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He may be a US citizen, but he writes for the Guardian which is a UK newspaper. He is a foreign journalist.
by Nrsolis 13y ago
He may be a US citizen, but he writes for the Guardian which is a UK newspaper. He is a foreign journalist.
- grey-area 13y ago1. Foreign means not from a country, Greenwald was born in Queens, NY - just because he lives abroad, that doesn't make him foreign. 2. He works for Guardian US, a US company based in New York. 3. According to the editor, it's actually easier for the Guardian to publish stories on this topic through their US subsidiary, rather than the UK, because free speech protections are stronger in the US, so the US connection is very important to them and they view themselves as a global media operation now (just moved to a .com domain for example).
- Nrsolis 13y agoPedantic reply is pedantic. The point I am trying to make is that Snowden took this story to a few local, bona-fide, 100% US-owned/operated/associated well-known media outlets and they passed. He went to a UK-associated news outlet and got published. When you're done focusing on the most irrelevant part of my post, please look closer and see if you can discern a forest amongst the trees.