Elon Musk tells Glenn Greenwald they could just write one hit piece and share it, since they're all the same

There’s a new piece in The Atlantic claiming that Elon Musk isn’t the political centrist that he claims to be. Or maybe Musk really is a political centrist, and The Atlantic is in such a liberal bubble it doesn’t know that it’s a leftist rag. Note the assumption: Musk’s tweets, actions, and associations suggest he might be more right-wing than he claims to be, and that’s, obviously, a bad thing. Musk even voted Republican in the midterms, which was a first for him.

Musk also follows Glenn Greenwald on Twitter, and we all know that Greenwald is a far-right Substack writer. Greenwald distrusts the U.S. security state as much as he always has, but good leftists now love the CIA and the FBI, surveillance, censorship, and more. Hey, why not have the Biden administration buy Twitter and have the government run it? That’s the Left today.

Here’s The Atlantic’s latest contribution:

Elon Musk has maintained that he is a political centrist. But his tweets, actions, and associations say otherwise, writes @cwarzel:https://t.co/CZ5gxGeiJg

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) December 11, 2022

The same worthless media liberals who never break stories, who never do any reporting, who just sit around mimicking each other every day – speaking only to and for one another in servitude to Dems – all write the same articles because they're all hive-minded empty herd animals. https://t.co/CK74mXWPJN

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 12, 2022

Every one of these outlets – The Atlantic, The New Yorker, HuffPost, Vice, Vox, CNN, Daily Beast, NBC, NYT tech reporters, Brooklyn-based liberal digital outlets – write the same shit every day, with the same trite ideas, no dissent, just worthless platitudinous liberal shit.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 12, 2022

They're always on the exact same side of every controversy. They all launder the same lies. All their sources are the same: they call the FBI and CIA and Adam Schiff and liberal tech execs and all write whatever they're told to write, knowing any dissent destroys their careers.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 12, 2022

Seriously, they could just write one article and share it, since they all write exactly the same thing!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2022

I want that tweet to be read to me on repeat as I fall asleep.

— PdV 🇺🇸 (@peterdevietien) December 12, 2022

I think progressives in general have a different idea of where the center is on the political continuum than maybe others do. They seem to think THEY are at the center…

— Jim Brown (@jbrown94305) December 12, 2022

I heard they all meet at this fancy bar called Echochamber in midtown

— Tony Sawk (@stayathomecome1) December 12, 2022

A yellow check mark for the Atlantic seems quite fitting.

— JGreene (@greenetoo) December 12, 2022

They all wonder why "traditional media" is struggling while setting up the equivalent of 20 food stands on the same street serving the exact same tepid, flavorless gruel and wondering why there are not enough customers for all of the to thrive.

— Siconik (@Siconik1) December 12, 2022

It’s just one big circle jerk, being each other’s sources with the original lie being “leaked” by a 3-letter agency. Investigative journalism is almost dead…to the great detriment of society. Thank you for all you do.

— Queen of Wrongthink 🇺🇸 (@sherree_r) December 12, 2022

The fact that mainstream media is not reporting on this story is indicative that they have ALL been colluding together.

I've been wondering for years why they stopped caring about ratings but now we know. Where is their money coming from?

— Link (@Linked333) December 12, 2022

Alternative media is making them irrelevant. They know it and they're fighting it by mocking the alternative.

— Hatman# (@Hatman19225538) December 12, 2022

Groundhog Day every day. Jump on twitter before bed and know what the talking points for the next day are.

— Doug (@FireChiefD) December 12, 2022

Actually, that sounds a lot like what people do on Twitter. But most of us don’t pretend to be journalists.

— Wisco Nate (@N047201) December 12, 2022

I used to be a newspaper reporter back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and do you know where most newspaper stories come from? Press releases. The reporter doesn’t drive around his beat and happen upon a story … PR companies that get paid a lot of money send in already-written stories. The reporter’s job is just to change the words around a bit to make it his own, and maybe call the “subject matter expert” whose info is on the press release to get a quote or two to liven things up. Things are only slightly different in the internet age, except that reporters may have gotten even lazier.

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