<story><title>My Resignation from the Intercept</title><url>https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggggtez</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s also the kind of story that can &lt;i&gt;break&lt;/i&gt; someone&amp;#x27;s journalistic career.&lt;p&gt;Even Fox News wouldn&amp;#x27;t run the story because it wasn&amp;#x27;t supported by facts.&lt;p&gt;And last I heard, there &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; has been no concrete evidence of wrongdoing. Tucker Carlson claims that his evidence &amp;quot;got lost in the mail&amp;quot;. In the age of the internet, they didn&amp;#x27;t snap any photos of this so-called proof?&lt;p&gt;There is no &amp;quot;there&amp;quot; there. Just a bunch of internet sleuths with MS paint red circles and theories about deep states. And your comment falls into this category.</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>Glenn had a 3 hour long conversation on a podcast a few days ago where he laid out the problem really well:&lt;p&gt;Journalists have essentially become socialites.  They don&amp;#x27;t want to publish articles that will rock the boat, because the people they are friends with are the ones that own that boat, invite them to parties, and are a part of their friend groups.&lt;p&gt;The reporting around this story has been absolutely &lt;i&gt;unbelievable&lt;/i&gt; to me.  This story seems like the type of thing that would normally make peoples&amp;#x27; entire journalistic career, and yet the journalists, the people who are supposed to be a part of our protection and sense-making system are actively trying to suppress it.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s actually surreal to see this happening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prawn</author><text>Further, the NY Post struggled to find in-house writers that would put their name to the story because they weren&amp;#x27;t confident about the story&amp;#x27;s credibility. Of the two bylines, one found out after the fact.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;new-york-post-hunter-biden.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;new-york-p...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>My Resignation from the Intercept</title><url>https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggggtez</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s also the kind of story that can &lt;i&gt;break&lt;/i&gt; someone&amp;#x27;s journalistic career.&lt;p&gt;Even Fox News wouldn&amp;#x27;t run the story because it wasn&amp;#x27;t supported by facts.&lt;p&gt;And last I heard, there &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; has been no concrete evidence of wrongdoing. Tucker Carlson claims that his evidence &amp;quot;got lost in the mail&amp;quot;. In the age of the internet, they didn&amp;#x27;t snap any photos of this so-called proof?&lt;p&gt;There is no &amp;quot;there&amp;quot; there. Just a bunch of internet sleuths with MS paint red circles and theories about deep states. And your comment falls into this category.</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>Glenn had a 3 hour long conversation on a podcast a few days ago where he laid out the problem really well:&lt;p&gt;Journalists have essentially become socialites.  They don&amp;#x27;t want to publish articles that will rock the boat, because the people they are friends with are the ones that own that boat, invite them to parties, and are a part of their friend groups.&lt;p&gt;The reporting around this story has been absolutely &lt;i&gt;unbelievable&lt;/i&gt; to me.  This story seems like the type of thing that would normally make peoples&amp;#x27; entire journalistic career, and yet the journalists, the people who are supposed to be a part of our protection and sense-making system are actively trying to suppress it.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s actually surreal to see this happening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fredguth</author><text>If you read Greenwald’s piece, you will understand why he disagrees with you. I, personally, credit his ethics more than I credit TheIntercept’s editor and this is why I immediately subscribed his substack.</text></comment>