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Why are Greenwald & Poitras writing this in The Intercept and not The Guardian, or Washington Post?

by kevinburke 12y ago

jcomis 12y ago
They both left to work at/build The Intercept.
- bostik 12y ago
  Not only that, The Intercept (or actually, First Look Media) has hoovered quite a lot of high-grade journalists. I'm slightly miffed because they got Matt Taibbi to leave Rolling Stone.[1] And I'm still waiting for his first piece with FLM. Man must be wading neck-deep in documents and politics to keep him from writing. [1]: https://firstlook.org/2014/02/19/matt-taibbi-lead-first-looks-next-digital-magazine/ https://firstlook.org/2014/02/19/matt-taibbi-lead-first-look...
  - sitkack 12y ago
    Probably hard to not get really depressed seeing all of that stuff.
    - samstave 12y ago
      And/Or paranoid for your personal safety. "Have someone else start your car for you for the next few days"
greenwalls 12y ago
I think Greenwald recently left The Guardian.
eoi 12y ago
In a recent interview with Democracy Now[1] Greenwald talked about the status of his relationship with the Guardian at the time he went to Hong Kong to meet Snowden, and it made me view his move to create The Intercept in a very different light. Here's a quote: "I had only worked with them for eight months. My deal with The Guardian was I write whatever I want, and I post it directly to the Internet, and you don’t interfere in any way in what I’m writing. So I had barely worked with any Guardian editors at all, let alone on a story of this size." [1] http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/14/right_out_of_a_spy_movie http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/14/right_out_of_a_spy_mov...
- lern_too_spel 12y ago
  That explains all the errors in his initial articles.
glitchdout 12y ago
He left The Guardian. Here's a quote from a recent interview he gave to the Guardian: > The move [to create his own journalistic enterprise] was audacious and bold, but when I raise it with him he's in a surprisingly reflective mood. He's had some feelings, if not of regret, then perhaps of a little guilt at having left the Guardian at a time when the NSA disclosures were still blazing. "I don't want to say betrayal, that's too strong, but a lack of loyalty ..." http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald-uk-arrest-me-edward-snowden-nsa http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald... That's beside the point though. What matters are the disclosures. Not who makes them and not the newspaper where they appear. The disclosures are all that matter.
dredmorbius 12y ago
https://firstlook.org/2013/10/15/next-adventure-journalism/ https://firstlook.org/2013/10/15/next-adventure-journalism/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10381859/Glenn-Greenwald-admits-he-is-leaving-The-Guardian-after-departure-leaked.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10381859/Glen...

Why are Greenwald & Poitras writing this in The Intercept and not The Guardian, or Washington Post?

jcomis 12y ago

They both left to work at/build The Intercept.

bostik 12y ago
Not only that, The Intercept (or actually, First Look Media) has hoovered quite a lot of high-grade journalists. I'm slightly miffed because they got Matt Taibbi to leave Rolling Stone.[1] And I'm still waiting for his first piece with FLM. Man must be wading neck-deep in documents and politics to keep him from writing. [1]: https://firstlook.org/2014/02/19/matt-taibbi-lead-first-looks-next-digital-magazine/ https://firstlook.org/2014/02/19/matt-taibbi-lead-first-look...
- sitkack 12y ago
  Probably hard to not get really depressed seeing all of that stuff.
  - samstave 12y ago
    And/Or paranoid for your personal safety. "Have someone else start your car for you for the next few days"

greenwalls 12y ago

I think Greenwald recently left The Guardian.

eoi 12y ago

In a recent interview with Democracy Now[1] Greenwald talked about the status of his relationship with the Guardian at the time he went to Hong Kong to meet Snowden, and it made me view his move to create The Intercept in a very different light. Here's a quote: "I had only worked with them for eight months. My deal with The Guardian was I write whatever I want, and I post it directly to the Internet, and you don’t interfere in any way in what I’m writing. So I had barely worked with any Guardian editors at all, let alone on a story of this size." [1] http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/14/right_out_of_a_spy_movie http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/14/right_out_of_a_spy_mov...

lern_too_spel 12y ago
That explains all the errors in his initial articles.

glitchdout 12y ago

He left The Guardian. Here's a quote from a recent interview he gave to the Guardian: > The move [to create his own journalistic enterprise] was audacious and bold, but when I raise it with him he's in a surprisingly reflective mood. He's had some feelings, if not of regret, then perhaps of a little guilt at having left the Guardian at a time when the NSA disclosures were still blazing. "I don't want to say betrayal, that's too strong, but a lack of loyalty ..." http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald-uk-arrest-me-edward-snowden-nsa http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald... That's beside the point though. What matters are the disclosures. Not who makes them and not the newspaper where they appear. The disclosures are all that matter.

dredmorbius 12y ago

https://firstlook.org/2013/10/15/next-adventure-journalism/ https://firstlook.org/2013/10/15/next-adventure-journalism/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10381859/Glenn-Greenwald-admits-he-is-leaving-The-Guardian-after-departure-leaked.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10381859/Glen...