No, Ms Kaminska isn't one of the "Journalists for Censorship".
In fact, if I had to guess, rather than censoring she leans toward the very Eastern European response to the Soviet's dezinformatsiya/gaslighting/fake news: exposure and mockery.*
No, in this case the Journalists for Censorship are the New York Times' Sarah Jeong and one Donovan Farley, who lists among his credits Rolling Stone, which may not be the recommendation he thinks it is.
Izabella was just the innocent catalyst for this ramble, by way of one of her links in today's FT Alphaville Further Reading post:
Independents vs mainstream reporters.
The link goes to a substack post by Jesse Singal:
Some Mainstream Outlets Can't Even Perform Basic Newsgathering Functions Anymore
How Andy Ngo's coverage of the Wi Spa controversy humiliated Slate, The Guardian, and other outlets
Because Mr. Singal's substack resides in a gated community I could not access it, so I looked in our link-vault (300,000 constantly refreshing links), our 'draft' posts (101,000 gems which have never seen the light of day) and our posted posts (some 39,000) to see what we had on Andy Ngo and/or Wi Spa.
First up, from the posted category was August 21's "The Algorithm—The media's new business model is propaganda.":
A few weeks ago, in Los Angeles, a brawl broke out on the street in front of a spa in Koreatown. A video had gone viral in late June of a woman berating a staff member of Wi Spa for allegedly allowing a trans woman to use the women’s locker room. The trans woman, the angry customer claimed, had strutted around with her exposed penis in full view of children. A giddy Tucker Carlson showed the video to his national audience, applauding the irate customer for her bravery while voicing not a word of skepticism about her claims, for which there is no evidence and some reason to believe was entirely made up. Soon after, an “anti-pervert protest” took place. Black-clad counterprotesters mobilized to confront the “transphobes.” Physical violence ensued.
This much we know for certain. For other details, we’re forced to rely on the reports of national media outlets. Not so long ago, that would have been a straightforward and relatively non-problematic proposition. But as the field of journalism has been forced to undergo drastic changes in response to the broken revenue model of the news business, that’s no longer the case. Increasingly, relying on mainstream media accounts is like relying on official updates from the U.S. military regarding developments in a war, or press releases from a corporate PR firm describing a company’s recent stellar performance. Some of the facts you’re presented with are probably accurate — maybe even all of them — but you have to start with the assumption that the whole thing is by and large propaganda....MUCH MORE
From the draft posts we have "NYT Reporter Warns Conservative Writer Andy Ngo is a ‘Real Threat’, Should Be Censored on Twitter" on Jeong.
And from the link-vault, it turns out the guy flashing his wee-wee (according to some twitter reports it really is wee) at the kids and claiming transphobic discrimination is registered sex offender (since 2006) Darren Merager. Here's Mr. Ngo writing for the New York Post, September 2:
Sex offending suspect claims transgender harassment in Wi Spa case
*Rather than censoring, the mockery approach is a cross between Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals #'s 13:
The thirteenth rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
with #5
Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage....
Along with the upbeat, borderline joyful stylings of Brian May and Freddie Mercury:
Buddy, you're a boy, make a big noise
Playing in the street
Gonna be a big man someday
You got mud on your face
You big disgrace
Kicking your can
All over the place, singing
We will, we will mock you
We will, we will mock you....
Of course mockery only works if the journo in question is human enough to feel shame, an oftentimes iffy proposition.
Lessons From Communist Eastern Europe On Virtue Signaling and Other Things
