Where's the 'Collusion'?
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mostly uses it as a reference for a skeptical take on Russiagate media coverage, and some link it to give context on the reporter.
What it is
The Real News Network interview between Aaron Mate and Guardian reporter Luke Harding about Russiagate and Harding's book on alleged Russian collusion.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2019 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec harry8 · 2020-09 · on “Assange Hearing Day 17”
The kind of "journalist" Luke Harding is was brutally exposed by Aaron Mate by simply repeatedly asking him for evidence for his claims when Harding was flogging a conspiracy theory book. Nothing more than that reduced him to powder. It's an amazing thing to watch: [this video] I have no idea how this guy Harding is employed by the guardian, or indeed anyone or ever was. Obviously not a competent journalist, what he is... I'd never heard of Mate before seeing this, Mate just gives him rope and let's him do it to himself. That's the guy the Guardian had doing hatchet jobs on Assange when he was getting more death threats every day than every guardian journalist ever put together has received. [1]
Recommends AsyncAwait · 2019-05 · on “Guardian records first operating profit since 1998”
[LINK] [LINK] I'd recommend you watch this[1] interview with the author of that article as well, for some context as to who he is. 1 - [this video]
Critical overwhelm · 2019-03 · on “Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media”
"Collusion" was so central to Russiagaters that the buffoonish Luke Harding even named his silly book that: [LINK] . (To see how buffoonish, [this video] )