Fuck Truthdig – it’s dead! It’s been stripped of all its talent and integrity and will likely relaunch as a benign sloganeering warehouse of the sort of tacky faux-progressive platitudes one is loathe to find on MSNBC subscription tote bags and the overpriced refrigerator magnets at Jeff Bezos’ Ass-Wholier-Than-Thou-Foods; ideas that are fully Botoxed into buxom and empty beauties as McRadical and scentless as Brentwood and Pacific Palisades elitism.
Where then should you go for real independent journalism? Why, the newly launched site of Robert Scheer, SCHEERPOST, that’s where! Here’s the copy that’s circulating through progressive in-boxes about what you’ll find there:
Leading thinkers and timely analysis posted daily. Podcasts, essays, political cartoons and more. Special coverage of how the pandemic is reshaping our world. Regular contributors include Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges, Iraq war veteran Maj. Danny Sjursen and the inimitable illustrations and satires of Mr. Fish.
So go there and tell Bob that you still absolutely give a shit! Onward!
Esteemed Mr. Booth,
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Not only for your work, but for pointing us to a redemption in the form of SCHEERPOST. All those you mentioned here (including you) are some of the most literate, insightful responsible people of the journalistic world (or what remains of it).
Lot of fish on that web page! So glad to see Mr. Scheer land in a good spot, though it was never in doubt.
Thanks for this, Dwayne ; I was wondering what would happen to all the good folks who formerly contributed to Truthdig. Sad that it had to die, by so long as a phoenix arises from the ashes….
Henri
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Absolutely wonderful, like a bit of real normal in times of new normal. I give a shit, a whole lot a shit. Love his Scheer Intelligence. What a gem of a human being.
So does this mean Robert Scheer will start a union? I hope all the writers get what they were fighting for! 🙂