• Parzivus [any]
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    1 year ago

    Check out that last paragraph

    As is common in France and many other European countries, the French President’s office, known as the Elysée Palace, insisted on checking and “proofreading” all the president’s quotes to be published in this article as a condition of granting the interview. This violates POLITICO’s editorial standards and policy, but we agreed to the terms in order to speak directly with the French president. POLITICO insisted that it cannot deceive its readers and would not publish anything the president did not say. The quotes in this article were all actually said by the president, but some parts of the interview in which the president spoke even more frankly about Taiwan and Europe’s strategic autonomy were cut out by the Elysée.

    • constellation [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      POLITICO insisted that it cannot deceive its readers and would not publish anything the president did not say.

      Glenn Thrush of Politico was exposed seeking Podesta's approval of articles about Clinton. Even Thrush wrote "please don't tell anyone" and "I'm such a hack". The consequences for Thrush? He was hired by the New York Times after the election.

      https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/36329

      • Shoegazer [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Lol so rather than being forced to censor himself, he went out of his way to ask someone to censor him voluntarily?

        • constellation [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          It's more like, he wanted Hillary to win so badly that he decided to blowtorch his reputation as a journalist in favor of secretly joining her campaign.

          Can you believe that once upon a time, we trusted journalists? Today, the idea is simply laughable. They get caught lying all the time.

          Katie Couric revealed she omitted portions of her 2016 interview with Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The self-described "big RBG fan" said she did it to "protect" her hero from criticism. Couric's boss urged her not to cut Ginsburg's problematic remarks about how black athletes who kneeled during the national anthem were showing "contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life, which they probably could not have lived in the places they came from." Couric thought the comments were "unworthy of a crusader for equality," so she left them out.

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        "If the Anglos and Americans so much as send a single ship to Taiwan, I will personally open up a second front for Comrade Xi by invading the UK and nuking New York.

        I will make Ho Chi Mihn look like a fucking peacenik anarchist I swear to God."