To be clear, this a Reuters editor responding to a situation in which Andy Ngo, whatever you think of him, undeniably scooped multiple major outlets that treated an alleged sex crime with multiple victims, including a girl, as a hoax. That's the level of professionalism we're athttps://twitter.com/mgerrydoyle/status/1446268467481513985 …
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What did I write that you disagree with? What are we arguing about?
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Without putting words in Jeet's mouth, in the non-paywalled portion of the article you referred to Ngo as "a journalist whose views I disagree with." Which seems like exactly kind of failure to be frank about who and what Ngo actually is that he's referring to.
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In which case it should be even MORE troubling that he covered a story more accurately than Slate or the Guardian. (Which was the point of the piece you have not read but feel compelled to comment publicly on.)
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But that is exactly the point! Ngô is a charlatan, which is exactly why we should expect mainstream media outlets do better journalism than he does. In this specific case, they were hopelessly wrong while he wasn't. The fact that he's awful is precisely why that's damaging.
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(I feel like I'm going mad seeing respected journalists who I've followed and read and admired for years pretending not to understand this)
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I think "did a better job" is doing a lot of work. Andy Ngo is a conservative who takes an antagonistic view towards trans issues. If a crazy guy on the street yells every day that it is going to rain, and one day it does when the weatherman said it wasn't, is this significant?
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Stop trying to be obtuse, Jeet. The point of Jesse's article wasn't a defense of Andy Ngo.
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Jeet always think in most profound terms about things. Nothing is particular for him. That is his superpower and curse
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