...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
news hound quickly escalated into a censorship war.
What began on Tuesday as an online campaign against Fox News host Tucker Carlson — for "harassing" the Times internet news hound Taylor Lorenz by questioning her claims of victimhood — turned into an attack on Substack by Wednesday evening, as former BuzzFeed news hound Ryan Broderick penned a piece accusing the platform of enabling "harassers" like Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald.
While noting that Substack does actually have a policy against any sort of harassment and that Greenwald didn’t technically harass Lorenz, Broderick argued that "online harassment is a constantly evolving process of boundary testing."
Among those who endorsed his view were UCLA Professor of Information Studies Sarah Roberts — best known for last month’s Twitter tirade denouncing Substack as "dangerous" to journalists — but also Rob Leathern, currently Google’s vice president of Privacy Product Management and a former Facebook official.
Responding to Broderick’s broadside on Thursday, Greenwald noted that journalists have "bizarrely transformed from their traditional role as leading free expression defenders into the most vocal censorship advocates, using their platforms to demand that tech monopolies ban and silence others."
Broderick was fired from BuzzFeed for "serial plagiarism" but now wants to reinvent himself as "the Guardian and Defender of Real Journalism" with a straight face, Greenwald pointed out. He also blasted mainstream journalists as having a "bottomless sense of entitlement and self-regard and fragility" and seeking to create a wo