October 13, 2018 By Monica Showalter
Vox, the smarmy Obama hipster "explainer" news site that purports to know how the world works better than you, has been found shilling Chinese political propaganda. The news was first spotted by Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit at the Washington Free Beacon, and though the piece was written several weeks ago, it's definitely eye-catching. Vox, founded by Ezra Klein in 2011 at the height of the Obama era, for all its pretenses to being modern and hip and Millennial, is really just a shill for the old gray men of Beijing. Here's what the Free Beacon found:............
.............this isn't the first time Vox's founder has shown such slovenly journalistic ethics. Klein, after all, is the founder of JournoList, the collusion group of journalists and Obama administration operatives who coordinated talking points to enhance the Obama administration's "narratives," and probably should be investigated for anti-trust violations, given that the news agencies were supposedly competitors. You know that if drug companies did what Klein did, they'd have the regulators all over them. Klein did that while he was at the Washington Post, with no consequences, given that he was their bright young man at the time............... Read more
Vox, the smarmy Obama hipster "explainer" news site that purports to know how the world works better than you, has been found shilling Chinese political propaganda. The news was first spotted by Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit at the Washington Free Beacon, and though the piece was written several weeks ago, it's definitely eye-catching. Vox, founded by Ezra Klein in 2011 at the height of the Obama era, for all its pretenses to being modern and hip and Millennial, is really just a shill for the old gray men of Beijing. Here's what the Free Beacon found:............
.............this isn't the first time Vox's founder has shown such slovenly journalistic ethics. Klein, after all, is the founder of JournoList, the collusion group of journalists and Obama administration operatives who coordinated talking points to enhance the Obama administration's "narratives," and probably should be investigated for anti-trust violations, given that the news agencies were supposedly competitors. You know that if drug companies did what Klein did, they'd have the regulators all over them. Klein did that while he was at the Washington Post, with no consequences, given that he was their bright young man at the time............... Read more
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