Okay I signed up. We need more real journalists who focus on facts and truth with impartiality and integrity, and I'm willing to fund such journalism for the benefit of all of us.
Welcome Mr. Tracey. I'm happy to give you and Mr. Greenwald a subscription because you're honest people. I probably don't even agree with half your opinions, but I know for a fact you're not a hack. And that's solid gold these days.
It remains a mystery, why there are so few of you - meaning, independent journalists who speak their minds and haven't chosen an ideological 'side'. It seems like the world should be splattered with free thinkers disagreeing respectfully and learning from each other.
But instead, there's a huge, dense, establishment foundation that covers the majority of our discussions.
Fantastic. Now that Messrs. Tracey, Greenwald, DeBoer, and Taibbi are all on Substack I see little reason to seek out "mainstream" news sources ever again.
Yes I feel like - no I know - the media and the left have always underestimated the common sense anc intelligence of the American public and I hope and pray that one day that will backfire on them & The truth will prevail!!
Mark me down as another subscriber. I owe you at least that much for your reporting of the summer riots. The Michael, Glenn and Matt show on SubStack is going to be epic.
I'm here via Andrew Sullivan's hearty endorsement, and I like what I've read so far. Also remember your encounter with those goons a while back. So far I've subscribed to Taibbi, Greenwald, Weiss and The Dispatch. I think your work will make a fine addition to that stable, so count me in.
I saw you were here and immediately subscribed. Great move.
As an English teacher, I have some students who express interest in journalism. I posted this in the summer of 2020 to show what someone with a camera and wheels can do:
So many other things to cancel. I canceled cable - haven an antenna now...back to the future! Interesting that if you have a decent signal, the antenna often has better high def. than cable does.
Tracey: "I’m not interested in being a cherished member of their little insular social circles. Which — breaking news — is actually the highest aspiration for many journalists, who incessantly perform for the validation of their peers far moreso than they do anything resembling a service for the wider public."
Spot on. For one example, that was a big factor in the Western coverage of the Bosnian War of the 1990's. All those journalists stayed in the same hotel, on the same side of the lines. and I actually heard them refer to it as a club. A very important one to them, apparently.
US journalists embedded with military after the first Gulf War created a monovoice. We learned it from the British. Picking journalists governments can control is a long standing tactic. See footnotes abt. British Press Control during the ”Great Palestinian Revolt" -1936-1939. https://kathleenmccook.substack.com/p/british-press-control-during-the
Glad you signed on to Substack Michael and honored to be a subscriber. Why did the Freedom of the Press Foundation (wonder why you masked FPF with the link) decide your incident with the [non-existent] Antifa activists decide that incident did not qualify as a bona fide press freedom violation? Was it because the violation was not perpetrated by a government actor? If so, okay. But, I found your “pertinent anecdote” unsettling since the implication is that FPF is operating, along with other media gatekeepers, to “dictate what’s seen as acceptable journalistic conduct.” In light of FPF’s stellar board of directors, if FPF is co-opted (and I believe it may be based on other FPF omissions I have observed), truthful journalism is – in a word – fucked.
Okay I signed up. We need more real journalists who focus on facts and truth with impartiality and integrity, and I'm willing to fund such journalism for the benefit of all of us.
Welcome Mr. Tracey. I'm happy to give you and Mr. Greenwald a subscription because you're honest people. I probably don't even agree with half your opinions, but I know for a fact you're not a hack. And that's solid gold these days.
Good luck, chief.
It remains a mystery, why there are so few of you - meaning, independent journalists who speak their minds and haven't chosen an ideological 'side'. It seems like the world should be splattered with free thinkers disagreeing respectfully and learning from each other.
But instead, there's a huge, dense, establishment foundation that covers the majority of our discussions.
I don't get it.
Fantastic. Now that Messrs. Tracey, Greenwald, DeBoer, and Taibbi are all on Substack I see little reason to seek out "mainstream" news sources ever again.
This morning I learned that Arts & Letters daily (The Chronicle of Higher Education) has started a substack. something is shifting.
Yes I feel like - no I know - the media and the left have always underestimated the common sense anc intelligence of the American public and I hope and pray that one day that will backfire on them & The truth will prevail!!
Mark me down as another subscriber. I owe you at least that much for your reporting of the summer riots. The Michael, Glenn and Matt show on SubStack is going to be epic.
I'm here via Andrew Sullivan's hearty endorsement, and I like what I've read so far. Also remember your encounter with those goons a while back. So far I've subscribed to Taibbi, Greenwald, Weiss and The Dispatch. I think your work will make a fine addition to that stable, so count me in.
I saw you tonight on the tube, came right here and signed up. Thank you.
Same here! I also subscribe to Glenn Greenwald.
I saw you were here and immediately subscribed. Great move.
As an English teacher, I have some students who express interest in journalism. I posted this in the summer of 2020 to show what someone with a camera and wheels can do:
https://education-ny.blogspot.com/2020/07/heres-what-also-happened-while-your.html
Thank you for your dedication to reality. The Corporate Media has never been this atrocious, and your legacy will hold up, while theirs will not.
Happy to support...not hard to cancel a newspaper subscription (NYT for example) and switch to actual investigative journalism.
I am running out of MSM things to cancel as I switch to substack subs.
So many other things to cancel. I canceled cable - haven an antenna now...back to the future! Interesting that if you have a decent signal, the antenna often has better high def. than cable does.
It's getting mighty crowded at Substack...in a good way!
Sounds good, MT. Looking forward to the upcoming Minneapolis trip!
I'm really looking forward to this, Michael. Good luck!
Tracey: "I’m not interested in being a cherished member of their little insular social circles. Which — breaking news — is actually the highest aspiration for many journalists, who incessantly perform for the validation of their peers far moreso than they do anything resembling a service for the wider public."
Spot on. For one example, that was a big factor in the Western coverage of the Bosnian War of the 1990's. All those journalists stayed in the same hotel, on the same side of the lines. and I actually heard them refer to it as a club. A very important one to them, apparently.
US journalists embedded with military after the first Gulf War created a monovoice. We learned it from the British. Picking journalists governments can control is a long standing tactic. See footnotes abt. British Press Control during the ”Great Palestinian Revolt" -1936-1939. https://kathleenmccook.substack.com/p/british-press-control-during-the
Glad you signed on to Substack Michael and honored to be a subscriber. Why did the Freedom of the Press Foundation (wonder why you masked FPF with the link) decide your incident with the [non-existent] Antifa activists decide that incident did not qualify as a bona fide press freedom violation? Was it because the violation was not perpetrated by a government actor? If so, okay. But, I found your “pertinent anecdote” unsettling since the implication is that FPF is operating, along with other media gatekeepers, to “dictate what’s seen as acceptable journalistic conduct.” In light of FPF’s stellar board of directors, if FPF is co-opted (and I believe it may be based on other FPF omissions I have observed), truthful journalism is – in a word – fucked.
Excited you are here!