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ProSense

(116,464 posts)
Fri May 16, 2014, 03:40 PM May 2014

Glenn Greenwald's Website Loses A National Security Blogger

Glenn Greenwald's Website Loses A National Security Blogger

National security and civil liberties blogger Marcy Wheeler announced Firday she had left The Intercept, the digital news organization founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald and billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

Wheeler announced her "voluntary and amicable" split from the fledgling site on her blog.

She said her departure had nothing to do with her coverage of Ukraine, or the site's relative inactivity that editor-in-chief John Cook addressed last month.

<...>

Wheeler said her reasons for leaving "predate both of those things, to January."

"I’ll have more to say–not about The Intercept, per se, but about things I’ve learned about my own journalism over the last 7 months, as the Edward Snowden story played out and the Intercept discussed hiring me–at some later point, after some reflection," she wrote.

-more -

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/marcy-wheeler-leaves-the-intercept

Sony Pictures Buys Film Rights to Book on Snowden (updated)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024955152

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Glenn Greenwald's Website Loses A National Security Blogger (Original Post) ProSense May 2014 OP
Do you deliver personnel updates JackRiddler May 2014 #1
Are you ProSense May 2014 #2
I think you should also post about the zittotoical fly in Baggerstania Whisp May 2014 #3
LOL! n/t ProSense May 2014 #5
!!! Tarheel_Dem May 2014 #7
da!!!! flamingdem May 2014 #15
I love it! Tarheel_Dem May 2014 #17
I pity the fool Capt. Obvious May 2014 #26
There you go... JackRiddler May 2014 #9
LOL! ProSense May 2014 #11
Clearly. "Leave GG Alone".. Cha May 2014 #35
FYI, ProSense May 2014 #4
So long Marcy, we hardly knew ye! I wonder if allies are waking up to GG's true motives? Me$Me$Me! Tarheel_Dem May 2014 #6
Lots of missing GG/Snow cheerleaders lately. Whisp May 2014 #8
I think they've given up on DU. Perhaps, they've moved to the more rough & tumble Discussionist? Tarheel_Dem May 2014 #14
I not changink mindt! I love my boye Schnowden flamingdem May 2014 #16
They're all over at Discussionist... SidDithers May 2014 #25
Swell. I think that is a great place for them. n/t Whisp May 2014 #27
I said Skinner was a fucking genius, and I meant it. nt msanthrope May 2014 #31
Greenwald, Greenwald, Greenwald, Greenwald ChangeUp106 May 2014 #10
So personalities matter more to you that illegal spying on Americans? alarimer May 2014 #18
First off, all we have are allegations. Yes, personalities of those who make allegations matter. nt stevenleser May 2014 #23
Yeah, how dare that attention whore call up ProSense SomethingFishy May 2014 #24
Breaking out the Dom Perignon at the BOG hot tub no doubt Fumesucker May 2014 #12
Leave Greenwald alone. Maybe he'll ProSense May 2014 #13
What is the significance of this? rug May 2014 #19
What is the significance of any media post here? frazzled May 2014 #20
It's "a fireworks display", didn't you hear? randome May 2014 #22
I never even knew about this PayPal14 boycott - saw a bunch of stuff on twitter OKNancy May 2014 #21
It's time to seriously start asking what The Intercept is supposed to be... Blue_Tires May 2014 #28
A clearinghouse for stolen goods. Whisp May 2014 #30
Yeah, it's starting to look more and more like that Blue_Tires May 2014 #34
Truthout is selling GG's book. Whisp May 2014 #29
Interesting...you know...if anyone were to google my username, "truthout" and "audition" using the msanthrope May 2014 #32
You remember that neat show on PBS called Connections Whisp May 2014 #33
 

JackRiddler

(24,979 posts)
1. Do you deliver personnel updates
Fri May 16, 2014, 03:45 PM
May 2014

on the New York Times (just fired executive editor), CNN, Time magazine, NBC, or the rest of the corporate conglomerate media owned by Disney, Murdoch, Sony et al.? Your obsession is showing!

ProSense

(116,464 posts)
2. Are you
Fri May 16, 2014, 03:49 PM
May 2014

"Do you deliver personnel updates on the New York Times (just fired executive editor), CNN, Time magazine, NBC, or the rest of the corporate conglomerate media owned by Disney, Murdoch, Sony et al.? Your obsession is showing!"

...saying: Leave Greenwald alone?

I mean, why are you upset that I posted this?

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
3. I think you should also post about the zittotoical fly in Baggerstania
Fri May 16, 2014, 03:51 PM
May 2014

Don't you care about Baggerstanians?

 

JackRiddler

(24,979 posts)
9. There you go...
Fri May 16, 2014, 04:30 PM
May 2014

There's nothing particularly upsetting in it. It's in your obvious desire that what could mean anything must mean bad news for an outlet you don't like because it reports truths you don't want.

While you're at it, clue me in: I missed what the party line is on the FCC net neutrality decision by Obama appointees.

ProSense

(116,464 posts)
11. LOL!
Fri May 16, 2014, 04:48 PM
May 2014

"There's nothing particularly upsetting in it. It's in your obvious desire that what could mean anything must mean bad news for an outlet you don't like because it reports truths you don't want."

So that's why were you defensive? I mean, your comment above reinforces my point about your original comment.

"Do you deliver personnel updates on the New York Times (just fired executive editor), CNN, Time magazine, NBC, or the rest of the corporate conglomerate media owned by Disney, Murdoch, Sony et al.? Your obsession is showing!"

Leave Greenwald alone.

"While you're at it, clue me in: I missed what the party line is on the FCC net neutrality decision by Obama appointees. "

Clearly, you're trying to deflect from the OP and your defensiveness about Greenwald. LOL!

ProSense

(116,464 posts)
4. FYI,
Fri May 16, 2014, 03:53 PM
May 2014
Do you deliver personnel updates on the New York Times (just fired executive editor)...


...if you are interested in such updates, here are a couple you likely missed.

Fired NYTimes (female) Exec Jill Abramson was paid less than her own (male) deputy.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024955074

Greenwald Rips NYT Editor:'Disturbing History' Of Journalism 'Subservient' To Nat'l Security State
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024963038

Tarheel_Dem

(31,235 posts)
6. So long Marcy, we hardly knew ye! I wonder if allies are waking up to GG's true motives? Me$Me$Me!
Fri May 16, 2014, 03:58 PM
May 2014

Attention and the pursuit of truckloads of money seem to be GG's calling card, while his useful idiot sits idly in a foreign country that seems hell-bent on regional domination, by any means necessary, and I suspect that a few of his "principled" allies are beginning to find it all fairly disgusting and self aggrandizing. Bottom line = GG is a profiteer.

Raw Story reports: The Internet hacktivist group Anonymous is calling for protests against author and civil liberties advocate Glenn Greenwald because of his relationship with eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

In a release posted to Pastebin, the secretive activist group is calling for members to attend and disrupt scheduled book signings where Greenwald will be promoting his new book, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State.

The point of contention between Greenwald and the group stems from his relationship with First Look founder and eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar.

eBay purchased PayPal in 2002.

Representing the “PayPal 14,” — a group charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after they attempted to disrupt PayPal’s operations in retaliation for PayPal’s refusal to process donations to WikiLeaks — Anonymous stated that the 14 are “struggling to raise more than $80,000 in court-ordered restitution” that must be paid to eBay/PayPal





 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
8. Lots of missing GG/Snow cheerleaders lately.
Fri May 16, 2014, 04:22 PM
May 2014

I hope they are changing their minds and finally seeing GG/Snow for what they are: manipulative scammers.

Tarheel_Dem

(31,235 posts)
14. I think they've given up on DU. Perhaps, they've moved to the more rough & tumble Discussionist?
Fri May 16, 2014, 05:11 PM
May 2014

I'll be honest, I haven't even taken a peek over there, but from what I hear I could get the same sensation by taking the lid off my septic tank, and opening my front door. That being said, as I mentioned, I think "principled" people are beginning to question the motivations.

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
25. They're all over at Discussionist...
Thu May 22, 2014, 03:27 PM
May 2014

free from the shackles that constrained their discussions at DU.

Sid

ChangeUp106

(549 posts)
10. Greenwald, Greenwald, Greenwald, Greenwald
Fri May 16, 2014, 04:34 PM
May 2014

The guy is on my freakin' TV as I read the title of this thread. There's no escaping him.

The reason I haven't gotten all up-in-arms about the whole NSA thing is because Greenwald is such an attention whore. Him and Snowden are by no means traitors but stop already

alarimer

(16,245 posts)
18. So personalities matter more to you that illegal spying on Americans?
Fri May 16, 2014, 06:18 PM
May 2014

I recommend you avoid the Frontline episodes, then. You can bury your head in the sand instead.

Our guy Obama does not come off looking well in it. But neither does the rest of the security state apparatus.

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
23. First off, all we have are allegations. Yes, personalities of those who make allegations matter. nt
Thu May 22, 2014, 02:43 PM
May 2014

SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)
24. Yeah, how dare that attention whore call up ProSense
Thu May 22, 2014, 03:23 PM
May 2014

and ask her to post this thread about some blogger leaving his website. What an attention grubbing asshole..




ProSense

(116,464 posts)
13. Leave Greenwald alone. Maybe he'll
Fri May 16, 2014, 04:59 PM
May 2014

win an Oscar for best screenplay.

Sony Pictures Entertainment Options Pulitzer Prize Winner Glenn Greenwald's Book On Edward Snowden

<...>

Greenwald added, "I'm very happy to be working with Amy Pascal, Doug Belgrad, and the team at Sony Pictures Entertainment who have a successful track record of making thoughtful and nuanced true-life stories that audiences want to see. Growing up, I was heavily influenced by political films, and am excited about the opportunity to be part of a political film that will resonate with today's moviegoers."

<...>

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sony-pictures-entertainment-options-pulitzer-prize-winner-glenn-greenwalds-book-on-edward-snowden-259246721.html

LOL!

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
20. What is the significance of any media post here?
Fri May 16, 2014, 06:47 PM
May 2014

There are a million posts here about various Fox news personnel, MSNBC personnel, New York Times personnel, etc. etc. etc.
The media is as much a story as anything else, every day in every way.

When a long anticipated web site loses one of its main contributors before it barely gets off the ground, I guess that's as much news as, say, Glenn Beck getting fired.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
22. It's "a fireworks display", didn't you hear?
Fri May 16, 2014, 08:04 PM
May 2014

Greenwald is the most dangerous man in the universe! He really is!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)
21. I never even knew about this PayPal14 boycott - saw a bunch of stuff on twitter
Fri May 16, 2014, 08:02 PM
May 2014
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/anonymous-paypal14-campaign-spreads-pirated-copy-glenn-greenwalds-book-snowden-1448913

Anonymous, the online hacktivist collective, is calling on people to read and disseminate a pirated copy of Glenn Greenwald's new book about Edward Snowden, in protest at his links to eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

The campaign is a bid to raise awareness about the plight of the PayPal 14, a group of Anonymous members who were convicted of taking part in a cyber-attack against PayPal in 2010.

The campaign is trying to help raise the $80,000 (£51,170) the group has been court ordered to pay PayPal in compensation for the damage it caused during the attack.

At the time of publication, the the GoFundMe page has raised $6,514 of the total.

The campaign, which was announced by Anonymous on Monday, called on supporters to physically protest at events Greenwald was taking part in this week to promote his book called No Place to Hide, which details his publication of a trove of top secret documents stolen by Edward Snowden and relating to governmental spying at the NSA and GCHQ.

Billionaire backer

In the press release published by Anonymous, the group said:

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
28. It's time to seriously start asking what The Intercept is supposed to be...
Thu May 22, 2014, 04:49 PM
May 2014

Because so far it hasn't fulfilled 1% of it's hype and promised potential...

Is it the journalistic equivalent of a Potemkin Village? A shell corporation? A con? A place for Omdiyar to wash his money? What is it??

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
30. A clearinghouse for stolen goods.
Thu May 22, 2014, 04:50 PM
May 2014

without the Snowden theft of classified docs, there would be no Intercept. Probably wouldn't be a GG either.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
34. Yeah, it's starting to look more and more like that
Fri May 23, 2014, 09:45 AM
May 2014

Especially after reading about First Look's "partnership" with NBC news...

At least I know once and for all why he was so quick to leave the Guardian...Setting up his own venture is the only way Greenwald could keep complete control over the files and who has access to them...If Greenwald was still at the Guardian, NBC would have been talking to his bosses and not him...

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
29. Truthout is selling GG's book.
Thu May 22, 2014, 04:49 PM
May 2014

TO seems to be anchored to Greenwald and Co. as they are on the support and donations page at GG's Freedom of the Press Foundation as well.

I sense an epic fail of the likes of Karl Rove Is Indicted!

 

msanthrope

(37,549 posts)
32. Interesting...you know...if anyone were to google my username, "truthout" and "audition" using the
Thu May 22, 2014, 05:02 PM
May 2014

very helpful tool that our Administrators have given us in the upper right corner, they might find a few edifying posts.

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
33. You remember that neat show on PBS called Connections
Thu May 22, 2014, 05:08 PM
May 2014

with James Burke?

Awesome show, he was so good at connecting dots that you didn't even think were dots.

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