Just watched the debate. What a trainwreck, although Michelle Goldberg was slightly less awful than I expected.
Gladwell was absolutely insufferable. First he says that "I worked for the Washington Post in the 80s, we followed these procedures" and then asserts that it's the same now, without evidence, while claiming that MT (whose name he consistently gets wrong, typical for a journalist who can't get anything right) is perhaps now 'out of touch'.
How he pulled the race card repeatedly, from a guy who looks basically white and is definitely more than 50% white, even exasperated MT. But it's quite valuable. This is how you argue in the elite media: bring up race and call others white.
The fact that this fraud has been pumped up for so long speaks volumes. I'm ashamed that I read Blink and actually took it somewhat seriously a long time ago.
You can actually see audience members doing the "Dude, really?" face after the third or fourth time Gladwell does his "You don't trust the media because you're a racist" insinuation.
Just watched the debate. What a trainwreck, although Michelle Goldberg was slightly less awful than I expected.
Gladwell was absolutely insufferable. First he says that "I worked for the Washington Post in the 80s, we followed these procedures" and then asserts that it's the same now, without evidence, while claiming that MT (whose name he consistently gets wrong, typical for a journalist who can't get anything right) is perhaps now 'out of touch'.
How he pulled the race card repeatedly, from a guy who looks basically white and is definitely more than 50% white, even exasperated MT. But it's quite valuable. This is how you argue in the elite media: bring up race and call others white.
The fact that this fraud has been pumped up for so long speaks volumes. I'm ashamed that I read Blink and actually took it somewhat seriously a long time ago.
You can actually see audience members doing the "Dude, really?" face after the third or fourth time Gladwell does his "You don't trust the media because you're a racist" insinuation.
He was the perfect counter to his own position.