"And, at least for the first couple of days, Glenn certainly did appear quite frustrated and did say he'll publish more
aggressively. But isn't acting like this playing into their hands, by giving up his legitimacy as an impartial journalist?"
The story about Greenwald vowing revenge seems to have been really effective propaganda. It isn't true:
And Greenwald doesn't present himself as impartial.
And impartiality is not required for a journalist to have legitimacy.
And "impartiality" as practiced really means oscillating between voices of Republicans and Democrats and no one else, making the conversation always inherently pro-government.
Greenwald has written a New York Times bestselling book on executive authority, broken lots of stories on my blog about wiretapping that led to front-page stories on most major newspapers in the country, and Russ Feingold read from his blog during the Censure hearings. I think his reputation is beyond being questioned.
I find it surreal the way Greenwald is portrayed sometimes.
If you actually read what he writes, its logical, sober commentary. Now it happens that following logic leads you to some pretty wild sounding conclusions because it turns out reality looks a bit like a conspiracy theory.
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"And, at least for the first couple of days, Glenn certainly did appear quite frustrated and did say he'll publish more aggressively. But isn't acting like this playing into their hands, by giving up his legitimacy as an impartial journalist?"
The story about Greenwald vowing revenge seems to have been really effective propaganda. It isn't true:
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rm09tf
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/19...
And Greenwald doesn't present himself as impartial.
And impartiality is not required for a journalist to have legitimacy.
And "impartiality" as practiced really means oscillating between voices of Republicans and Democrats and no one else, making the conversation always inherently pro-government.
Greenwald has written a New York Times bestselling book on executive authority, broken lots of stories on my blog about wiretapping that led to front-page stories on most major newspapers in the country, and Russ Feingold read from his blog during the Censure hearings. I think his reputation is beyond being questioned.
I find it surreal the way Greenwald is portrayed sometimes.
If you actually read what he writes, its logical, sober commentary. Now it happens that following logic leads you to some pretty wild sounding conclusions because it turns out reality looks a bit like a conspiracy theory.