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as much as I applaud his disclosure here, Ken Klippenstein is still a liberal who thinks power functions the way it does in the final scene of Tommy Boy: the good guys show up and take away the bad guy
I personally don't give a shit who the messenger is if the truth is delivered.
I'm only referring to his expectation that presenting the big media orgs with a glaring contradiction will result in anything except silence or deflection
Fair, though he has been the victim of those orgs directly - he left the intercept because their editorial policies were killing stories, so I think perhaps we can read him in a bit more charitable light on this point.
Dunking on Iran's prez is still shitty, though to be fair, breaking the True Anon Rules For Life was the first mistake there.
you're making a lot of good points
I get your disdain comrade. Media skepticism is always warranted, and I think I need to remember this with Ken's FP reporting more - your reminders elsewhere in the thread are definitely useful.