The United States media has increasingly lost the confidence and trust of the American people over the past twenty years, in part as a result of major journalistic scandals such as the debunked Rolling Stone magazine gang rape story at the University of Virginia, the support for war with Iraq in 2003 over non-existent weapons of mass destruction, and legendary journalist Dan Rather’s “fake but accurate” reporting on President Bush’s military service that ended Mr. Rather’s multi-decade career at CBS. Certainly, the media environment in 2020 and 2021 has become increasingly toxic, with even prominent senior journalists reflexively (and somewhat hysterically) responding to any criticism of the media as “attacks on democracy.” Consider three interesting and controversial articles by independent left-liberal journalists:
- Glenn Greenwald: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-biden-censored
- Matt Taibbi: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/temporary-coronavirus-censorship
- Glenn Greenwald (with a linked follow-up by Leighton Akio Woodhouse): https://greenwald.substack.com/p/to-protect-fauci-the-washington-post
All three reporters (Greenwald, Taibbi, and Woodhouse) are independent, non-corporate journalists whose work over the past two decades has been praised by the legacy media (major newspapers, CBS/NBC/ABC/CNN/MSNBC). Despite their award-winning records, all three are now banned from appearances on legacy media platforms, save for Fox News. Over the past year, Greenwald, Taibbi, and Woodhouse have been lambasted as right-wing reactionaries, white supremacists, and homophobes, despite the fact that all three are life-long supporters of the American Left, two of the three are not white, and the third, Greenwald, is openly gay. Further, each has lost significant career opportunities for daring to question the legacy media, as Greenwalds reporting on the Hunter Biden story led to his firing from The Intercept newsmagazine (which he co-founded) and both Taibbi and Woodhouse have been disassociated from their former employers, The Atlantic newsmagazine and The Nation newsmagazine. These obviously untrue attacks on all three journalists by powerful media figures such as Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow points to a serious problem in our media (and social media) system that has enormous ramifications for the future of American democracy. Specifically, the attempt by legacy media to spin a web of lies to protect individuals favored by the corporate elite and attack those disfavored by the corporate elite leads to direct manipulation of the American political system by that media.
For this bonus assignment, please read these three articles, then, in your own words, offer your viewpoint on the arguments being made. Are these three journalists correct or incorrect about the existence and causes of legacy media censorship and why? Please avoid direct quotes, as I want you to explain your viewpoint in your own words.
Your submission should be at least 750 words (roughly 3 pages).
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