Good God, you’re all managing to be right and wrong at the same time.
The Washington Post did not publish a black list. WaPo did, however, take PropOrNot at their word without examining their claimed creditials despite being a few months old. WaPo fucked up and was slow to respond (probably because they were making sure they didn’t fuck up twice).
Greenwald never said WaPo published a list, instead he danced around saying it as much as possible in order to induldge in hyperbole and pontificate his opinion in his articles that did have journalistic merit (and, yes he is very hypocritical in his style of journalism despite being very able). The Intercept, and many other of the sites offended by PropOrNot, stepped out of bounds in their reports by trying their damnest to turn “fake news” into a meaningless term through false equivalence and blanket accusations.
Both “leftist” sides (oversimplification) in the media chose to fight fire with fire (which oddly generates traffic to their stories) with little consideration for implication and it got personal on all sides which just brought the net quality of reporting on the election down. Passionate journalists are prolific and entertaining, but there is a tipping point to where (for example Greenwald) promotes pay-for-play conspiracies with no evidence.
