Thread by @ggreenwald

I'll be on Fox's MediaBuzz show at 11:40 am ET, on the latest proof of the authenticity of the Hunter Biden docs that Facebook & US media suppressed, as well as USA Today's attempt to prevent people from raising legal funds, part of media's ongoing targeting of private citizens:

https://twitter.com/HowardKurtz/status/1378668264985919490

Columns like this one from Maureen Dowd continue to confuse what the Biden story was about. Nobody responsible cares about Hunter's drug use or consensual adult sex. Only issue was his influence-trading in Ukraine & China & Joe Biden's involvement:

nytimes.com/2021/04/03/opi…

Pretending that the Biden laptop story was about sex or drugs is utterly deceitful. A person's addiction struggles & consensual adult sex is not news. The story was (and is) about financial corruption. And there's *zero* doubt the docs were authentic:

https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1378627354096979969

At this point, the bigger part of the Hunter Biden story -- bigger than what the docs revealed about Bidens' influence-peddling in Ukraine & China -- is how Silicon Valley giants censored the story. Who can justify that election interference & censorship?

theintercept.com/2020/10/15/fac…

In response to the above tweets and article, and my discussion of it on Fox today, I'm seeing that many liberals do not know Twitter and FB joined to suppress discussion of the Hunter Biden reporting. At the time, journalists *cheered* this censorship:

theguardian.com/technology/202…

I really do not understand how one can identify as a "journalist" and think it's a good, healthy, or justifiable event for Silicon Valley giants to use their tech to block pre-election reporting. I get that some found flaws in the reporting, but this?

theguardian.com/technology/202…

The ongoing attempt by journalists at major outlets to place themselves off-limits by claiming it's "abuse" or "harassment" to criticize their work is bizarre, and a total perversion of both journalism and the prevailing power dynamic:

mediaite.com/tv/glenn-green…

These journalists are distorting the classic journalism decree -- comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable -- to turn *themselves* into the victims, into the "afflicted" which the *public* must comfort. They attack private citizens, then self-victimize, using sexist tropes:

Journalists at major outlets wield immense power. They can shape discourse, propagandize the public and ruin people's reputations and lives. Increasingly, they use that power not against power centers but private citizens, and much worse, insist that the real victims are them.

Here's a video excerpt of my discussion this morning about the bizarre and contemptible campaign of journalists with major media outlets to cast *themselves* as marginalized victims in order to render criticisms of their work by the public off-limits: