but he's better than a lot of the other crappy grifters
A journalist should neither accuse, without evidence, someone else of being a 'DNC operative', nor claim, without verifying, that that person opposes a particular political candidate. The gravity of slandering someone that way, to me, is self-evident. It doesn't matter if the person he slanders is a saint or a piece of garbage.
If the person whose tweet I linked is truly a 'tool' (and I'm open to that possibility), then Greenwald could just have left it at calling him a 'worm'. That's fair game since it's a matter of opinion.
I agree and disagree. He definitely wasn't very professional in his remarks and could have toned it down but in that clip Glenn said exactly why he thinks that way. And this was on a podcast (i.e. his personal opinion), not an article posted to a news outlet.
The 'tool' even did exactly what Glenn accused him of on that thread, taking short clips of people he doesn't like out of context and disparaging them. Seems to be his MO. Again, I don't love Glenn but overall I feel he's decent and usually does actual journalism instead of playing silly games most of the time.
taking short clips of people he doesn't like out of context and disparaging them
I'm sure Greenwald makes fair accusations at times. The problem I have is with the false accusations.
That said, I'll concede the point to you. For me to continue in an honorable fashion, I would have to listen to the Greenwald episode your comment references, which I was unaware existed. For all I know, in that podcast, he would convince me that both the problem claims are true.
The thing is, I do not want to spend the next half hour (probably longer) listening to a Glenn Greenwald podcast :)
> The thing is, I do not want to spend the next half hour (probably longer) listening to a Glenn Greenwald podcast :)
Can't blame you for that haha, there are better things to do. I'll admit my opinion of him dropped a little seeing that clip in the tweet you linked... just not very professional, even if the other guy may deserve it.
If the person whose tweet I linked is truly a 'tool' (and I'm open to that possibility), then Greenwald could just have left it at calling him a 'worm'. That's fair game since it's a matter of opinion.