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>Glenn Greenwald has written a number of very good pieces on his Substack that I would in no way describe as quick take opinion piece. He wrote a piece about P

>Glenn Greenwald has written a number of very good pieces on his Substack that I would in no way describe as quick take opinion piece. He wrote a piece about Parler and the storming of the Capital[0], within a week of the event that was certainly a quick take. There is absolutely no way to definitively make any sort of claim about how involved it was, especially from his position, thousands of miles away on a patio in Rio. I find most of his pieces, to be very much 'hot take' in nature, responding to something that is currently going on. [0]https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-show-of-monopolistic https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-sho...

monocasa 6y ago
"within a week" is an eternity in journalism.
coldtea 6y ago
>He wrote a piece about Parler and the storming of the Capital[0], within a week of the event that was certainly a quick take. There is absolutely no way to definitively make any sort of claim about how involved it was, especially from his position, thousands of miles away on a patio in Rio. The position "on a patio in Rio" doesn't matter, as he was not doing reporting, he was doing a take. It wasn't some obscure event that needed on-the-field investigation for someone to make a take a week later (which is a lot of time in news). It's enough that others did the reporting, or the events were plain and clearly recorded on video, or one has sources, or experience to see what's the deal behind what's reported.