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Ken Klippenstein: Why I'm Resigning From The Intercept (www.kenklippenstein.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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

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[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 70 points 6 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@hexbear.net 45 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago

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

[-] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago

It really is a genuine downer that chomsky is a sex criminal

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

Took me a second, then i remembered hes on the flight logs epstein

[-] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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@hexbear.net 13 points 6 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 6 points 6 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@hexbear.net 51 points 6 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@hexbear.net 48 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago

You just have to respect the fact that he is also a great poster.

[-] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

His lawyer is a superior poster to him, and that's funny. Although his newsletter bit will never not be funny

[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

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[-] bleepbloopbop@hexbear.net 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago

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

[-] homhom9000@hexbear.net 19 points 6 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.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

sounds like Lee Fang. here he is doing a guest spot on the theme of "Why doesn't Black Lives Matter care about black on black crime?" with Meghan Murphy whoever the fuck that is

:picard: just shameful crap that's so liberal idealist it becomes blatantly racist