative.
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Related:
Glenn Greenwald nukes media’s #TwitterFiles spin (‘most brazen case of projection’ ever) https://t.co/jLXuLLUUPw
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 3, 2022
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