The Left IS the Establishment and the Establishment is Left HotAir

One of the interesting moves Elon Musk made when he decided to bring in independent journalists to cover the Twitter Files was to tap Left-leaning but non-Establishment journalists to do the work.

The motive behind the move is pretty obvious: by picking liberals, he could avoid the accusation that he was on a Right-wing crusade against the Democrats; by picking independent journalists he could avoid the problem that the Left-wing media is now 100% behind censorship, as long as the censorship is done by them and theirs.

The backlash against those reporters by the Establishment, including or even especially the MSM, has been a wonder to behold. Far from taking any of these journalists or their stories seriously, the MSM and the Democrats have gone on a Jihad against these particular journalists and the idea of independent journalism itself.

Matt Taibbi has been a particular target for the media criticism, perhaps because he has humiliated the MSM the most. Remember his total victory over Michelle Goldberg and Malcolm Gladwell in the Munk Debate, where he and Douglas Murray convinced a very skeptical audience that the MSM was corrupt? It was a total humiliation, taking an audience who mostly trusted the MSM and convincing them in under two hours that the MSM is corrupt.

Taking down two MSM stars in a bit over an hour is enough to piss off the right people. Obviously Glenn Greenwald and Bari Weiss share the same sin: they have pulled back the curtain and shown how corrupt the MSM really is.

With all the hate being spewed at independent journalism and Elon Musk, it is no surprise that the new MSM idea is that these liberal journalists are stalking horses for the populist Right. Rather than addressing the revelations coming from the Twitter Files that the government colluded with social media companies to censor disapproved speech, or that powerful Congressmen were demanding censorship of their critics while threatening the companies with new laws to harm them the MSM is instead accusing the people bearing the bad news of inspiring insurrectiony-types like you and me.

via hotair.com

David Strom.