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Michael Tracey
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Meta-commentary, but I've noticed that journalists/commentators who receive a modest income through crowdfunding are subject to intense scorn and ridicule (grifter!) while journalists/commentators paid by giant corporations, with all the corruption that entails, are just "normal"
In the short time that I've been producing videos/podcasts (around two weeks) I'm proud to have developed an income derived almost entirely from regular people (in addition to paid freelance work). Seems like a pretty good model. patreon.com/mtracey
Yes, there are some genuine grifters out there who bilk people for crowdfunding money (guys like @funder). But crowdfunding obviously does not ipso facto make one a grifter. I'm as transparent as possible. The typical media models are broken, and we need new ones.
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Michael Tracey
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I wrote a column for @NewIndianXpress on how failure to hold accountable bad media actors complicit in the Iraq/WMD debacle -- such as @jonathanchait, @JeffreyGoldberg, and @davidfrum -- enabled them to perpetrate the Trump/Russia debacle years later newindianexpress.com/nation/2019/ap…
The New Indian Express is a major newspaper based in Chennai, India. Happy to contribute. But would also observe how conspicuous it is that foreign publications seem far more eager/willing to examine the US media's incalculable failures on this story than many US publications.
US publications are unwilling to engage in self-reflection because almost all of them were intensely complicit in the failure. That's why it'll take foreign and independent media to conduct the kind of thorough, painful audit that is so desperately needed.
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Michael Tracey
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Charlatans like Abramson on some level know that they’ve been peddling a fraud, so instead of defending their debunked arguments on the merits, they resort to bogus appeals to credentialism: a fallacy Seth should’ve learned about in law school
The only reason Abramson garnered a platform was because he pioneered a groundbreaking form of “experimental journalism” which entailed hawking bias-affirming theories to Bernie Sanders supporters about how he was #actually leading Hillary Clinton in the delegate count
Abramson in May 2016: "I’ve been a metamodernist creative writer for many years now, but had not seen an opportunity to bring this earnest, optimistic, and loving art practice into my professional writing activities until Bernie Sanders came along."

Sure thing, Seth
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Michael Tracey
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I can't be the only one who would rather listen to a toddler talk about politics than Candace Owens
I spend 75% of my time excoriating deluded conspiratorial Democrats and liberal media freaks, but the minute I deride the GOP’s newest talking point-spouting, robotic joke of a figurehead, conservatives have a hissy fit 😂😂😂
Candace is a complete embarrassment, and it’s equally embarrassing that the conservative movement constantly elevates performance artist cranks like her in their bid to posture as having intellectual vibrancy, when the reality is the exact opposite
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