Army Tier 1 Unit Cancelled?

[amlove21]

Wow this guy is a tool. I feel like if I in passing told him some fabricated story of gang rapes on Bragg, he would just automatically believe it and add it to his confirmation bias.

Fort Bragg more dangerous than Fort Hood?! maybe since they changed the name?

As @Pashtun Wally said and @Cookie_ emphasized,


He even talks about how he was just throwing things into the book that he heard that didn't really go together.

Bro. HBO picked this up.

HBO Secures Rights To Develop ‘The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking And Murder In The Special Forces’ Into Series

 

[Florida173]

Bro. HBO picked this up.

HBO Secures Rights To Develop ‘The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking And Murder In The Special Forces’ Into Series

like fan fiction

 

[Marauder06]

Agree.

Kind of a partially formed thought in my head, one I've chewed on over the McPhee/ Kennedy/ can't wait for the others debacle of late:
Traditional media is dead. It is "alive" but useless, a vegetable in a rolling chair. Look what's replaced it: social media, podcasts, blogs, etc. I think we can all agree that these hosts, posters, and authors all have a responsibility to vet their guests the same as journalism USED to act. If you're transmitting information and treating it as fact, you have a duty to ensure, to the best of your ability, the information is correct.

If you to want to lay claim to being the new journalism, the new media, an outlet people can trust in lieu of the CNN's and Fox's of the world, you have a responsibility to act like a journalist.

What about the guests on podcasts though? If we make the argument a podcast host or social media personality should vet their guests, (I think they should) do we place the same burden on the guest? How deep should a guest dig before committing to a show? Should they? What's the threshold for...say Tim Kennedy is hosting a podcast and I agree to go on? How deep should I as a guest dig? Wind the clock back 6 months before the current controversy, what do I look for? Do I read his book? Do I go over every interview he's made, run down and FOIA every thing he's claimed? Do I see he is a legit SF soldier, sniper, MMA guy and stop there? "He's SF qualified and still in uniform. Works for me, see you on Thursday."

Anyway, just a rambling thought.

That's a great point, and really hard to say where the "due diligence" line lies. Let's say, for example, your name is Barron and you run a highly-popular Air Force SOF-themed podcast called "Twos Unprepared" and you host, say, a guy who claims he's a smart intel guy with a SOF background. I know, I know, "no one like that exists," but humor me.

You do some background checking before you even invite him on the show, and it appears the guy checks out. Other online sites in the same space have had him on their shows, you know for a fact that he is/did X/Y/Z, you have mutual friends who vouch for the guy, whatever. But then he gets on your show and he says that he carried a bag of TOW missiles around and lobbed them at the Taliban for days or whatever. You have no way of knowing whether that's true or not, you weren't there. You have no ideas how many TOW missile that I.., er, I mean, the unnamed smart intel guy with a SOF background... can fit in his SCIF pocket. That bitch might be like a bag of holding for all you know. You can't disprove it in the moment, so maybe you have to let that go.

But then someone who used to be in that intel guy's until comes up on the net and is like



"Actually, um, I was his team leader on that deployment, and it wasn't a bag of holding it was a sphere of annihilation and everyone knows that if you put a TOW missile inside it, that act would rip apart the Prime Material Plane. He's full of shit."

Or whatever.|

And you start unpacking that over time and find out that the smart intel guy is in reality a dumb fuck fraud.

So is it on Barron for giving me the alleged smart intel guy a platform? I don't think so. To the contrary, I think his podcast helped start the process of exposing the fraud.

Now, if you know someone is sus, and you keep promoting him/her for clout, or supporting their work in any way, then yeah, you're complicit. You're just as bad as that person. That's why I avoid people like Jack, and I try to do the same with people who support him in any way. You know what he is and what he does, and you're still getting in bed with him? Cool. You do you, homie, I'm going to be over here with people of decent character.