Your characterization of the Intercept is spot on, they started repeating the same tropes found in the “msm”. I used to read TI for opinions different from my own and I liked that they took a stance different from the stuff that is force fed down our throats on any tv program.
During the Russia hoax I noticed a palpable change in reporting and it turned me off.
We should be questioning everything we hear from any source. Healthy skepticism is a great combatant against group think.
Excellent defense. Reed & Co. deserve all the criticism you have dished out. They turned The Intercept into a hyper-partisan rag. The shitlibs may not be moved but I assure you that those who are truly independent see the truth. The fact that your readers departed The Intercept for your Substack proves it. Your journalist critics hate you because you took the risks they were too scared to take but you actually succeeded. To you, much respect! (PS — Please come to LA and sign my copy of your latest book, Securing Democracy. Drinks on me!)
Here's the thing: I'm subscribed to you because you're one of the only SANE journalists who has the courage to speak the TRUTH that still exists. Those "journalists" live in an insane bubble-world where speech is violence, sanity is insanity, and there are 554 genders.
Would you really want to be associated with them? Have no credibility like them? Of course not.
No one takes them seriously because they are unserious lunatics. Keep doing what you do, Glenn, you're doing important work and they know it.
I immediately Switched to Substack (Greenwald and Taibbi) after his resignation and my detective work (not too hard) to find out the Betsy Reed was earning some $300k ...So when I get the request for donations (and threats to cut off “free” access) I do the old Robert DeNiro Taxi Driver routine “ are you talking to me”
Glenn, I am a recent subscriber and only recently knew of you on an appearance with Tucker Carlson. What I heard from you that night was “balls and strikes”. I then got on your email list and got a chance to read some of your stuff. I liked it and put my money to those that I support. The personal attacks you are getting are no different from the article you wrote about the NYC mayoral race a couple weeks ago. You seem to be taking the punches well and like your moxie punching back. I am proud to support your work and will continue to do so. Stand tall.
I actually saw the shooting in Kenosha happen live while watching a livestream. Then I gathered all the pictures and videos I could before they could be taken down or edited. The narrative that Kyle Rittenhouse murdered two innocent people and crippled a nice, upstanding member of society is bullshit.
This is the consequence of raising generations on participation trophies and endless flattery. Add in 4 years of indoctrination, not education, by the leftist ideologues posing as professors and voila!, a self-righteous, navel-gazing younger cohort, unable to think beyond their ideological restraint and all-important feelings (of course, the feelings of others never crosses their enfeebled minds) is unleashed on the world.
The horrifying part, as you mention, is that these spoiled, pampered individuals attacking the powerless in our nation on behalf of the powerful, actually believe they are creating a better world. Seething hatred is the proper response to such individuals who so cavalierly ruin the lives of others.
"Depicting critics of liberal orthodoxies as mentally ill, a rage-driven bully, and a shadow of their former selves is a long-time tactic of guardians of establishment liberalism to expel dissidents from their in-group circles." This tactic has made it to the far corners of our culture. Last fall, urged my county bar association (in the Northeast Kingdom county of Caledonia, of all places) to pass a resolution supporting the First Amendment. It was a straight forward, non partisan resolution. I was called a "lunatic" "crazy", told to get off my computer and go lie down--with every other attorney in the county copied. This spring, when I suggested we have a county CLE on professionalism, I was subjected to a rant by an attorney (copying everyone) that I was, among other things, a bully. Personal emails from these same people said they were "worried" about my mental health, that it was "sad" how my professional skills have deteriorated. My sin? I am a Republican, vice chair of the Vermont Republican party. Bigotry is alive and well, and even celebrated, by the professional class.
The personal attacks on Glenn remind me of the old Soviet Union. If anyone did not enthusiastically recognize the superiority of the Workers Paradise they were obviously mentally ill. For their own good they were sent to Mental Hospitals where they were never heard from again.
There is a reason that Glenn Greenwald's subscribers span the political spectrum from the far left to the far right, and why most of the time those who comment here mostly agree with Glenn and each other (at least on the central issues in his articles). Unlike almost everyone else in media today Glenn's writing is based upon principals consistently applied regardless of ideological politics.
The attacks on Glenn by those at the Intercept and other left wing media outlets reveal much about them. It's clear they do not apply principals consistently. They treat their "journalism" more as a religion, and Glenn as an apostate. When the media, as the Intercept has done, sees their role as advocacy rather than as searching for and publishing facts and truth regardless of whose ox is gored, they become mere partisan hacks.
Your characterization of the Intercept is spot on, they started repeating the same tropes found in the “msm”. I used to read TI for opinions different from my own and I liked that they took a stance different from the stuff that is force fed down our throats on any tv program.
During the Russia hoax I noticed a palpable change in reporting and it turned me off.
We should be questioning everything we hear from any source. Healthy skepticism is a great combatant against group think.
Excellent defense. Reed & Co. deserve all the criticism you have dished out. They turned The Intercept into a hyper-partisan rag. The shitlibs may not be moved but I assure you that those who are truly independent see the truth. The fact that your readers departed The Intercept for your Substack proves it. Your journalist critics hate you because you took the risks they were too scared to take but you actually succeeded. To you, much respect! (PS — Please come to LA and sign my copy of your latest book, Securing Democracy. Drinks on me!)
Here's the thing: I'm subscribed to you because you're one of the only SANE journalists who has the courage to speak the TRUTH that still exists. Those "journalists" live in an insane bubble-world where speech is violence, sanity is insanity, and there are 554 genders.
Would you really want to be associated with them? Have no credibility like them? Of course not.
No one takes them seriously because they are unserious lunatics. Keep doing what you do, Glenn, you're doing important work and they know it.
I immediately Switched to Substack (Greenwald and Taibbi) after his resignation and my detective work (not too hard) to find out the Betsy Reed was earning some $300k ...So when I get the request for donations (and threats to cut off “free” access) I do the old Robert DeNiro Taxi Driver routine “ are you talking to me”
In a war between Greenwald and The Intercept, The Intercept is doomed.
Holy cow. The Intercept is going to need another $1M a year just to cover the cost of burn ointment.
Glenn, I am a recent subscriber and only recently knew of you on an appearance with Tucker Carlson. What I heard from you that night was “balls and strikes”. I then got on your email list and got a chance to read some of your stuff. I liked it and put my money to those that I support. The personal attacks you are getting are no different from the article you wrote about the NYC mayoral race a couple weeks ago. You seem to be taking the punches well and like your moxie punching back. I am proud to support your work and will continue to do so. Stand tall.
I actually saw the shooting in Kenosha happen live while watching a livestream. Then I gathered all the pictures and videos I could before they could be taken down or edited. The narrative that Kyle Rittenhouse murdered two innocent people and crippled a nice, upstanding member of society is bullshit.
This is the consequence of raising generations on participation trophies and endless flattery. Add in 4 years of indoctrination, not education, by the leftist ideologues posing as professors and voila!, a self-righteous, navel-gazing younger cohort, unable to think beyond their ideological restraint and all-important feelings (of course, the feelings of others never crosses their enfeebled minds) is unleashed on the world.
The horrifying part, as you mention, is that these spoiled, pampered individuals attacking the powerless in our nation on behalf of the powerful, actually believe they are creating a better world. Seething hatred is the proper response to such individuals who so cavalierly ruin the lives of others.
Thank you Glenn. You are increasingly one of the few journalists who I read. And trust. Yours is the good fight.
I might not always agree with Glenn, but yet again he shows that he's a clear thinker who can keep his eye on the ball. Great article.
Ignore them, Glenn. With reasonable people, your reputation has only SOARED.
"Depicting critics of liberal orthodoxies as mentally ill, a rage-driven bully, and a shadow of their former selves is a long-time tactic of guardians of establishment liberalism to expel dissidents from their in-group circles." This tactic has made it to the far corners of our culture. Last fall, urged my county bar association (in the Northeast Kingdom county of Caledonia, of all places) to pass a resolution supporting the First Amendment. It was a straight forward, non partisan resolution. I was called a "lunatic" "crazy", told to get off my computer and go lie down--with every other attorney in the county copied. This spring, when I suggested we have a county CLE on professionalism, I was subjected to a rant by an attorney (copying everyone) that I was, among other things, a bully. Personal emails from these same people said they were "worried" about my mental health, that it was "sad" how my professional skills have deteriorated. My sin? I am a Republican, vice chair of the Vermont Republican party. Bigotry is alive and well, and even celebrated, by the professional class.
Love you, Glenn! Voltaire — 'It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.'
The personal attacks on Glenn remind me of the old Soviet Union. If anyone did not enthusiastically recognize the superiority of the Workers Paradise they were obviously mentally ill. For their own good they were sent to Mental Hospitals where they were never heard from again.
There is a reason that Glenn Greenwald's subscribers span the political spectrum from the far left to the far right, and why most of the time those who comment here mostly agree with Glenn and each other (at least on the central issues in his articles). Unlike almost everyone else in media today Glenn's writing is based upon principals consistently applied regardless of ideological politics.
The attacks on Glenn by those at the Intercept and other left wing media outlets reveal much about them. It's clear they do not apply principals consistently. They treat their "journalism" more as a religion, and Glenn as an apostate. When the media, as the Intercept has done, sees their role as advocacy rather than as searching for and publishing facts and truth regardless of whose ox is gored, they become mere partisan hacks.