Greenwald is definitely a leftoid, but he's a leftoid with actual principles and convictions, which is almost unheard of among the American left, 99.99% of whom will throw whatever ideology they claim to hold dear out the window to support literally anyone with the letter "D" next to their name.
Which, incidentally, makes him a Grade A drama generator. And, as such, one of my favorite journos too.
He also managed to get on Bolsonaro's personal hit list by reporting on him these past few years lol, yet still continues to live in Brazil with his husband.
Making all of this worse, The Intercept — while gradually excluding the co-founders from any role in its editorial mission or direction, and making one choice after the next to which I vocally objected as a betrayal of our core mission — continued publicly to trade on my name in order to raise funds for journalism it knew I did not support. It purposely allowed the perception to fester that I was the person responsible for its journalistic mistakes in order to ensure that blame for those mistakes was heaped on me rather than the editors who were consolidating control and were responsible for them.
The most egregious, but by no means only, example of exploiting my name to evade responsibility was the Reality Winner debacle. As The New York Times recently reported, that was a story in which I had no involvement whatsoever. While based in Brazil, I was never asked to work on the documents which Winner sent to our New York newsroom with no request that any specific journalist work on them. I did not even learn of the existence of that document until very shortly prior to its publication. The person who oversaw, edited and controlled that story was Betsy Reed, which was how it should be given the magnitude and complexity of that reporting and her position as editor-in-chief.
Anyway, it amuses me that it's about ethics in journalism, which makes it sound like Glenn is a GamerGater. Which he is, of course.
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3 Pepperglue 2021-02-08
A pretty apt name, I must say.
2 Eternal_Mr_Bones 2021-02-08
Glen Greenwald is unironically my favorite journalist. He's a great example of what happens when you report the news with any ounce of nuance:
Now I don't agree with either, but you'd think being gay and married to a socialist would get you a free pass to not be called a rightoid.
3 CeetheAndSope 2021-02-08
Greenwald is definitely a leftoid, but he's a leftoid with actual principles and convictions, which is almost unheard of among the American left, 99.99% of whom will throw whatever ideology they claim to hold dear out the window to support literally anyone with the letter "D" next to their name.
Which, incidentally, makes him a Grade A drama generator. And, as such, one of my favorite journos too.
1 fujiste 2021-02-08
He also managed to get on Bolsonaro's personal hit list by reporting on him these past few years lol, yet still continues to live in Brazil with his husband.
2 tiptopkitkat 2021-02-08
Glen sometimes seems to get something right.
1 UnheardIdentity 2021-02-08
Glen might be many things, like tedious, annoying, and dumb, but at least he's honest. I respect that.
1 Osterion 2021-02-08
He's stuck to his retarded beliefs while his supporters started loving drones and spying as soon as GW left the whitehouse
1 respaaaaaj 2021-02-08
Glen ranting about journalistic ethics after burning reality winner will never stop being funny to me
3 itsnotmyfault 2021-02-08
Anyway, it amuses me that it's about ethics in journalism, which makes it sound like Glenn is a GamerGater. Which he is, of course.
1 General_Insomnia 2021-02-08
Always has been.
1 911roofer 2021-02-08
Journalism is dead. We killed it.
1 __TIE_Guy 2021-02-08
Great fucking post.
1 JeanPeuplu 2021-02-08
I can't believe I'm agreeing with Greenwald on something. Good read.