Re: Jimmy Dore: Glenn Greenwald Interview Archived Message
Posted by brooks on November 22, 2020, 8:26 pm, in reply to "Re: Jimmy Dore: Glenn Greenwald Interview"
but there's a big streak of disingenuousness in his output. Yes, and hypocrisy. He attacks Aaron Mate for writing for the Nation because they peddle Russiage, even though Mate is the leading debunker of Russiagate, including in the pages of the Nation. In fact in the very segment in which he attacks Mate, basically as a sell-out, and says he should go sell cars since there's "more dignity in it" he admits to doing the exact same thing at the Young Turks, where "...I stuck it out because I thought, well, once the Muller report comes out they’ll see." So according to Dore, when he himself "sticks it out" (while getting paid) at an organization that promotes establishment narratives, that's just fine, but when Mate does it, he's a hypocrite even though he's done way more work exposing the whole sham than Dore has. As to Greenwald, I think the idea that the predictable (and predicted) demise of The Intercept has nothing to do with the ideology and class interest of the oligarch that funds it is ridiculous. He calls it a "conspiracy" in the Dore interview and claims Omidyar has nothing to do with anything related to its slide into another lame, establishment liberal journal. It's apparently just pure coincidence then that the purge of dissidents (Poitras, Taibbi, Brown and now Greenwald) mirrors the purge at every other oligarch-owned msm outlet in the western world. The idea that a class analysis and ownership is irrelevant and that it's all down to personalities and circumstances, e.g. Donald Trump, Betsy Reed's fear of media criticism, etc is typical mainstream whitewash, a liberal, pre-Herman/Chomskian analysis. It's almost as if Greenwald knows this at some level and tries to counteract the impression by his oh-so-edgy use of f*ck every third sentence. That said, I still have huge respect for his journalism.
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