IMO Greenwald, like Julian Assange, was an important figure on the left a few years ago despite his deeply reactionary "libertarianism" and his affiliation with the despicable Ron Paul. For a time, he was both essential and inescapable.
His expose style of journalism no longer has the glow it once had, in part because it has fueled the goofy conspiracism that is now almost universal on much of what passes for the left in America as well as on the right. We can hope that the eclipse of Greenwald portends the passing of the yee-ha individualism that has dogged the left in the US since the Vietnam era. We don't really need him so much any more, although we do need "journalism," which is getting harder to come by minute by minute. The BLM era has brought with it the possibility of a a broader mass left perspective, however fragile and perhaps doomed. If this continues, the likes of Greenwald will become more and more irrelevant. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#4987): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/4987 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79300197/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
