Glenn Greenwald Resigns From The Intercept

Glenn Greenwald Resigns From The Intercept: GLENN%20GREENWALD%u2019S%20DECISION%20to%20resign%20from%20The%20Intercept%20stems%20from%20a%20fundamental%20disagreement%20over%20the%20role%20of%20editors%20in%20the%20production%20of%20journalism%20and%20the%20nature%20of%20censorship.%20Glenn%20demands%20the%20absolute%20right%20to%20determine%20what%20he%20will%20publish.%20He%20believes%20that%20anyone%20who%20disagrees%20with%20him%20is%20corrupt%2C%20and%20anyone%20who%20presumes%20to%20edit%20his%20words%20is%20a%20censor.%20Thus%2C%20the%20preposterous%20charge%20that%20The%20Intercept%u2019s%20editors%20and%20reporters%2C%20with%20the%20lone%2C%20noble%20exception%20of%20Glenn%20Greenwald%2C%20have%20betrayed%20our%20mission%20to%20engage%20in%20fearless%20investigative%20journalism%20because%20we%20have%20been%20seduced%20by%20the%20lure%20of%20a%20Joe%20Biden%20presidency.%20A%20brief%20glance%20at%20the%20stories%20The%20Intercept%20has%20published%20on%20Biden%20will%20suffice%20to%20refute%20those%20claims.%0A%0AThe%20narrative%20Glenn%20presents%20about%20his%20departure%20is%20teeming%20with%20distortions%20and%20inaccuracies%20%u2014%20all%20of%20them%20designed%20to%20make%20him%20appear%20as%20a%20victim%2C%20rather%20than%20a%20grown%20person%20throwing%20a%20tantrum.%20It%20would%20take%20too%20long%20to%20point%20them%20all%20out%20here%2C%20but%20we%20intend%20to%20correct%20the%20record%20in%20time.%20For%20now%2C%20it%20is%20important%20to%20make%20clear%20that%20our%20goal%20in%20editing%20his%20work%20was%20to%20ensure%20that%20it%20would%20be%20accurate%20and%20fair.%20While%20he%20accuses%20us%20of%20political%20bias%2C%20it%20was%20he%20who%20was%20attempting%20to%20recycle%20the%20dubious%20claims%20of%20a%20political%20campaign%20%u2014%20the%20Trump%20campaign%20%u2014%20and%20launder%20them%20as%20journalism.%0A%0AWe%20have%20the%20greatest%20respect%20for%20the%20journalist%20Glenn%20Greenwald%20used%20to%20be%2C%20and%20we%20remain%20proud%20of%20much%20of%20the%20work%20we%20did%20with%20him%20over%20the%20past%20six%20years.%20It%20is%20Glenn%20who%20has%20strayed%20from%20his%20original%20journalistic%20roots%2C%20not%20The%20Intercept.%0A%0AThe%20defining%20feature%20of%20The%20Intercept%u2019s%20work%20in%20recent%20years%20has%20been%20the%20investigative%20journalism%20that%20came%20out%20of%20painstaking%20work%20by%20our%20staffers%20in%20Washington%2C%20D.C.%2C%20New%20York%2C%20and%20across%20the%20rest%20of%20the%20country.%20It%20is%20the%20staff%20of%20The%20Intercept%20that%20has%20been%20carrying%20out%20our%20investigative%20mission%20%u2014%20a%20mission%20that%20has%20involved%20a%20collaborative%20editing%20process.%0A%0AWe%20have%20no%20doubt%20that%20Glenn%20will%20go%20on%20to%20launch%20a%20new%20media%20venture%20where%20he%20will%20face%20no%20collaboration%20with%20editors%20%u2014%20such%20is%20the%20era%20of%20Substack%20and%20Patreon.%20In%20that%20context%2C%20it%20makes%20good%20business%20sense%20for%20Glenn%20to%20position%20himself%20as%20the%20last%20true%20guardian%20of%20investigative%20journalism%20and%20to%20smear%20his%20longtime%20colleagues%20and%20friends%20as%20partisan%20hacks.%20We%20get%20it.%20But%20facts%20are%20facts%2C%20and%20The%20Intercept%u2019s%20record%20of%20fearless%2C%20rigorous%2C%20independent%20journalism%20speaks%20for%20itself.%0A%0A