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orwell

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8. Hitch was at least droll and entertaining...

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Fri Mar 18, 2022, 01:22 AM

Mar 2022

...the rest turned into self-important bores.

As "journalism" now has become "infotainment", there is nothing worse than being boring.

I knew we were fucked when one of the big nightly anchors stated with a straight face, "We don't report the news, we tell stories."

Glenn Greenwald is the worst. The Intercept has become the Johnny-one-note of US bashing.

How's that old Vladdy love workin' out for 'ya?

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When Glenn Greenwald Attacks [View all] Celerity Mar 2022 OP

Ugh. So tired of pundits making themselves the news leftstreet Mar 2022 #1

Greenwald was never a liberal or progressive nakocal Mar 2022 #2

He's a little prick! nt Quixote1818 Mar 2022 #3

I remeber when he had a big fan club here. nycbos Mar 2022 #4

So? I was NOT among them, but he was very very very different early on. hlthe2b Mar 2022 #9

I agree AZProgressive Mar 2022 #11

My b.s. antennae were shimmying at GREENWALD (& SNOWDON) from the start & had to UTUSN Mar 2022 #5

That was a sickening period of time. I wonder where most of those people went. nt pnwmom Mar 2022 #7

At least, Hitch returned to us before we lost him. Haggis 4 Breakfast Mar 2022 #6

Hitch was at least droll and entertaining... orwell Mar 2022 #8

Greenwald is no longer with The Intercept AZProgressive Mar 2022 #10

Was that over... orwell Mar 2022 #12

I don't recall the exact topic, but it's about what you'd expect JHB Mar 2022 #14

David Horowitz didn't go from radical Leftist, to conservative, to MAGA nutjob over 6 decades JHB Mar 2022 #13

Tell us about the Banter and Substack.. msfiddlestix Mar 2022 #15