Real journalism vs. kiss-ass sycophancy. Glenn Greenwald vs. David Gregory. There’s no contest as to whose opinion and reporting I would generally trust, and it ain’t the guy from Meet The Press. Sullivan collates some of the fallout from the weekend’s explosive MTP interview with journalist Glenn Greenwald, who of course was first to break Edward Snowden’s allegations of illegal NSA snooping.
There has been an understandable collective wince at David Gregory’s asking a fellow-journalist whether he should go to jail (I speak of Glenn Greenwald) for helping a whistle-blower. Now, as readers know, I’m somewhat skeptical about the large claims made by Glenn and Snowden as to PRISM but, equally, I emphatically do believe that these revelations were clearly released to further what Snowden felt in good faith was the public interest. In a piece that would be close to perfect if it had any acknowledgment of the other side of the equation – that plenty of fanatical Jihadist extremists are trying to kill us every day – Glenn explains:
In what conceivable sense are Snowden’s actions “espionage”? He could have – but chose not – sold the information he had to a foreign intelligence service for vast sums of money, or covertly passed it to one of America’s…
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