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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGlenn 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.
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Wheeler said her reasons for leaving "predate both of those things, to January."
"Ill have more to saynot about The Intercept, per se, but about things Ive learned about my own journalism over the last 7 months, as the Edward Snowden story played out and the Intercept discussed hiring meat some later point, after some reflection," she wrote.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/marcy-wheeler-leaves-the-intercept
Sony Pictures Buys Film Rights to Book on Snowden (updated)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024955152
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)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)"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)Don't you care about Baggerstanians?
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,235 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)that doesn't go back to the best decade to trot out old jokes.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)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)"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!
Cha
(297,323 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)...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)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.
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 PayPals operations in retaliation for PayPals 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)I hope they are changing their minds and finally seeing GG/Snow for what they are: manipulative scammers.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,235 posts)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.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)da!!!
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)free from the shackles that constrained their discussions at DU.
Sid
Whisp
(24,096 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)ChangeUp106
(549 posts)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)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)SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)and ask her to post this thread about some blogger leaving his website. What an attention grubbing asshole..
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)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."
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http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sony-pictures-entertainment-options-pulitzer-prize-winner-glenn-greenwalds-book-on-edward-snowden-259246721.html
LOL!
rug
(82,333 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)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)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)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)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)without the Snowden theft of classified docs, there would be no Intercept. Probably wouldn't be a GG either.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)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)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)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)with James Burke?
Awesome show, he was so good at connecting dots that you didn't even think were dots.