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Aggrieved left leaning pundit throws tantrum, self exiles. So cliche. So performant. Glenn Greenwald, Mark Crispin Miller, Greg Palast, Keith Olbermann, Harlan
by specialist 6y ago
Aggrieved left leaning pundit throws tantrum, self exiles. So cliche. So performant.
Glenn Greenwald, Mark Crispin Miller, Greg Palast, Keith Olbermann, Harlan Ellison, Bill Maher... just from the top of my head.
I love their work but omg they must be terrible to work with. Greenwald can't even get along inside the org that he cofounded.
I've worked with similar artists, purists, ultimatists. It's exhausting. Harlan Ellison biopic "Dreams with Sharp Teeth" captures it perfectly. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1018887/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1018887/
Contrast Glennwald with others who figure out the working artist schtick.
Bill Maher did a new thing on cable.
Rachel Maddow somehow plays the corporate media game.
Even Chris Hedges, the world's biggest Eeyore (or Marvin the Robot from HGTG), gets paid.
Some leftists figured out the podcast game. Pod Save America, Young Turks, "bread tube".
Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias launched a new masthead (vox.com). Seriously impressive.
And contrast the left and right ecosystems.
Rightists have time proven playbook. Merch, weird advertisers, tours and events, stable sources of funding.
If Limbaugh and Alex Jones and Shapiro can find patrons to seed their endeavors, and customers to buy their wares, surely leftists can suck it up too.