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[-] wahwahwah@hexbear.net 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I dunno, I’ve heard about his history (sexpt in Russia, Twitter files bs, the BLM chapo episode) and he seems like a dipshit who happens to sometimes be right. I’m tired of media personalities. All of them.

[-] davel@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

He (and Greenwald) are solid journalists, but they’re also libs. Importantly, they’re not partisan hacks, which is why they get attacked by whichever party happens to be in power at any given moment.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

Importantly, they’re not partisan hacks

Idk I've seen a lot from Greenwald where he is specifically against the left. They seem very "partisan"

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

I think “partisan” in this context means not genuflecting to either Republicans or Democrats.

[-] davel@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

👆 He’s a civil libertarian who, on a fuzzy, intuitive level, tries to fight for the “little guy” over those in power regardless of the party in power, but without having a coherent class consciousness.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

He (and Greenwald) are solid journalists,

doubt

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well what does that matter? Both parties are servile bootlickers of capital who think leftists should be removed from society, one party just thinks it should be done through executions

The first thing I see when I look up Taibbi is some article where he's handwringing about people 'being unwilling to explore different points of view post Trump' (lmao), and Greggy G's twitter feed has his most recent tweet where he dumps on some journo for following the state department line vis a vis Israel (cool), and 2 tweets back from that where he seems to be going after a judge Lula appointed because a podcaster (who defended the existence of a Brazilian Nazi party, invited on stereotypical gamers, and generally seemed to be 'problematic') thought the judge was shit (absolutely not cool)

Being 'non partisan' in this shithole hardly matters when both parties serve the same interests anyway.

[-] davel@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

Being non-partisan isn’t a panacea to be sure. All it means is the potential to speak truth to power regardless of which party is in power, though it hardly guarantees it. And you’re right that, because he’s a liberal, his analysis is still going to be captured by liberal ideology. But his actual facts at least are generally fact-based.

There are virtually no old-school investigative journalists/muckrakers who are actual leftists, so I have to take it where I can get it. Investigative journalism is slow & expensive, and corporate media 1) has become much more party-stratified over time, ever since cable news became a thing, and 2) they have mostly abandoned investigative journalism for budgetary reasons, because online ads don’t bring in much. Leftists have to run on shoestring budgets, so it’s no surprise that there isn’t much leftist investigative journalism to be found. All I can think of off the top of my head are Aaron Maté and Ben Norton, and I’m not sure to what extent they’d claim to be explicitly leftist.

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

That's somewhat fair, though I'd still steer clear of Greenwald or at least be highly critical of anything he throws out, he still tends to be a hack when it comes to leftists (going back to the Lula appointed judge thing).

Leftists have to run on shoestring budgets, so it’s no surprise that there isn’t much leftist investigative journalism to be found

Well yes, that and corporate media not wanting to give a platform to actual leftists for obvious reasons. You might have some luck with PSL published items like Liberation News, though as noted it's very rarely investigative journalism and mostly just analysis of existing conflict and articles.

[-] davel@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'd still steer clear of Greenwald

He’s fallen off my map ever since he switched to his TV format; who has the time? He’s not really doing investigative reporting anymore.

You might have some luck with PSL

The bulk of what I read/hear/watch are leftist analyses. Fortunately there are many (several of which I pay)!

[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

It's embarrassing that we have people on this site defending these shitheads as "solid journalists" and not immediately getting dunked on.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

the sexpat stuff was based on satirical articles and has been debunked by talking with the people involved

but I agree he's a dipshit on the other stuff alone

[-] wahwahwah@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago
[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure there are photos in some cases. eXile, as far as I can tell, was a shitty paper run by shitty people.

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