{"id":56681,"date":"2021-02-08T09:46:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T14:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56681"},"modified":"2021-02-08T09:46:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T14:46:17","slug":"the-journalistic-tattletale-and-censorship-industry-suffers-several-well-deserved-blows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56681","title":{"rendered":"The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows<\/a><\/h3>\n

The NYT’s Taylor Lorenz falsely accuses a tech investor of using a slur after spending months trying to infiltrate and monitor a new app that allows free conversation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz and Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

A new and rapidly growing<\/strong>\u00a0journalistic \u201cbeat\u201d has arisen over the last several years that can best be described as an unholy mix of junior high hall-monitor tattling and Stasi-like citizen surveillance. It is half adolescent and half malevolent. Its primary objectives are control, censorship, and the destruction of reputations for fun and power. Though its epicenter is the largest corporate media outlets, it is the very antithesis of journalism.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve\u00a0written before<\/a>\u00a0about one particularly toxic strain of this authoritarian \u201creporting.\u201d Teams of journalists at three of the most influential corporate media outlets \u2014\u00a0CNN<\/em>\u2019s \u201cmedia reporters\u201d (Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy),\u00a0NBC<\/em>\u2019s \u201cdisinformation space unit\u201d (Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny), and the tech reporters of\u00a0The New York Times<\/em> (Mike Isaac, Kevin Roose, Sheera Frenkel) \u2014 devote the bulk of their \u201cjournalism\u201d to searching for online spaces where they believe speech and conduct rules are being violated, flagging them, and then pleading that punitive action be taken (banning, censorship, content regulation, after-school detention). These hall-monitor reporters are a major factor explaining why tech monopolies, which (for reasons of self-interest and ideology) never wanted the responsibility to censor, now do so with abandon and seemingly arbitrary blunt force: they are shamed by the world\u2019s loudest media companies when they do not.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n

glenn greenwald, media, journalism, new york times, censorship, media ban, big tech<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows The NYT’s Taylor Lorenz falsely accuses a tech investor of using a slur after spending months trying to infiltrate and monitor a new app that allows free conversation. New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz and Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen A new and rapidly growing\u00a0journalistic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9336,120,5437,462,512,30920,1921],"class_list":["post-56681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-big-tech","tag-censorship","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-media-ban","tag-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56682,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56681\/revisions\/56682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}