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  Corporate Media's Double Standard: They Attack Whomever They Want, But You Cannot Criticize Them My responses to The Washington Post's article and Daily Beast's questions about accusations from The Intercept that I have "endangered" their writers. Glenn Greenwald May 21 450 425 The Intercept ’s live-blogging reporter Robert Mackey, narrating a 20-minute video maligning journalists Julio Rosas, Jorge Ventura, and other journalists who report on Antifa protests on the ground. On Monday,  The Washington Pos t ’s   media reporter Paul Farhi contacted me to say that he had spoken with numerous editors and journalists at  The Intercept , who voiced to him a wide range of personal and professional accusations about me. This was all in response to criticisms I had expressed about two recent  Intercept  stories. On Friday morning,  The Post   published  Farhi's article about their attacks on me. Among other things, that  Post  article feat...

  Vaccines: truth, lies, and controversy Sebastian Rushworth M.D. Peter Gotzsche is no crank. Rather the opposite, in fact. In the world of evidence based medicine, he is one of the great heavyweights. He was a founding member of the Cochrane collaboration, is a professor of clinical research methodology at the university of Copenhagen, and has had his work repeatedly published in all the leading medical journals. His blunt honesty and willingness to speak truth to power, even in the face of personal consequences, makes him one of my personal heroes. One year ago, Gotzsche came out with a book called ” Vaccines: truth, lies, and controversy ”. Considering how hot the topic of vaccines is, you would expect the book to have be selling at a furious rate ever since it came out. Instead, it languishes in obscurity. The problem, in my estimation, is that it is too brutally honest, and that it therefore pleases no-one No-one wants a balanced take. Most of the people who write and talk abo...

  One of the biggest controversies on the contemporary left today concerns the relationship between leftism and liberalism. People often use the word  liberalism   to refer to a location on the political spectrum: to the left of conservatism, but to the right of, say, democratic socialism (or even robust economic populism). In that sense, leftists are, by definition, not liberals. But the word   liberalism  can also refer to the school of thought that embraces classical liberal rights, such as freedom of speech. Are leftists liberals in that sense of the word? Do they embrace classical liberal rights? They are often accused of being insufficiently committed to freedom of speech, at least when it gets in the way of other left-wing goals. The example most often cited to support this accusation is cancel culture, which, some argue, is a leftist phenomenon that has a chilling effect on the free exchange of ideas. We’ve both   chimed   in before to   a...