Discussion: The Intercept: Ex-Staffer 'Went To Great Lengths' To Fake Stories

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Juan Thomas . Crooze is on line 1 with a job offer.

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Good stuff. Can we generate a flame war about Greenwald that degenerates into an insult-fest about Snowden off of this?

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Guess I’m not one of the Kool Kids and I have never heard of the Intercept.

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Never hoid of it!

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It could happen to any news source.

No matter what line of work you’re in there’s always someone looking to take the shortcut.

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I’ve never heard of The Intercept

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I don’t understand why anyone would do this. Sooner or later, you’re gonna get caught, and when you are, your (professional) life is pretty much over. However, IOKIYAR. He may have a job at Fox News waiting for him.

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That’s so weird. I also have a cousin named Scott Roof who doesn’t exist. He was probably thinking of me.

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I am not a fan of photos that don’t have captions identifying the person…particularly when the photo qualifies as “who the fuck is that?” Is that the editor or the lying fake journalist? Stop being lazy TPM.

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The Intercept is the news website that Glenn Greenwald helped start.

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Me neither. What, only 3 followers? Hah!

I’m game! Maybe we can even inflate it into a general Bernieites dissing Hillary and Hillary supporters Dissing Bernieites while not dissing Bernie free-for-all.

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It’s hard to find properly vetted help these days.

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This guy was working very hard to fake it. If he had worked as hard legitimately, who knows what he could accomplish?

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Fox: He is copying our trademarked work ethics.

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lol! damn you beat me to it

TPM rarely provides photo captions. Pisses me off…

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Go see a movie called Shattered Glass. About this very subject. True story about a young writer for the New Republic named Stephen Glass who fabricated numerous stories, and did so with real creativity and flair.

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Who the hell has ever heard of The Intercept? I haven’t.

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