It's difficult to keep all of the threads straight! Ames has a good memory and keeps grudges for a long time. Maybe forever.
Ames and John Dolan do an excellent podcast https://www.patreon.com/radiowarnerd
You can find links to episodes they've made freely available in the tweets https://twitter.com/TheWarNerd
Ames and Levine are mad that Omidyar pays Greenwald and Scahill handsomely.
The rivalry and petty tweeting between them (it's mostly Ames vs... everyone) is sad, I enjoy the journalistic output of Scahill AND Ames and I think they should be friends!
It's very good practise at a news organisation for investors to have zero editorial control. This is especially necessary for investigative journalism, since the main aim is to dig dirt.
The Intercept doesn't have this - Pierre Omidyar has influence over what gets published. That makes it difficult (probably impossible) to publish stories that reflect Omidyar or his business interests in a negative light.
For contrast, note how Pando has publically attacked its own investor Peter Thiel over his secret funding of the Hulh Hogan/Gawker lawsuit.
They started pushing so much fiction and outright lies masquerading as journalism that I have permanently linked them & all associates to /dev/null.
Also, let us not forget that when the Snowden saga was breaking out, Paul Carr, Levine and the rest went into a frenzy where they attacked Assange and Snowden non-stop, trying to downplay the incident and also saying that it wasn't even something newsworthy. The biggest news story in _decades_ was staring them in the face, and these geniuses didn't have the intuition to see it.
I wish I'd kept the recordings of their online radio broadcasts, Paul Carr especially would run to find a rock to hide under.
Bleh^2.