Thread by @ggreenwald

Congratulations on using your new journalistic platform to try to pressure tech companies to terminate the ability of impoverished criminal defendants to raise money for their legal defense from online donations. You're well on your way upward in this industry for sure:

https://twitter.com/brenna__smith/status/1376205111777693705

Not exaggerating: seems like 50% of journalism these days is finding new ways to pressure and shame tech companies to silence, censor and vanish people from the internet disliked by journalists. Their main cause is not transparency but internet censorship

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journali…

If you ever find yourself confounded, frustrated or repelled by the behavior of mainstream journalists, just read this relatively short essay by Freddie deBoer which really does explain it all as perfectly and succinctly as anything could:

freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/its-all-just…

See also: "Trust in traditional media has declined to an all-time low....For the first time ever, fewer than half of all Americans have trust in traditional media...56% of Americans agree with the statement that "Journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people."

A society in which the population trusts journalists is important. Democracy needs that.

But that's the opposite of what is happening. And they know that. And - with Trump gone - they know the only pillar holding up the collapsing edifice has vanished.

axios.com/media-trust-cr…