Journalist Who Broke Edward Snowden Story Gets Book Deal

[struggle4progress]

10:52 PM PDT 7/17/2013
by Kimberly Nordyke

Glenn Greenwald, the investigative reporter who broke the story on NSA leaker Edward Snowden and the U.S. government's secret surveillance programs, has inked a deal to write a book on the subject.

Sara Bershtel, publisher of Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt, made the announcement late Wednesday that the as-yet-untitled book will be published in March.

According to the publisher, it will "contain new revelations exposing the extraordinary cooperation of private industry and the far-reaching consequences of the government’s program, both domestically and abroad" ...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/edward-snowden-book-glenn-greenwald-587830

[BenzoDia]

1. Well, that's a crappy if true.

I guess some of the info we deserve to know needs to be paid for first.

[Major Nikon]

2. Surprise!

[struggle4progress]

3. "It's not about Snowden! It's about me, Glenn Greenwald!"

[Major Nikon]

17. And then when Snowden publishes his book, it'll be about Snowden

[Joe Hyperion]

18. Are you suggesting the book won't be about the NSA spying programs?

Oh yeah, I forgot. You have to pretend the book will be an auto-biography, in order to trash Greenwald and ignore the NSA spying programs again.

In fact, you chose to ignore the link the OP gave us, which said what the book will be about: "According to the publisher, it will "contain new revelations exposing the extraordinary cooperation of private industry and the far-reaching consequences of the government’s program, both domestically and abroad"

Greenwald Derangement Syndrome it is.

[Joe Hyperion]

4. So besides working for companies that work with porn....he writes books!

I'm fed up with Greenwald's morally corrupt ways.

[struggle4progress]

5. "Hey! Why don't you risk a long jail sentence, so I can make some money?"

The model Assange has pioneered with Manning seems to be catching on, as Greenwald adopts it while Snowden twists in the wind

[Joe Hyperion]

11. Snowden risked a long jail sentence before Greenwald got the book deal

Are you saying that if glenn greenwald isn't given a book deal Snowden can either face a "short sentence" or walk free?

[chimpymustgo]

15. Seems you prefer the NSA-Cheney morality. I'll take Greenwald's. And buy the book.

[struggle4progress]

9. And don't forget his book on drugs in portugal, sold at the website of Cato, a group which Greenwald

claims to have no connection with

[polichick]

7. People around the world will be interested...

in reading it, especially Americans.

[Blue_Tires]

8. I thought the WaPo "broke" the story??

Didn't Snowden go to them first?

[struggle4progress]

10. He approached them first but got miffed that they wouldn't help him prove to a foreign embassy

that he was the source of a document, so Greenwald ended up in print a day before WaPo

[Joe Hyperion]

12. Why don't you say that Greenwald denies Snowden approached the WaPo first?

Isn't it good to present all the sides? Why did you say it as a fact that the Washinton Post was approached first? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/edward-snowden-glenn-greenwald_n_3416978.html

[whatchamacallit]

14. Yay, more Greenwald Derangement!

Thrashing like sharks...

[UTUSN]

16. The word "journalist" is so often cited without his surname. Doth protest too much. n/t