Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by sennight 1921 days ago
> Maybe you can explain what you mean by "journalists" (quotes and all)?

I don't know how to be any more clear than "can you call yourself that when the show is named after you?", without getting very specific. I'll make another generalization that you'll hate: "journalists" are incredibly vindictive. So I'll not be getting specific.

> I don't think you have worked with journalists in the sense that I use the word.

Oh, you mean people like Kurt Eichenwald... well I have, but not to the same extent.

It is accurate to describe the events leading up to Greenwald's departure as the "journalistic process", but that doesn't reflect as positively on the profession as you seem to think:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-edito...

1 comments

We disagree then.

Separate from all that, in terms of the phrase "can you call yourself that when the show is named after you?" - I have zero idea what this reference is - can you explain?

It isn't a sphinx riddle: look at the program name, then look at the name of the host...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_...