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mixmastamyk • yesterday at 10:05 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

It’s a long article that complains he wasn’t mean enough to Jones in person and has been on the old Carlson show? Anything better?


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kristopolous • yesterday at 11:45 PM

Yeah sure, there's a knowledge fight episode on it.

Greenwald did promotional appearances with Jones

https://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/709-2-dans-2-war

He's also done collaborations with Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes and broadcasts on Rumble, the far right version of YouTube where scammers, bigots and hatemongers banned from YouTube go

Even if you agree with those people's politics they aren't investigative journalists. They are sensationalist provocateurs and merchants of spectacle - The internet's equivalent of the tabloid broadsheet

There was this phenomena during covid if you recall where people become radicalized to extremism, conspiracies and delusion, isolating themselves from their loved ones. There's a subreddit for it, qanon casualties.

Seems to have happened to Glenn. It's like the Pulitzer version of the Nobel disease.

https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/glenn-greenwald-offers-biza...

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