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last April, Trump’s then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo, now his Secretary of State, delivered a deranged, rambling, highly threatening broadside against WikiLeaks.

last April, Trump’s then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo, now his Secretary of State, delivered a deranged, rambling, highly threatening broadside against WikiLeaks. I watched the video linked and I wouldn't describe it as "deranged" or "rambling". Just because the author disagrees with Pompeo does not make him deranged. When reporters write blatantly political things like this, it really makes me question the fairness of the rest of the article.. what else did they mischaracterize to fit their political views?

pvg 8y ago
He's not a 'reporter'.
- mark212 8y ago
  Glenn Greenwald isn’t a reporter? I’m sure that’s news to him
  - selectodude 8y ago
    It very well may be news to him. He's a bit up his own ass.
  - blhack 8y ago
    I wonder if the parent is being a pedant here, and meaning to say: "Glenn Greenwald is a journalist, not simply a reporter."
    - severine 8y ago
      I think he's actually a lawyer, turned blogger/writer/editor/pundit. > He received a BA in Philosophy from George Washington University in 1990 and a JD from New York University School of Law in 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald#Early_life_and_education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald#Early_life_and...
    - pvg 8y ago
      No, I mean that what he does is advocacy. Paul Krugman and Tucker Carlson are also not reporters or journalists.
    - mark212 8y ago
      no, I wasn't being pedantic. I don't care enough about him to have any opinion either way, just that I'm pretty sure he defines himself as a journalist.
  - pvg 8y ago
    He's not. This is not a piece of reportage, it's an op-ed half-heartedly masquerading as such. We have regular 40123 comment threads dissecting the potential biases of actual reporting from the New York Times and other news outlets. This thing is almost completely overt, it seems silly and weird to ponder whether some subtle lean or scale-tipping can be gleaned in it.
- chatmasta 8y ago
  This is the most ridiculous comment in the whole thread. Greenwald broke one of the biggest stories of the century (Snowden). In what universe is that considered anything other than being a reporter?
timmytokyo 8y ago
As support for his claim that Assange is "essentially imprisoned for eight years," Greenwald's opinion piece (I wouldn't call it a news article) also links to a 2011 Telegraph article about Assange's then-current stay in an opulent manor while fighting extradition to Sweden to face sex charges. Greenwald seems to have a thing for peppering his writings with links to sources that fail to support his claims. I guess he thinks spurious links make his screeds seem more credible.
squirrelicus 8y ago
How the hell did rgbrenner get down votes for this? It makes me think anti Trump people are in this permanent psychological prison where aspects of reality that don't agree with their pathological need to see everyone around Trump as rabid animals begin hallucinating immediately. Oh right. We all do it, it's well documented, it's called cognitive dissonance, and it literally literally makes you hallucinate.
- patient_zero 8y ago
  >Literally (2): in effect : virtually —used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible As you say, this whole thread is pretty heavy. Not really in a thoughtful way, sadly. That said, I love your "literally literally". Is it meant to help the reader understand that you mean "literally" in its original form rather than its recently updated definition? :)
  - squirrelicus 8y ago
    Right. Literally-literally as opposed to figuratively-literally :)

pvg 8y ago

He's not a 'reporter'.

mark212 8y ago
Glenn Greenwald isn’t a reporter? I’m sure that’s news to him
- selectodude 8y ago
  It very well may be news to him. He's a bit up his own ass.
- blhack 8y ago
  I wonder if the parent is being a pedant here, and meaning to say: "Glenn Greenwald is a journalist, not simply a reporter."
  - severine 8y ago
    I think he's actually a lawyer, turned blogger/writer/editor/pundit. > He received a BA in Philosophy from George Washington University in 1990 and a JD from New York University School of Law in 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald#Early_life_and_education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald#Early_life_and...
  - pvg 8y ago
    No, I mean that what he does is advocacy. Paul Krugman and Tucker Carlson are also not reporters or journalists.
  - mark212 8y ago
    no, I wasn't being pedantic. I don't care enough about him to have any opinion either way, just that I'm pretty sure he defines himself as a journalist.
- pvg 8y ago
  He's not. This is not a piece of reportage, it's an op-ed half-heartedly masquerading as such. We have regular 40123 comment threads dissecting the potential biases of actual reporting from the New York Times and other news outlets. This thing is almost completely overt, it seems silly and weird to ponder whether some subtle lean or scale-tipping can be gleaned in it.
chatmasta 8y ago
This is the most ridiculous comment in the whole thread. Greenwald broke one of the biggest stories of the century (Snowden). In what universe is that considered anything other than being a reporter?

timmytokyo 8y ago

As support for his claim that Assange is "essentially imprisoned for eight years," Greenwald's opinion piece (I wouldn't call it a news article) also links to a 2011 Telegraph article about Assange's then-current stay in an opulent manor while fighting extradition to Sweden to face sex charges. Greenwald seems to have a thing for peppering his writings with links to sources that fail to support his claims. I guess he thinks spurious links make his screeds seem more credible.

squirrelicus 8y ago

How the hell did rgbrenner get down votes for this? It makes me think anti Trump people are in this permanent psychological prison where aspects of reality that don't agree with their pathological need to see everyone around Trump as rabid animals begin hallucinating immediately. Oh right. We all do it, it's well documented, it's called cognitive dissonance, and it literally literally makes you hallucinate.

patient_zero 8y ago
>Literally (2): in effect : virtually —used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible As you say, this whole thread is pretty heavy. Not really in a thoughtful way, sadly. That said, I love your "literally literally". Is it meant to help the reader understand that you mean "literally" in its original form rather than its recently updated definition? :)
- squirrelicus 8y ago
  Right. Literally-literally as opposed to figuratively-literally :)