Oddly I'd never heard of Walter Kirn until yesterday. And it was because of a long time leftist friend linking to a completely unrelated tweet about ChatGPT. Then I see this prose on TheFP and the tweet suddenly makes complete sense.
Oddly I'd never heard of Walter Kirn until yesterday. And it was because of a long time leftist friend linking to a completely unrelated tweet about ChatGPT. Then I see this prose on TheFP and the tweet suddenly makes complete sense.
You should subscribe to Matt Taibbi's Substack. It was formerly titled "TK News" but he recently changed it to "The Racket". Taibbi and Kirn do a weekly podcast discussing one or more current events. It is a great discussion (this from a guy who really dislikes podcasts - Bari's are nearly unlistenable). Walter is a treasure: a voice and speaking style akin to comedian Lewis Black, but better read than Black. Always insightful, never boring, frequently hilarious. Highly recommended. The most recent podcast discussed the Columbia Journalism Review multi-part piece on the Press's handling of the Russia Collusion nonsense. Taibbi and Kirn are excellent discussing it. They eviscerate several journalists who are exposed in the article. It is written by Jeff Gerth, retired NYT journal, who has lots of journo credibility. He is the real deal, the piece by Gerth is the real deal, you might take a gander at it: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-president-part-1.phpd.
Oddly I'd never heard of Walter Kirn until yesterday. And it was because of a long time leftist friend linking to a completely unrelated tweet about ChatGPT. Then I see this prose on TheFP and the tweet suddenly makes complete sense.
You should subscribe to Matt Taibbi's Substack. It was formerly titled "TK News" but he recently changed it to "The Racket". Taibbi and Kirn do a weekly podcast discussing one or more current events. It is a great discussion (this from a guy who really dislikes podcasts - Bari's are nearly unlistenable). Walter is a treasure: a voice and speaking style akin to comedian Lewis Black, but better read than Black. Always insightful, never boring, frequently hilarious. Highly recommended. The most recent podcast discussed the Columbia Journalism Review multi-part piece on the Press's handling of the Russia Collusion nonsense. Taibbi and Kirn are excellent discussing it. They eviscerate several journalists who are exposed in the article. It is written by Jeff Gerth, retired NYT journal, who has lots of journo credibility. He is the real deal, the piece by Gerth is the real deal, you might take a gander at it: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-president-part-1.phpd.