Am I going to run a correction to a *tweet* in which I blast Greenwald for boosting Revolver News without qualifying it as a cess pit of conspiratorial chuddery?

No, I don’t think I will.
I do lament the fact that, in conversation with one of my own editors, I was too dismissive of the possibility that the death wasn’t connected to Jan 6.
Greenwald was accidentally right. For a lot of people following the coverage, there was little reason to doubt the official narrative. Aside from just, you know, having a dorm room skepticism to “official narratives” to begin with.
Put yourself in the shoes of an ordinary person who reads about an officer dying immediately after a tumultuous riot in which a bunch of cops report injuries.

Is the proper epistemic posture to at that point say, “WHOA HANG ON IT DOESN’T ADD UP THAT HE WOULD DIE”?
It was absolutely justified for people to believe that he didn’t just suddenly and spontaneously die the day after an intense riot at the Capitol in which scores of people got seriously hurt, with no connection to the event.
Greenwald is out on the town claiming victory, but his is the victory that comes to all counternarrative merchants who love to seize on the one time they say something that ends up being right, but ignore all the times their iconoclasm just ends up as stoner-pilled lunacy.
This is an occasion in which his reflexive and typically baseless skepticism of “official narratives” and media coverage can be cashed in for Twitter bragging rights. Hope he enjoys it!

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Getting a lot of good pushback on this. So I want to explain my reasons for thinking this is a good development.
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That's because we use "living through" ambiguously.

Sometimes it refers to *actively participating in x* and other times it means something closer to *being alive during x.*
"Living through" boot camp will make me tougher, yes.

"Living through" a depression, if my job was safe and my industry remained relatively strong throughout, won't.
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lmao I just looked up his username and it appears he does this to others too. Legend.
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I agree with idea that a lot of mainstream media underserves “unwoke readers.”

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JK it’s actually totally normal since we just joined and we’re smaller than everyone else the piece mentions.
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