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>Peter Thiel — an early Facebook investor and board member — with his funding of lawsuits against media companies and his eclectic and severe right-wing politic
by TACIXAT 8y ago
>Peter Thiel — an early Facebook investor and board member — with his funding of lawsuits against media companies and his eclectic and severe right-wing politics.
The take away of Thiel glaringly missed Palantir in favor of some digs.
- zaroth 8y agoEclectic and severe right-wing politics? Awfully colorful way to describe him in an article which isn’t an editorial. Would love to see the NYT describing a left winger as eclectic and severe. Even masked antifa don’t get that treatment. It’s frustrating to have to mentally guard against this political mudslinging. The article is worse for it, and IMO it’s just coddling their readership and narrowing their audience.
- antonvs 8y agoDo you think either characterization - eclectic, severe - is actually incorrect?
- TACIXAT 8y agoThere is a much more neutral way to write it. >Thiel who is known for funding a lawsuit against Gawker and his conservative politics. Still, I think those, while visible, are rather minor notes compared to starting a billion dollar defense contractor.
- rconti 8y agoAgreed, although when I read that I was trying to remember what he is doing these days, and failed to come up with Palantir even though I used to work right next door to them. Of course, that doesn't absolve a journalistic enterprise of their responsibility.