The trajectory of Glenn Greenwald's career is a good example of the odd dynamic that seems to happen in the social network era of "media" and "journalism". As Naomi Klein described in her book Doppelganger, there is a very distinct set of pressures which come to bear on someone who becomes a noted public personnae, adopts media technologies with very intense, very immediate positive reinforcement mechanisms, then becomes addicted to those reinforcement stimulus and begins chasing the stimulus rather than the truth.

It seems like one of the most deceptive logical tropes that attracts this type of personality into the shoals is the idea of embracing something simply because it is so "out there", counter to prevailing sensitivities and counter to conventional wisdom that its very repulsiveness becomes their defense for espousing and promoting it.

I know this is offensive, and I know it might make me look like a racist idiot but my professional integrity is so great that I refuse to allow this position to go unheard by the masses, so it has to be true.

Uh, no, most of the time, it just means that you have lost your moral compass and have learned (explicitly or sub-consciously) that it's easier to retain a smaller base of dupes with fringe falsehoods than do REAL investigative journalism. It's a lot more work to master the material of a subject to correctly explain a reality with twenty shades of gray than spew out simplistic black and white theories that can fit into a tweet to incorrectly explain a false reality to an idiot.

What an absolute nut-job he has evolved into.

WTH