Julian, although I believe Greenwald is right to decry the success of these manipulations, I, and I believe I am one of many on the Left and among Liberals as well, who are sick of Greenwald's one sidedness regarding the Democratic party vs. the Republican party. He's become so reactionary at every infraction from the Left one has to wonder about his sanity, in a sense or just what kind of politics he supports. The Republicans have been doing this kind of thing since the Reagan years and their machinations have become regular and profound in the ensuing years up to the present. He simply ignores them. Why? He also refused to speak out for his "friend" Martina at the time she was being pilloried for her comments on trans women in female sports. I have been turned off Greenwald for some years now just as I have become sickened by the Liberals' attacks on the Left and the Left's disinterest in critiquing trans ideology and the self-defeating activities of the Greens and speaking up for women's rights (except for the occasional piece on abortion). Greenwald never speaks up for the rights of women, a subject in which he is completely disinterested. There is plenty about the Democrats he should critique in a compare and contrast mode with the Republicans' machinations and eternal obstructions and lies, but he just pounds away at the Liberals and the Left.
I don't think there is any journalist with whom anyone will be 100% in agreement on all issues. Greenwald does a great job of having politics be held accountable to the public and this requires criticism from the left of the left as well of the right. He has shifted on the gender issue over the years and I don't think he covers it because honestly it is extremely covered. I get sick of covering it even if it is everywhere and affects way over 50% of the population when calculate minors and women. For what it worth Greenwald is not a liberal as much as he is doing his job asking the questions necessary in an era when nobody left of centre is doing it. We have neoliberal media critiquing the right and many on the right critiquing the right. I don't think Greenwald's work should be measured in terms of what he hasn't covered. This is hard work. I covered everything from the Biden emails to his cabinet picks to the on and off again pullout from Iraq. It is hard to thoroughly cover issues today and given that gender is rather over-covered and even hacked by bloggers (eg a solid piece comes out and a dozen come out to report what the original coverage did well on its own), I think his work on domestic and international affairs is quite good.
Julian, although I believe Greenwald is right to decry the success of these manipulations, I, and I believe I am one of many on the Left and among Liberals as well, who are sick of Greenwald's one sidedness regarding the Democratic party vs. the Republican party. He's become so reactionary at every infraction from the Left one has to wonder about his sanity, in a sense or just what kind of politics he supports. The Republicans have been doing this kind of thing since the Reagan years and their machinations have become regular and profound in the ensuing years up to the present. He simply ignores them. Why? He also refused to speak out for his "friend" Martina at the time she was being pilloried for her comments on trans women in female sports. I have been turned off Greenwald for some years now just as I have become sickened by the Liberals' attacks on the Left and the Left's disinterest in critiquing trans ideology and the self-defeating activities of the Greens and speaking up for women's rights (except for the occasional piece on abortion). Greenwald never speaks up for the rights of women, a subject in which he is completely disinterested. There is plenty about the Democrats he should critique in a compare and contrast mode with the Republicans' machinations and eternal obstructions and lies, but he just pounds away at the Liberals and the Left.
I don't think there is any journalist with whom anyone will be 100% in agreement on all issues. Greenwald does a great job of having politics be held accountable to the public and this requires criticism from the left of the left as well of the right. He has shifted on the gender issue over the years and I don't think he covers it because honestly it is extremely covered. I get sick of covering it even if it is everywhere and affects way over 50% of the population when calculate minors and women. For what it worth Greenwald is not a liberal as much as he is doing his job asking the questions necessary in an era when nobody left of centre is doing it. We have neoliberal media critiquing the right and many on the right critiquing the right. I don't think Greenwald's work should be measured in terms of what he hasn't covered. This is hard work. I covered everything from the Biden emails to his cabinet picks to the on and off again pullout from Iraq. It is hard to thoroughly cover issues today and given that gender is rather over-covered and even hacked by bloggers (eg a solid piece comes out and a dozen come out to report what the original coverage did well on its own), I think his work on domestic and international affairs is quite good.