{"id":57066,"date":"2021-03-11T19:35:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T00:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57066"},"modified":"2021-03-11T19:35:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T00:35:16","slug":"journalists-start-demanding-substack-censor-its-writers-to-bar-critiques-of-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57066","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor its Writers: to Bar Critiques of Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor its Writers: to Bar Critiques of Journalists<\/a><\/h3>\n

This new political battle does not break down along left v. right lines. This is an information war waged by corporate media to silence any competition or dissent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Supporters of Mark Meechan aka Count Dankula gather in central London to protest against his conviction under the Communications Act in March 2018 (Photo credit should read Wiktor Szymanowicz \/ Barcroft Media via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

On Wednesday, I\u00a0wrote<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0about how corporate journalists, realizing that the public\u2019s increasing\u00a0contempt for what they do<\/a>\u00a0is causing people to turn away in droves, are desperately inventing new tactics to maintain their stranglehold over the dissemination of information and generate captive audiences. That is why journalists have bizarrely transformed from their traditional role as leading free expression defenders into the the most vocal\u00a0censorship advocates<\/em>, using their platforms to demand that tech monopolies ban and silence others.<\/p>\n

That same motive of self-preservation is driving them to equate any criticisms of their work with \u201charassment,\u201d \u201cabuse\u201d and \u201cviolence\u201d \u2014 so that it is not just culturally stigmatized but a banning offense, perhaps even literally criminal, to\u00a0critique their journalism<\/em>\u00a0on the ground that any criticism of them places them \u201cin danger.\u201d Under this rubric they want to construct, they can malign anyone they want, ruin people\u2019s reputations, and unite to generate hatred against their chosen targets, but nobody can even criticize them.<\/p>\n

Any independent platform or venue that empowers other journalists or just ordinary citizens to do reporting or provide commentary outside of their repressive constraints is viewed by them as threats to be censored and destroyed. Every platform that enables any questioning of their pieties or any irreverent critiques of mainstream journalism \u2014 social media sites, YouTube, Patreon, Joe Rogan\u2019s Spotify program \u2014 has already been systematically targeted by corporate journalists with censorship demands, often successfully.<\/p>\n

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Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor its Writers: to Bar Critiques of Journalists This new political battle does not break down along left v. right lines. This is an information war waged by corporate media to silence any competition or dissent. Supporters of Mark Meechan aka Count Dankula gather in central London to protest against his […]<\/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":[120,5468,3484,5437,462,30990],"class_list":["post-57066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-criticism","tag-dissent","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-journalism","tag-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57066","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=57066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}