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Title: Journalists Attack the Powerless, Then Self-Victimize to Bar Criticisms of Themselves..Journalists A
Post by: mystery-ak on March 31, 2021, 01:05:56 pm
Journalists Attack the Powerless, Then Self-Victimize to Bar Criticisms of Themselves
Powerful media figures now invoke sexist and racist tropes to cast themselves as so fragile and marginalized that critiques of their work constitute bullying and assault.
   
Glenn Greenwald
Mar 29


The daily newspaper USA Today is the second-most circulated print newspaper in the United States — more than The New York Times and more than double The Washington Post. Only The Wall Street Journal has higher circulation numbers.

On Sunday, the paper published and heavily promoted a repellent article complaining that “defendants accused in the Capitol riot Jan. 6 crowdfund their legal fees online, using popular payment processors and an expanding network of fundraising platforms, despite a crackdown by tech companies.” It provided a road map for snitching on how these private citizens — who are charged with serious felonies by the U.S. Justice Department but as of yet convicted of nothing — are engaged in “a game of cat-and-mouse as they spring from one fundraising tool to another” in order to avoid bans on their ability to raise desperately needed funds to pay their criminal lawyers to mount a vigorous defense.

In other words, the only purpose of the article — headlined: “Insurrection fundraiser: Capitol riot extremists, Trump supporters raise money for lawyer bills online” — was to pressure and shame tech companies to do more to block these criminal defendants from being able to raise funds for their legal fees, and to tattle to tech companies by showing them what techniques these indigent defendants are using to raise money online.

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https://greenwald.substack.com/p/journalists-attack-the-powerless
Title: Re: Journalists Attack the Powerless, Then Self-Victimize to Bar Criticisms of Themselves..Journalis
Post by: mystery-ak on March 31, 2021, 01:06:46 pm
Today’s journalists are often little more than left-wing thugs

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/03/todays_journalists_are_often_little_more_than_leftwing_thugs.html
Title: Re: Journalists Attack the Powerless, Then Self-Victimize to Bar Criticisms of Themselves..Journalis
Post by: txradioguy on March 31, 2021, 01:07:21 pm
Most journalists are under the mistaken impression that Freedom of The Press also mean freedom from criticism or push back from the people they go after.