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  • footfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    34·
    2 months ago

    I would actually take The Intercept off that list and replace with Drop Site news, since that’s the new site that Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim started after their departure from The Intercept. Basically the PMC and NGO class went and enshittified The Intercept

    • HamManBad [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      Should we include breaking points because it includes Ryan and Krystal ball, or exclude it because they co-host with reactionaries?

      • footfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        13·
        2 months ago

        I only followed Ryan Grim’s writing stuff not his video ventures. I’d leave that up to others to decide but I think hosting with reactionaries designates that it’s an entertainment product with news like characteristics. Do they do any of their own reporting or is it just hot takes?

        • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          For the most part, it’s a morning show slash news roundup podcast. They do have some partnerships, like with Jordan Chariton of Status Coup who reports on Flint, MI and East Palestine, OH.

        • HamManBad [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          They do some reporting, but it’s a lot of hot takes. A few days ago they had a really in depth talk with Jeffrey Sachs about how the US and Wall Street screwed over Russia after the illegal disillusion of the USSR (he was one of the architects of the color revolution in Poland but becomes very disillusioned by the mid 90s, so he would come across as very credible to any lib you show it to)

    • Kumikommunism [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      The Intercept is still pretty great. That happened a while ago and the articles they are putting out still cover the same kind of topics and from the same positions, at least that I’ve noticed. Every article I’ve seen has been covering stuff that the mainstream media wouldn’t, and from the left. I don’t go to their site to skim, but I haven’t seen any bad articles.

      • footfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        In my time at The Intercept, I’ve watched the newsroom increasingly become dominated by management and bureaucrats whose numbers continue to swell as the number of people who actually produce news dwindles. While the Intercept now has one poor copy editor for the entire website, it employs two staff attorneys, as well as a legal fellow, a chief strategy officer, a chief digital officer, a business coordinator, a senior director of development and an associate director of development, a product manager, a senior director of operations, a chief of staff, and a chief operating officer. And for the first time in The Intercept’s history, as of Monday, the new editor-in-chief now answers to the CEO.

        The company’s org chart, pictured below, provides a sense of how top-heavy it has become with business hires (basically the entire left half). Organizational chart for The Intercept current as of April 26, 2024. (Credit: The Intercept)

        This orgy of management largesse has coincided with layoffs of the editor-in-chief, managing editor, national security editor, copy editor, photo editor, multiple senior editors, social media editor, as well as writers and reporters. There are passionate editors and writers left who still want to do news, like Ryan Grim and Ali Gharib, but they are toiling under the impossible odds of the new management regime.

        https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-im-resigning-from-the-intercept

        • TerkErJerbsEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          Klip is awesome. I’m so glad he went out on his own to do what he does best.

            • TerkErJerbsEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              I don’t know who Raisi is nor am I following Ken so closely that I’m aware of everything he says or does. Also I’m not the crass comment police.

              From what I’ve seen he does good work. I don’t think there’s ever been a public figure who doesn’t fuck up once in awhile, and if there is they’re a fucking liar or good at hiding their flaws.

                • TerkErJerbsEnglish
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  Again, I don’t know what you’re referring to. I can tell you feel strongly about whatever it is. If you want to explain it better and get me on board with it you’ll need to add some context around who this person is and why what Ken said about them is problematic.

                  The work I’ve seen him crush is putting in endless FOIAs to expose massive wrongdoing at all levels of government and he doesn’t seem to pull any punches on whether it’s the right or the left fucking around or finding out, and I value that. But I’m still not hip to everything he says or does regards whom, and I’m not enough of a fanboy to drop what I’m doing right now to go down that particular rabbit hole. I do know he left the intercept over enshittification, on principal, which for a writer is a very risky but awesome and empowering move if it works out for him.

          • footfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            It’s not as simple as

            I haven’t seen any bad articles.

            They aren’t going to just flip a switch and go from writing good articles to bad articles. It’s going to be more of, what articles do they not write?

            For all Glenn Greenwald’s flaws, the thing that made him leave The Intercept was the pushback he got from all these people in the part of the organization that Ken talks about that don’t do reporting but somehow keeps growing, that his stories were making Biden look bad and that it was helping Trump.

            That’s classic behavior from Manufacturing Consent. Choosing to not publish stories or not cover certain topics.

            I think the same thing happened to Jeremy Scahill. His big interview with one of the top leaders in Hamas was part of Dropsite News’ debut.

            The Intercept probably didn’t want to run that article.