Why I'm Resigning From The Intercept
www.kenklippenstein.com
...and starting something new

TLDR The Intercept is run by a bunch of suits who want to suppress critique of Israel or the billionaire class

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    7 months ago

    While the Intercept now has one poor copy editor for the entire website, it employs two staff attorneys, as well as a legal fellow, a chief strategy officer, a chief digital officer, a business coordinator, a senior director of development and an associate director of development, a product manager, a senior director of operations, a chief of staff, and a chief operating officer. And for the first time in The Intercept’s history, as of Monday, the new editor-in-chief now answers to the CEO.

    Sounds like a terminal case of administratium.

    • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      Part of me thinks any normal-ish decent-ish journalist who gets into media is exposed to “the machine” they either get ground down by it or they brake parts of themselves to fit into it. It’s a bummer

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        chomsky-yes-honey and party-parenti both comment on this sort of filter in their respective works on media criticism

            • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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              7 months ago

              You almost forget who's on there just because its so many fucking people.

              The fact that there genuinely is an elite pedophile cabal and Q somehow manages to target only 1 of the people involved and that one accidentally is so frustrating.

              • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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                7 months ago

                Yes! That is the most frustrating thing about Q "pedophile cabal conspiracies." They make up all this crazy bullshit, instead of what we actually know that's right in the open and that no one has investigated any further since Epstein got Epsteined

      • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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        7 months ago

        Ben Norton has talked about this in the past I think. Journalists either suck up to the machine and obey so they get promoted, or they keep their integrity and struggle to find work.

  • Vampire [any]
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    7 months ago

    And when I say journalism, I’m not talking about “democracy dying in darkness” or “holding power to account” or any of that sanctimonious bullshit. I’m talking about being a thorn in the side of our self-appointed betters.

    based

  • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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    7 months ago

    Ken has some lib brain worms, but he is a well-meaning guy who has done some great reporting.

  • bleepbloopbop [they/them]
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    7 months ago

    I’m going after the journalistic priesthood, like Judith Miller’s editor for her bogus Iraq WMD stories, whose punishment was being made editor-in-chief of ProPublica (salary: $480,000) and chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board.

    waow-based

    Apparently this is referring to Stephen Engelberg. Google shows mostly glowing profiles of him, and some samples of his work, including his byline on a NYT article from '89 entitled IRAQ SAID TO STUDY BIOLOGICAL ARMS

  • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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    7 months ago

    Him and Greenwald being all buddy about this is raising some red flags. But good for him otherwise

  • homhom9000 [she/her]
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    7 months ago

    Was it Lee Fang that also wrote for the intercept and said so many rotten things during the BLM protest?

    I always liked Ken, with a side eye, but hated he wrote for the intercept. Good change.

  • Vampire [any]
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    7 months ago

    TLDR The Intercept is run by a bunch of suits who want to suppress anything critical of Israel or the billionaire class

    Disinformation. Article doesn't say anything about suppressing criticism of Israel.

    • https://theintercept.com/2024/04/30/gaza-israel-palestine-cable-news-poll/

    • https://theintercept.com/2024/04/26/deconstructed-gaza-doctor-medical-mission/

    • https://theintercept.com/2024/04/24/intercepted-biden-israel-middle-east-war/

    • https://theintercept.com/2024/04/20/iran-israel-world-war-iii/

    • https://theintercept.com/2024/04/14/israel-iran-drag-us-war-netanyahu-biden/

    • https://theintercept.com/2024/01/26/palestinians-biden-genocide-lawsuit-ccr/

    • https://theintercept.com/2024/01/10/biden-israel-genocide-lawsuit/

    • https://theintercept.com/2024/02/01/gaza-biden-genocide-lawsuit-ruling/

    • https://theintercept.com/2024/01/31/israel-west-bank-hospital-raid/

    • POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG [none/use name]
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      7 months ago

      Factcheck: Iran is not in Israel. 5 pinnochios.

      Anyways I have removed the adminittedly broad "anything" word from my post.