4 ms·

This is simply garbage. I used to enjoy some of his writing, back in the Exile days, but the moment he & Mark Ames went to work with Paul Carr / NSFWCorp / Pand

This is simply garbage. I used to enjoy some of his writing, back in the Exile days, but the moment he & Mark Ames went to work with Paul Carr / NSFWCorp / Pando everything went to shit. 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.

invid_regent 10y ago
I am not sure why Ames/Levine immediately dismiss anything linked to The Intercept or Skahill or Greenwald. Actually I do know why, Ames has decided anything touched by The Intercept's backer, the founder of Ebay, is tainted since Omidyar funded a group that had the same interests as Soros in Ukraine, also he tried to destroy Craigslist, plus he funds microloans. There's some evidence to support microloans cause a lot more harm than good in 3rd world countries. 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 https://www.patreon.com/radiowarnerd You can find links to episodes they've made freely available in the tweets https://twitter.com/TheWarNerd 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!
- richierocks 10y ago
  The main argument against The Intercept is a technical journalistic point. 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.
invid_regent 10y ago
I don't know how the NSFW/Pando stuff started. I don't know how it stopped. I wasn't paying attention. 'Paul Carr' is just someone I see mentioned in Twitter sometimes to me. What happened there?

invid_regent 10y ago

I am not sure why Ames/Levine immediately dismiss anything linked to The Intercept or Skahill or Greenwald. Actually I do know why, Ames has decided anything touched by The Intercept's backer, the founder of Ebay, is tainted since Omidyar funded a group that had the same interests as Soros in Ukraine, also he tried to destroy Craigslist, plus he funds microloans. There's some evidence to support microloans cause a lot more harm than good in 3rd world countries. 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 https://www.patreon.com/radiowarnerd You can find links to episodes they've made freely available in the tweets https://twitter.com/TheWarNerd 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!

richierocks 10y ago
The main argument against The Intercept is a technical journalistic point. 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.

invid_regent 10y ago

I don't know how the NSFW/Pando stuff started. I don't know how it stopped. I wasn't paying attention. 'Paul Carr' is just someone I see mentioned in Twitter sometimes to me. What happened there?