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You're jumping to a conclusion here -- sometimes the journalist does change. Plenty of political journalists go off the deep end at some point in their career.
by mturmon 4y ago
You're jumping to a conclusion here -- sometimes the journalist does change.
Plenty of political journalists go off the deep end at some point in their career. (Prof.) Mark Crispin Miller used to write well-researched essays on the culture of TV, now he believes that Sandy Hook was likely staged and that the standard explanation for 9/11 isn't true. Christopher Hitchens made a significant swerve to the right later in his career.
Many colleagues and former friends of Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald feel the same way about what they have done.
- honkler 4y ago[flagged]
- nkozyra 4y agoGross
- zmgsabst 4y agoThose last two examples indicate you have a tribalistic bias though: Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald changed their politics which you’re implying impacts their credibility because their friends (fellow members of your tribe) said mean things about that. Further, why is Christopher Hitchens changing his politics relevant to a discussion about journalist credibility — and even mixed into a paragraph about hoaxes?
- mturmon 4y ago> why is Christopher Hitchens changing his politics relevant to a discussion about journalist credibility...? Because, unfortunately to those who admired him, Christopher Hitchens allowed his disgust for Islamic fundamentalism to lead him to credulously advocate for a war that turned out to be based on a series of lies? Lies that he partly saw through, but that he decided to ignore in service of what for him was the larger good? It's an instructive episode.
- mturmon 4y agoSelf-replying to point out a more well-informed take on Seymour Hersh's recent writing: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats-the-story-with-seymour-hersh https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats-the-story-with-se...