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Glenn Greenwald On Dean Baquet: A 'Disturbing History' Of Journalism 'Subservient' To National Security State
HuffPost Live
Posted: 05/16/2014
Glenn Greenwald joined HuffPost Live Friday to discuss Edward Snowden, the latest news on NSA spying and his recent book "No Place to Hide." The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist weighed in on the turmoil at the New York Times this week and had some choice words for incoming executive editor Dean Baquet, who with the LA Times in 2006, was accused of killing a story about collaboration between AT&T and the NSA.
HuffPost Live host Alyona Minkovski asked Greenwald what kind of leader Baquet will be for the New York Times. "I think of all the executive editors of the New York Times," Greenwald began, "at least in recent history, or I'll say in the last 10 years since Ive paying extremely close attention to how the New York Times functions, Jill Abramson was probably the best advocate for an adversarial relationship between the government and the media. I dont know if shes always been that way but in her stewardship of the paper as editor in chief I think that was definitely the case."
Greenwald did not have kind words for incoming executive editor Dean Baquet. He said, "By contrast, her successor Dean Baquet does have a really disturbing history of practicing this form of journalism that is incredibly subservient to the American National security state, and if his past record and his past actions and statements are anything to go by, I think it signals that the New York Times is going to continue to descend downward into this sort of journalism that is very neutered and far too close to the very political factions that it's supposed to exercise oversight over."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/16/glenn-greenwald-new-york-times_n_5337486.html
randome
(34,845 posts)He just needs to say things and the world trembles!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesnt always set you free.
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joshcryer
(62,276 posts)If anyone wrote even a tenth of the garbage he says about him I bet he'd sue the fuck out of them.
...Mr. Checkbook Journalist is lashing out at the NYT? Seriously?
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arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Peacetrain
(22,877 posts)It took me a couple of seconds.. the line of the day
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Don't ya know.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)This will not do!