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David Brooks has a long history of being dead wrong but he still gets paid to be dead wrong. Great gig.

by celtoid 4y ago

leashless 4y ago
I was curious about the piece until I saw Brooks.
- korroziya 4y ago
  Thank you for proving my point.
bnralt 4y ago
The job of talking heads is entertainment, not any practical value. I'd say the same is mostly true for the news media at large, as well as bloggers, commentators, humanities theorists, and other professional thinkers.
- guerrilla 4y ago
  Not just entertainment but often generating propaganda for their employers.
korroziya 4y ago
Most of the writers for the Atlanic are dead wrong (hell most op-eds are regardless of source) but David Brooks is a "conservative" by liberal standards so people on HN and Twitter love to call him out more than their progressive talking head darlings.
- celtoid 4y ago
  The editor of The Atlantic has questionable ethics (he was a military prison guard while he served in a foreign army that's been accused of war crimes) so I always look at The Atlantic with a jaundiced eye. As for Brooks, he defended the invasion of Iraq for years.
  - areyousure 4y ago
    In case anyone is curious, this oblique description is of the editor-in-chief of Atlantic magazine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Goldberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Goldberg The "foreign army that's been accused of war crimes" is the Israel Defense Forces. Jeffrey Goldberg appears to have written a book about some aspects of his time as a prison guard at Ktzi'ot Prison: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139269.Prisoners https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139269.Prisoners
- aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
  Conservatives don't like David Brooks either.
77pt77 4y ago
Peter Zeihan is another grifter along the same lines. His new grift is that merica is on the right track because religion and China is done for because heathens. Another hilarious one was Fukuyama and the whole the end of history grift of the 1990s.

David Brooks has a long history of being dead wrong but he still gets paid to be dead wrong. Great gig.

leashless 4y ago

I was curious about the piece until I saw Brooks.

korroziya 4y ago
Thank you for proving my point.

bnralt 4y ago

The job of talking heads is entertainment, not any practical value. I'd say the same is mostly true for the news media at large, as well as bloggers, commentators, humanities theorists, and other professional thinkers.

guerrilla 4y ago
Not just entertainment but often generating propaganda for their employers.

korroziya 4y ago

Most of the writers for the Atlanic are dead wrong (hell most op-eds are regardless of source) but David Brooks is a "conservative" by liberal standards so people on HN and Twitter love to call him out more than their progressive talking head darlings.

celtoid 4y ago
The editor of The Atlantic has questionable ethics (he was a military prison guard while he served in a foreign army that's been accused of war crimes) so I always look at The Atlantic with a jaundiced eye. As for Brooks, he defended the invasion of Iraq for years.
- areyousure 4y ago
  In case anyone is curious, this oblique description is of the editor-in-chief of Atlantic magazine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Goldberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Goldberg The "foreign army that's been accused of war crimes" is the Israel Defense Forces. Jeffrey Goldberg appears to have written a book about some aspects of his time as a prison guard at Ktzi'ot Prison: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139269.Prisoners https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139269.Prisoners
aeneasmackenzie 4y ago
Conservatives don't like David Brooks either.

77pt77 4y ago

Peter Zeihan is another grifter along the same lines. His new grift is that merica is on the right track because religion and China is done for because heathens. Another hilarious one was Fukuyama and the whole the end of history grift of the 1990s.