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> Greenwald is not known for publishing "garbage pieces". Reputation trails actions. Overall Greenwald seems like a remarkably average journalist with strong r

> Greenwald is not known for publishing "garbage pieces". Reputation trails actions. Overall Greenwald seems like a remarkably average journalist with strong rhetorical chops who lucked into a couple good stories. But he's spent the past few years squandering that social capital on a mix of conspiracy and irrelevance, and this may be his bankruptcy. > He gave up his career as a lawyer to do what he does. This means absolutely nothing. If anything lawyers aren't especially known as paragons of truth! (And that's fine for a lawyer where the adversarial system holds, but can make you a bit shit as a journalist.)

leetcrew 6y ago
I think the point is that a self-interested/amoral person would be unlikely to leave a career as a lawyer to become a journalist. I'm not sure I'm entirely convinced by this. some people value influence more than money.
m0zg 6y ago
> Greenwald seems like a remarkably average journalist Sure, bud. Greenwald, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist is all of a sudden "average", just because he dared to ask questions and expose near-airtight censorship by mass media and Big Tech. https://www.newsweek.com/glenn-greenwald-legendary-progressive-journalist-resigns-over-censorship-biden-criticism-1543317 https://www.newsweek.com/glenn-greenwald-legendary-progressi...
- morelisp 6y ago
  OK - and the NYT has won six Pulitzers this year. Every news organization that choose not to run the story has a dozen. Your seemingly single criterion for trust still doesn't give the weight to Greenwald. Mediocre people win prizes, and smart people do dumb things. Greenwald is not a reliable person to carry the entire institution of journalism on his shoulders as you keep insisting he does. (Newsweek, by the way, has been owned and operated by Olivet / David Jang's Community cult for several years now. It has no connection to the previous magazine of the same name.)
  - m0zg 6y ago
    There's a difference. Greenwald won a Pulitzer _before_ it was awarded for "orange man bad" as a sole qualification.
    - morelisp 6y ago
      Thanks god we have you to properly award the Metapulitzer or we’d never know what was decent journalism.

leetcrew 6y ago

I think the point is that a self-interested/amoral person would be unlikely to leave a career as a lawyer to become a journalist. I'm not sure I'm entirely convinced by this. some people value influence more than money.

m0zg 6y ago

> Greenwald seems like a remarkably average journalist Sure, bud. Greenwald, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist is all of a sudden "average", just because he dared to ask questions and expose near-airtight censorship by mass media and Big Tech. https://www.newsweek.com/glenn-greenwald-legendary-progressive-journalist-resigns-over-censorship-biden-criticism-1543317 https://www.newsweek.com/glenn-greenwald-legendary-progressi...

morelisp 6y ago
OK - and the NYT has won six Pulitzers this year. Every news organization that choose not to run the story has a dozen. Your seemingly single criterion for trust still doesn't give the weight to Greenwald. Mediocre people win prizes, and smart people do dumb things. Greenwald is not a reliable person to carry the entire institution of journalism on his shoulders as you keep insisting he does. (Newsweek, by the way, has been owned and operated by Olivet / David Jang's Community cult for several years now. It has no connection to the previous magazine of the same name.)
- m0zg 6y ago
  There's a difference. Greenwald won a Pulitzer _before_ it was awarded for "orange man bad" as a sole qualification.
  - morelisp 6y ago
    Thanks god we have you to properly award the Metapulitzer or we’d never know what was decent journalism.