My meagre comments on Glenn leaving The Intercept (TI), are below:
1. Everyone who suggested @ggreenwald was in cahoots with Omidyar to found The Intercept to shut down Snowden reporting should be eating their hats today
2. When Glenn edited TI *every* article was scintillating
1. Everyone who suggested @ggreenwald was in cahoots with Omidyar to found The Intercept to shut down Snowden reporting should be eating their hats today
2. When Glenn edited TI *every* article was scintillating
...I should say "co-edited" but ran out of room.
In 2014+, I would go straight to TI every morning & read every single article on the website. It was groundbreaking content. Now I can't even remember the last time I visited the site. It is by in large vacuous mainstream drivel..
In 2014+, I would go straight to TI every morning & read every single article on the website. It was groundbreaking content. Now I can't even remember the last time I visited the site. It is by in large vacuous mainstream drivel..
...that is virtually indistinguishable from any of 1,000 other churn outlets.
By contrast, Glenn's personal reporting has remained as vital a shining light as ever.
3. While I understand why people are using Substack & its obvious benefits, I do not personally want him there
By contrast, Glenn's personal reporting has remained as vital a shining light as ever.
3. While I understand why people are using Substack & its obvious benefits, I do not personally want him there
Substack is a great lilypad for a situation such as @ggreenwald is in today, but we the public need more than just him to build his own inevitable large following/reach.
What we need, is him to take the lessons learned from the co-opting & usurpation of The Intercept & try again
What we need, is him to take the lessons learned from the co-opting & usurpation of The Intercept & try again
4. The current mass media landscape is a harsh desert depriving citizens of information rather than supplying them with it. @ggreenwald is one of the very few people on this planet who has the experience, smarts, resources & network to again build a platform with mainstream reach
5. Dissident writers are being squeezed, threatened & deprived arguably more than ever before (at least, in the last 70 years). To assemble a team of such to provide truly fearless investigative journalism & to do so in such a way that it CAN'T be co-opted, is a public necessity.
6. This is the part where I give away free intellectual property. Which I've done behind the scenes 1000x over the years for many key ppl but there isn't time now or opportunity
A) BUILD IT & PUBLISH TO A PUBLIC BLOCKCHAIN guarantees no censorship
B) HOST IT IN ICELAND
The end
A) BUILD IT & PUBLISH TO A PUBLIC BLOCKCHAIN guarantees no censorship
B) HOST IT IN ICELAND
The end
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