Greenwald is probably the closest thing to objective in today’s media. He’s clearly on Trump’s side now but can’t stop being fair-minded. His piece on last night’s debate started with a wandering tour of the venue by his reporter Michael Tracy, who did some REAL journalism. He showed us what was happening among the media and talked about it from the viewpoint of Shannon information, filtering out the meaningless noise. Glenn talked to him afterward and teased** him, clearly not happy with the randomness.
If reporters have any purpose at all, they should be remote sensors like an oven thermometer or a satellite camera. A reporter should get into places where his readers CAN’T go, and tell us what’s happening. That’s exactly what Tracy did. Glenn paid for the press credentials, Tracy went there and told us what’s happening, carefully distinguishing between baseline noise and real events.
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** I don’t understand Glenn’s heavy-handed teasing. Sometimes he crosses the line into outright nastiness, but his associates seem to know what he’s doing.
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