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by rgbrenner 2892 days ago
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?
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timmytokyo 2892 days 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.

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pvg 2892 days ago
He's not a 'reporter'.
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mark212 2892 days ago
Glenn Greenwald isn’t a reporter? I’m sure that’s news to him
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pvg 2892 days 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.
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blhack 2892 days ago
I wonder if the parent is being a pedant here, and meaning to say: "Glenn Greenwald is a journalist, not simply a reporter."
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mark212 2880 days 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.
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severine 2892 days 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...

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pvg 2892 days ago
No, I mean that what he does is advocacy. Paul Krugman and Tucker Carlson are also not reporters or journalists.
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chatmasta 2892 days 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?
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