I usually start the day looking at my newsfeed, which sometimes includes a headline from fox “news.”
So yesterday I saw this headline:
'Unleash this monster and one day it'll come for you': Glenn Greenwald sounds alarm over cancel culture
I am not going to link to it because I don’t want them to get more clicks. But it’s just the most recent evidence that Greenwald has gone totally over to stupid speak.
It’s particularly ironic that he talked about this in an interview with Maria Bartoromo given:
Bartiromo is set begin her audition week tonight, though Business Insider reports that she is “having trouble getting CEOs” to appear with her, according to sources, due to concerns about how appearing on her show might affect their own images. One financial executive said: “Everything she does fuses into politics. She's become unmoored.”
He’s supposedly worried about people losing their trust in the media (that ship has sailed) while he’s talking with one of the main causes of why people have lost their trust in the media.
There are more than 400,000 deaths in the U.S. from COVID-19 and more than 200,000 deaths in Brazil from COVID-19; a violent stupid mob attacked our Capitol bent on overturning a fair and democratic election; people are jobless and starving in their homes if they can even hang on to to those homes….
but “cancel culture” is what’s really important.
I remember when I used to respect Greenwald, when he spoke out for civil liberties. I didn’t always agree with him, but he often made good points and he had the ability to force me to question my assumptions. That’s an important talent and a really good one for people who write about politics and society.
I don’t know what happened to him, but he’s become increasingly weird — to the point that even his very own publication, the Intercept, is done with him. (He quit because he wanted them to publish a piece on Biden full of unsubstantiated and inaccurate material — and they said he needed to edit out the unsubstantiated stuff. The horror!).
Betsy Reed, editor-in-chief of the Intercept threw some final shade at him when he left with this statement (bolding is mine):
"We have the greatest respect for the journalist Glenn Greenwald used to be