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Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by nimbius on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:20PM (#24933541)
>If the editor concludes that it's a garbage story dropped a few days before the election in an attempt to influence the election, you don't run it and then "let the readers decide who is right".

Occhams razor:

Glen Greenwald is one of the most respected journalists on the planet. the man is a modern day Cronkite. his character is beyond the pale when it comes to accurate journalism so it begs the question: What is Glen reporting that an editor finds so 'garbage' as to risk their entire future career on censoring this man?

Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by epistasis on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:23PM (#24933611)
After the past few years, I do not share that assessment of Greenwald in the least. Following him on Twitter for a while caused the scales to fall from my eyes. I think he's done some good things in the past, but currently he seems off his rocker, honesty. People can change as they age, and I think he clearly has.
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by kaesar14 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:35PM (#24933820)
Can you elaborate?
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by rodgerd on Thursday October 29, 2020 @05:44PM (#24936414)
His unflagging support for Aaron Coleman doesn't phase you?
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by kaesar14 on Friday October 30, 2020 @08:59PM (#24948227)
Not really. The adult behavior of Democrat politicians bother me far more than the behavior of a 12 year old. I was a bad kid when I was 12. What matters is who we become as adults and what ideals we champion then.
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by SamBam on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:46PM (#24934008)
He has stuck by his claim -- despite the findings of numerous national and international intelligence community investigations and even a Republican senate investigations -- that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election.

And despite his founding of the Intercept in part to investigate abuses by people in power (and his constant criticism that the press never publishes negative articles about people on their side) he has never written a single article critical of any of the abuses of power by the Trump administration. Not a single article critical of anything Trump has done in the past four years. [1]

1. All articles: https://muckrack.com/ggreenwald/articles

Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by kaesar14 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:38PM (#24935482)
It's just good foreign policy to meddle in the internal affairs of your biggest international rivals. Do you think the paranoid and allknowing American government doesn't do the exact same thing? Greenwald's position has ALWAYS been Russiagate was overblown nonsense. And I agree.
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by Nacdor on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:15PM (#24935211)
> He has stuck by his claim -- despite the findings of numerous national and international intelligence community investigations and even a Republican senate investigations -- that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election.

I think you're grossly misrepresenting his opinion on the matter. No one denies that Russia made some half-assed attempts to influence the election. Every country tries to interfere in every election. Hell, we even bragged about it at times: http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.html

Even Biden himself brags about interfering in the affairs of other governments: https://youtu.be/FdHWU5jDQ2w?t=46

But did Russia conspire with the Trump campaign to rig the election or provide dirt on Hillary Clinton? No, and he's right for standing by that claim despite the immense pressure from partisan hacks who have effectively smeared him as some kind of Russian puppet. Your post is evidence of how effective that smear campaign has been.

Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by some-guy on Thursday October 29, 2020 @03:33PM (#24934636)
I followed him on Twitter due to my respect of his earlier journalism work, and I agree completely. I'm not sure he's changed though, and I think that's kind of the problem--all of his tweets stem from holding a grudge the old neoliberal guard of the 2000s onward, while getting some kind of high off of the chaos that the Trump administration introduced into the political establishment (not just to Democrats).
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by epistasis on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:06PM (#24935083)
I think you may be right. People are always a mix, and can produce really great things even if they don't always have the best judgement. Just got to get it right some of the time to make a good contribution.
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by dragonwriter on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:42PM (#24933938)
> Glen Greenwald is one of the most respected journalists on the planet.

I don't think that's all that true. Glenn Greenwald is extremely popular with a particular political faction, which is itself particularly unpopular.

> his character is beyond the pale

Probably not what you intend:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beyond_the_pale

Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by happytoexplain on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:37PM (#24933852)
>Glen Greenwald is one of the most respected journalists on the planet. the man is a modern day Cronkite. his character is beyond [reproach]

This isn't my experience at all, at least not for many years (speaking both in terms of my own opinion of his writing and the apparent opinions of others).

Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by stumblers on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:27PM (#24933674)
I think Glen Greenwald was one of the more respected journalists but isn't any longer. I think he either has crossed over or will soon cross over into Seymour Hersh territory (sadly). Mr. Hersh was an amazing investigative journalist that made a huge difference in how we can keep gov't accountable but has ended up (largely) a discredited hack, which is a shame.
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by yasp on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:28PM (#24933699)
What discredited Sy Hersh?
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by ceejayoz on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:47PM (#24934027)
https://www.vox.com/2015/5/11/8584473/seymour-hersh-osama-bi...

> In recent years, however, Hersh has appeared increasingly to have gone off the rails. His stories, often alleging vast and shadowy conspiracies, have made startling — and often internally inconsistent — accusations, based on little or no proof beyond a handful of anonymous "officials."

Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by warkdarrior on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:48PM (#24934033)
From Wikipedia:

"Critics have described Hersh as a conspiracy theorist, in particular for his rejection of official claims regarding the killing of Osama Bin Laden and his rejection that the Assad regime used chemical weapons on Syrian civilians."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#Criticism_and_co...

Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by tomp on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:41PM (#24935521)
How come that people still take accusations of "conspiracy theorist" seriously, when so many have proven to be true (e.g. "NSA is spying on everybody" and "elite rich people pedophile ring")??
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by ptmcc on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:24PM (#24933623)
> his character is beyond the pale

I don't think this means what you think it means. You just insulted his character, not praised it.

Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by mikeyouse on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:27PM (#24933683)
Probably meant beyond reproach - but yep.
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by brians on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:29PM (#24933713)
How come Marcy Wheeler and others have so many criticisms of the accuracy and sourcing of his journalism?
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Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by starkd on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:27PM (#24933672)
please, stop with the insults. This is unseemly.
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Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by xref on Thursday October 29, 2020 @03:00PM (#24934196)
From your posts in this thread it’s obvious you’re not commenting in good faith, and again here have made a strawman. There’s nobody here arguing against open debate.

The Intercept decided an article fell below their journalistic standards and chose not to publish it. That only leaves ninety-million other places for Glen to publish it, and by his own admission he has this right.

Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by starkd on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:07PM (#24935100)
That's a big charge to say someone's not commenting in good faith. Kind of insulting. I'm commenting the way I see it. Suppressing a story is kind of the very antithesis of open debate. And its not just the Intercept, this is a pattern across like-minded partisan media. I understand you don't like the story - which is fine - but, please, just don't say I'm operating in bad faith.
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by watwut on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:45PM (#24935580)
I don't know. I respected him highly after Snowden and I still think he handled it greatly. But then, I lost a lot of that respect mostly due to reading his tweet feed.

It mostly kind of ceased to be worth following and at times he seemed to be in perpetual rage combined with sort of "I wish this to be true so it must be".