Glenn Greenwald Explodes At ‘Servants To Power’ In Media: They’re ‘Defending The Royal Court’

[avaistheone1]

The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald expanded his feud with Meet the Press host David Gregory to include CNBC analyst Andrew Ross Sorkin in an interview with The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple on Monday. In that interview, Greenwald lashed out at the NBC News personalities for suggesting he should be imprisoned for his work with National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. Greenwald attacked much of the political media which he said has evolved into “servants to power” rather than watchdogs.

“It is true that The Guardian generally, and me in particular, are outsiders, not members of the Beltway establishment media clique,” Greenwald told Wemple.

Greenwald attacked Sorkin in particular who, on Monday, said that he would “almost arrest” The Guardian reporter for appearing to want to facilitate Snowden’s request for political asylum.

“I’ve purposely made myself an outsider by very aggressively and harshly criticizing not just the culture itself but the most prominent members of it, including David Gregory and Andrew Ross Sorkin, who this morning suggested on CNBC that I be arrested,” Greenwald said.
He said that members of the media who are attacking him are exhibiting “personal bitterness” and “resentment” over his ability to reject and breach conventions that maintain the working relationship between the press and the political establishment.


http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-greenwald-explodes-at-servants-to-power-in-media-theyre-defending-the-royal-court/

[randome]

1. A bit touchy there, Glenn.

But he's always had an adversarial relationship with other journalists. He seems to find it difficult making friends.

And yes, Sorkin is right. Greenwald, as a journalist, should only care about being 'correct'. Instead, he wants to be 'right'. That makes everything about him suspect because he has an agenda.

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[Octafish]

4. Journalists shouldn't be friends with the people they cover.

[Demit]

7. Dave Gregory looks so happy there.

They like him, they really like him.

[Octafish]

50. Did I ever tell you three things you should know about Corporate McPravda, Demit?

[font size=1"]Professional Liar by susan m hinckley.[/font size]

The official voice of the Republikkkon Party also seems the official voice of Big Media:

ABC and the rise of Rush Limbaugh

The other thing the great Carl Bernstein reported should've got him another Pulitzer:

The CIA and the Media

His old paper still hits a homer on occasion, most recently on how the Government has privatized Secret Government:

Top Secret America: A Hidden World.

America's mass media were virtually silent about that series, too.

And that is why our nation creeps, literally and figuratively, rightward toward the "national security state" Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. described to Charlie Rose, a story that seems to have fallen off the national consciousness PDQ.

PS: This post really has four things everyone should know about Corporate McPravda. I know you know that, Demit, but for those new to the subject, quite a shock.

[Demit]

52. Lock, stock, and barrel.

My contribution of three things to remember about the government/corporate nexus

Btw, I like that needlework illustration. Yours?

[Octafish]

53. It's called ''Professional Liar'' by susan m hinckley.

She is a genius.

[Waiting For Everyman]

9. Had to laugh -- you think Gregory and Sorkin don't have an agenda?

And 'correct' vs. 'right'? Sounds a little hairsplitty to me.

[Coccydynia]

29. I wouldn't worry about Random too much.

[Cali_Democrat]

21. I think journalists should be objective

Greenwald doesn't appear to be objective. Not sure if he can be considered a journalist.

[Coccydynia]

30. Journalists need to be factual. They can have a point of view.

[leveymg]

51. Those who deny a point of view are, in fact, expressing one -

most mainstream corporate journalists allow the official sources they quote to totally frame the issue, sometimes without even attributing the source and usually with no real countervailing views or context. "Journalistic objectivity" is itself a form of advocacy journalism, simply one in favor of those in authority.

[theaocp]

55. Like Howard Kurtz?

Mr. "Both side do it"? He's very "objective" now isn't he? So "objective" that faux couldn't wait to get him on their team.

[Civilization2]

33. Wow, I have noticed all your comments are inane!

Why do you attack all the people spreading truth? Can't handle the truth?

If the agenda you ridicule is exposing deadly secret corporate-military power grabs of peoples rights,. then that is the correct agenda of a reporter. What do you think the mandate of a journalist is??

[yurbud]

43. those inside the beltway only care about taking correct dictation from their bosses

[sabrina 1]

46. Could you name a few 'journalists'? We've been looking for them for years

Colbert's assessment of US 'journalists' as 'stenographers' sums them up for me, like David Gregory eg, whose claim to 'journalistic' fame was to 'dance with Rove'. It was GREAT symbolism though I'm sure Gregory, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, missed it entirely. Rove otoh, probably planned it. He likes to rub the control he has over the media in THEIR and OUR faces.

Greenwald is the epitome of what a journalist should be.

I'm interested in where you have managed to find any journalists in the US media and who they are?

Wait, you're not seriously calling Gregory a journalist are you??



Sorry, seriously, who in your opinion is an actual journalist?

[arely staircase]

61. the otter defense

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023091872

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2. Somewhere in Purgatory

Snowden has his face buried in his hands.

[randome]

3. Snowden and his ex-girlfriend Lindsay Mills are having the same epiphany.

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8. ROFL!

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[Coccydynia]

31. Ayn Randome?

[Marr]

5. Seems accurate to me.

There's a reason guys like Gregory get promoted in the corporate media, and it shouldn't be surprising to anyone over the age of 12. They please the people who pay them. The media figures who have been most critical of Greenwald lately are, for the most part, well-paid, long time Beltway insiders who rarely do anything but parrot the establishment's official talking points.

[The Second Stone]

59. This "scandal" has shown the light on all the beltway

cockroaches. And for some reason, they don't scurry for the darkness. They scream at the small potatoes criminal Snowden and hope we are distracted enough to notice that they spy on our every move and overwhelmingly tax us, but don't tax corporations like General Electric.

[Octafish]

6. Greenwald stood up to Bush and Cheney, too.

The guy stands up to Corporate McPravda. Thank you for the heads-up, avaistheone1.

PS: People who believe in democracy prefer Glenn Greenwald to Cass Sunstein.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002797594

[MattFromKY]

10. And he stoop up for people like Matthew Hale!

A white supremacist that wanted/threatened to kill a federal judge.

His defense: 'This speech should be protected.'

[Octafish]

13. Do you think he agrees with Hale's ideology or Hale's right to speak?

I'd always believed, too, that in the United States, even those we don't agree with have a right to speak. I guess that's become passe.

[MattFromKY]

15. I've always believed that death threats are not covered under the 1st Amendment.

And the fact that he offered his services for free says a lot about the man I'm supposed to trust reporting on my government.

[mhatrw]

20. Yeah, I heard he is a card carrying member of the ACLU as well!

[MattFromKY]

25. The Citizens United defenders? THAT ACLU? Or some other group parading around for money? nt

[sabrina 1]

49. You're not fond of Liberals??

[msanthrope]

22. Um--he took on a trademark case for Mr. Hale. Trademark--long before any

'First Amendment' case.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. Sounds as if you confused the idea of free speech

with the person who spoke it.
Hale had a perfect right to say what he wanted to say.
And he had a perfect right to experience any negative consequences of saying it.
Don't confuse the two.

[MattFromKY]

17. And Greenwald had a perfect right to defend him.

Just like I have a perfect right to say someone that defends such a person is full of shit and not to be trusted.

Not to mention illegally recording conversations with witnesses.

[frylock]

34. just like i have the right to muse that yet another n00b is on the wrong side..

of history. I hope you don't enjoy your stay.

[msanthrope]

23. Trademark. Tell me what 'free speech' principles were involved in

the original representation of Mr. Hale?????

Since it was a trademark case, kindly tell us? It was only after Mr. Hale had lost the trademark case, and was being sued under anti-Klan statutes for his participation in a killing spree that any 'First Amendment' representation was talked about.

[Whisp]

19. he also illegally recorded a conversation in that case.

isn't that rich?

[Coccydynia]

32. It should be protected.

[sabrina 1]

47. Here we go AGAIN with the old, long ago debunked smear. To save you time since you're new, we know

the facts of that story, due to the fact that people here are far too smart and way too well informed to be fooled by a smear like that.

This deliberately disingenuous attempt at a smear has been dredged up by the usual suspects so many times and debunked so effectively, with something you might want to familiarize yourself with, 'FACTS', that it is laughable to see it here yet again. Some people are just gluttons for punishment.

Let me know if you want the FACTS surrounding that garbage.

What's even funnier seeing this tried over and over again, is that Greenwald's record is so pristine, this is the ONLY thing their 'opposition researchers' could come up with in nearly EIGHT years of attacks. And it is so easy to debunk at that.

I hope they didn't pay HB Gary too much for that failure of a smear tactic.

WELCOME to DU. Stick around, you'll learn a few things, like how not to discredit yourself by spreading old right wing propaganda. Yes, this old garbage was first introduced when Greenwald was going after Bush.

Iow, it's the equivalent of an old, discarded rag, picked up and used over and over again, deteriorating more each time it is used .... They need some new rags. But I guess they couldn't find any.

[xchrom]

11. If the shoe fits... Nt

[octoberlib]

12. Greenwald is going to be on Chris Hayes tonight. nt

[Catherina]

14. Good for him. n/t

[KoKo]

18. Glenn is a "Contitutional Lawyer" TOO! It's good to see the "Counterpoint"

going on. It's the NEW WORLD...and it's the REAL CHANGE WORLD!

It's all Morphing under us........

It's not comfortable...but, it has to happen.

[msanthrope]

24. Really? Could you kindly tell me where he is currently licensed to practice? nt

[MattFromKY]

27. Greenwald amassed a fortune working for a law firm that specialized in mergers/acquisitions.

JPMorgan, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Larry Silverstein... all clients of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

He still enjoys the fruits of his labor, relaxing on an enormous estate in Brazil. It's on a hill that overlooks the poorest parts of the country.

[Bluenorthwest]

35. He lives in Brazil because of bigoted US immigration laws. So aren't you showing your hand?

Hard for you centrists to keep the anti gay bullshit in check.

[MattFromKY]

37. Pointing out that someone lives in Brazil is being homophobic now?

Wow, a lot of people are going off the deep end trying to defend this man.

[sabrina 1]

48. Welcome to DU. Where they live is part of this story? Then help us out, where does

does David Gregory live? How about Hannity, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Russert's son, another excuse for a 'journalist', where does he live? How about the rest of the 'backwash' we call 'news reporters?? All living like kings, aren't they, but unlike Greenwald they are living here because there are no laws taking away their Civil Rights, as is the case with him.

Our propagandists do very well for themselves for serving their Corporate Bosses.

I see you are focused like a laser beam on what is important here. However, to be honest, I don't give a rats ass where any of them live.

But you haven't weighed in what apparently you are working hard to distract from, on the massive surveillance program our government is conducting on Americans.

How do you like living in a country that spies on its own people?

[warrprayer]

26. Oh thank you for being with us General Nuisance

let me count the ways I can kiss your ass

[iemitsu]

28. I completely agree with Glen on this one.

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Greenwald "said that members of the media who are attacking him are exhibiting “personal bitterness” and “resentment” over his ability to reject and breach conventions that maintain the working relationship between the press and the political establishment.".
Its like closet gays bitterly denouncing those who embrace the queer life.
To get and keep their positions, network pundits make Faustian deals and they forever look with envy at those, who haven't. To justify their own lack of character, or simply to feel better about themselves, they will try to destroy anyone who is free from the compromises they have made.

[dgauss]

36. Don't they know that Glenn Greenwald once defended Matthew Hale?

Maybe if they knew that, they would understand what the real travesty is here and would be o.k. with being spied on.

[Major Hogwash]

38. Oh my, did he really say, "They’re ‘Defending The Royal Court'"

And Greenwald is trying out for Court Jester!!!!

[Hydra]

40. Already Taken

He does an excellent job at it, most days.

Greenwald is the guy who has the anger of the Court for not keeping silent.

[The Link]

42. Ouch.

truth

[Hydra]

44. T/Y

I do like my truth to bite a little- teh stupid burns me on so many days.

[usGovOwesUs3Trillion]

39. Our M$M today is whacked, especially the way they suck up to the establishment, losers (n/t)

[Safetykitten]

41. I am withholding judgement until I hear from Cokie Roberts and how the cocktail party went.

[avaistheone1]

45. Soooo very prudent on your part.

[sibelian]

54. Good for him, and not before time.

If journalists in the my country behaved like US journalists nobody would read any of the papers!

[Le Taz Hot]

56. I have't had a tv service

For a coupleof years now but I recently stayed a few days in a hotel room that had one. Having no idea what the MSM coverage had been I was sickened at the absolute echo chamber of condemnation. It's like they've been given their marching ordeirs. I can't t help but remember when Cheney and Novak outted Valerie Plame and absolutely hardly a word from the press.

[LittleBlue]

57. He isn't wrong

The knee-jerk circling of the wagons by the media is shocking. They are supposed to be independent, but act as mere tools for administration policy.

[markiv]

58. Having followed the H-1b visa issue,I think he's right

it's amazing, whenever they want to shove more H-1b worker replacements down our throat, the sycophants in the mainstream media push out the 'skilled worker shortage' propaganda like clockwork, wall to wall across the country

I KNOW they do this, so yea, when someone accuses them of doing the same on another issue, I'm inclined to believe it, even though I'm supposed to 'forget' how they acted on another issue

[senseandsensibility]

60. "Explodes" is loaded language

It sounds to me like he stated a strong opinion against some powerful figures in beltway journalism.