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Maybe “reporter” and “journalist” are worth separating here. Dude can be a reporter, but for journalism I’d hope he’d attempt to be as unbiased as possible. I’m sure he does research but there’s often a dishonest bend to how or if he includes that research into his publications. What he shares is often purposefully misleading or selective information and videos.
Back in 2018 he was circulating a video claiming antifa was beating up and elderly person in their car. The full, unabridged video shows the car take an illegal right before intentionally hitting one of the people marching and pushing them 30 feet down the road. THEN they get the driver and out, a scuffle ensues and they tell the driver to leave.
He posted videos of and false information around violent attacks that got random people blamed and their life threatened. (See: the pro skateboarder incident).
He didn’t bother correcting the false rumor that he got belted in the head with a mixture of quick drying cement by antifa (it was in fact a coconut milkshake. Probably vegan, because antifa.)
although thinking about it they use coconut a lot for milk alternative products and so maybe a coconut vegan milkshake would be the way to go.
Actually, here’s a quote that sums it up pretty well. Ironically enough from a guy I used to party with in my early 20s. Small world:
Shane Burley is author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It, and a Portland-based journalist who covered the June 29 rally. He says, “I would never condone what happened to Andy Ngo, but I think there is a reason why he got in a conflict with protesters and dozens of other reporters present seemed to be left alone.”
Burley says, “One way to think of Andy Ngo is he is part of a far-right mediasphere that creates victimization narratives of conservatism and profit from it. It’s all about the embattled American man who is under siege at every turn, whether its trans children, immigrant criminals, anchor babies, or dangerous college campuses. ‘They are all out to destroy us and our values.’ It’s an entire infrastructure that’s moved from commentary like National Review to populist media hucksters drumming up a controversy. Ngo doesn’t seem to have many real journalistic credentials, and any he does is from creating controversy. He gets in the Wall Street Journal and New York Post from being a conservative celebrity. His actual reporting is very infrequent and sparse.”
Ngo adds a new element in facilitating violence, intentionally or not. Burley says, “He appears to target ideological opponents, which can make them fair game for harassment and violent confrontation.” The scale of the threats keep escalating. Now Portland is bracing for the August 17 rally.
