Glenn Greenwald is a cautionary tale about how a reporter who becomes intrepid for a while can still slip easily thereafter into a base contrarianism that only FEELS like courage, because anyone sitting on laurels can clench hard enough by their own initiative to become butthurt.

Jeremy Scahill was always the superior investigative mind anyway, which is probably why his work on the Intercepted podcast was able from the start to embrace intersectionality rather than fear it, as Greenwald did and increasingly does.

As a trans woman I feel safer and less patronised listening to Scahill than to Greenwald, a snobbish charlatan who just happens to be gay.

Cis white gay men, collect your log cabin pissboys already!

Anyway, as for the Intercept, this resignation is great news. Not just from a business perspective (which bores me and my actually penniless actual integrity) but in terms of journalistic integrity, something I’m shocked to be saying as an erstwhile admirer of Greenwald’s work.

That being said, regardless of the good work of individual journalists there, even without Glenn “pleasure to be here Tucker” Greenwald I still can’t rate the Intercept’s racial justice angle as genuine or serious. Not yet.

Why?

Stop working with Shaun King, that’s why. You’re confusing the other Caucasians by keeping that grifter around. And if your investigative skills are as hot as you all claim, you should already know exactly why.

Come on, Intercept, you’re supposed to be real. Live up to it.

It’s been a year since King last contributed and that’s good, but SURELY First Look Media can afford to draw a nice thick line above him to show the public they’re not afraid to reject a toxic freelancer out loud?