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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 29
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      I find Greenwald’s holier-than-thou flounce from Intercept kinda cringe-hypocritical🙄. He’s been as much part of the problem as anyone. Media people pointing fingers at each other and moving around (old or new doesn’t matter: Vox=Infowars=Fox=NYT) is just shit stirring itself.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 29
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      There’s a certain equivalence now between news media and mere commentariat writers like me. Greenwald is now on Substack like me. Substack is now full of news media refugees. Several levels of influence up from me, but we can at least stop pretending they are a saintly priesthood

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 29
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      One way to view this exodus is: the upside of shit stirring itself is gone now. It’s now flushing itself down the toilet. What’s left has to compete with no special status. We’re now at the starting line of the real new media. Everybody has the same tech stack, nobody is special.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 29
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      So this is the “be somebody or do something” moment for news media people. The title “journalist” means nothing. Writing (or audio/video broadcasting) for a brand-name outlet means nothing. You might still get “press pass” access to places I can’t but they’re worth nothing.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 29
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      If you still think you’re better than anyone else with a laptop, you’ll have to show it through what you do. You can no longer ride the cred of a distinguished class that in hindsight was distinguished only by unearned access to high capex Heidelberg presses and telecom equipment

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 29
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      I sometimes wonder if I’m more moral than the average journalist 🤔 It’s not as academic as the comparison upthread to politicians. I have no interest in being a politician. But I’m clearly adjacent to news media. The main difference being unwillingness to do fieldwork.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 29
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      Laziness has saved my soul, but... Under the incentives journalists operate under, would I succumb to clickbait? Access-journalism deals with the devil? Epstein-Weinstein enablement circuses? Fox-level mad-crowd-fu? Probably not tbh. I differ in ways besides laziness.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 29
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      I lack a certain sense of moral self-importance I think all journalists who consider themselves “good” seem to share. Something that infuses the pompous phrase “the public has a right to know.” A tendency towards public-interest inquisitorial self appointment.pic.twitter.com/ZNIuspKNDk

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 29
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      I think “the public” is an ass, like the law, that I’m a part of it, and that it has no more right to anything than elites. The only reason the public doesn’t do self-dealing is that it lacks the opportunity and cunning. You get no halo from representing it.

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 29
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      Self-appointing yourself to represent its interests doesn’t lend you any sort of halo. You’re basically no better than Trump spokespersons representing Trump’s right to not be held accountable. Or a neoliberal corporate shill like me representing corporations right to profit 🤣

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 29
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      Another thing I wonder is: when everything across the board has been going to hell, why has news media been going there double quick? Is it because Trump has been attacking and undermining them with extra vigor as the Red Resentment Revenge Emissary in Chief? No, that’s too easy

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 29
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          I think it’s because they’ve been the only institution truly above judgment and accountability so far. To the point it took a populist near-coup to make them even notice there were issues beyond the internet eating their lavish 3-martini lunch.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 29
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          While most of my own personal interactions with journalists have been positive, a few times yeah... the sense of being judged by a priest themselves above judgment. And unaware of their own distinct lack of saintliness.

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        1. Chris Oldman‏ @ChrisOldman4 Oct 30
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          I think it's because of who's in media. Trump seems to trigger (i.e. provoke an intense, emotional response) in a segment of the population. Mainstream journalists fall within that segment.

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