The audio from today is at the link.
Debut of Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald: An interview with Dan EllsbergToday, we are launching Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald -- a regularly-scheduled program that will include interviews and discussions with political figures, journalists, activists and the like. For now, all of the segments will be recorded as podcasts and then posted on Salon every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 2:00 p.m. EST. The segments will be between 30 and 45 minutes. Each new show will be posted on Salon's front page, posted here on my blog, and will also be permanently archived so that they can be heard at any time.
I'm really excited about the opportunities this can create to expand and deepen the coverage of issues beyond what is possible from writing alone. Although the podcast show will function as a stand-alone entity, my intent is that it will supplement much of what I write about by enabling me to interview, debate or otherwise engage with people on issues that relate to what I write about. I intend to make it a regular practice to invite onto the show anyone who is criticized here -- journalists, political figures or anyone else -- in order to discuss and debate those critiques.
Salon has invested a substantial amount of time and resources in order to ensure a high-quality technical presentation, but the technical aspect -- like the show itself -- is still a work in progress. With each segment that we do, we'll be able to improve the sound quality and other aspects of the podcast, including enabling other bloggers to embed parts of the segments. And as I do more of these, I'll be able to figure out the optimal uses for this format.
Here is how Greenwald introduces Ellsberg:
"For the debut segment today, I spoke with Daniel Ellsberg, one of the very few people in America who really merits the term "political hero." During the Vietnam War, Ellsberg -- a Harvard graduate, former U.S. Marine, top aide to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, and State Department official in Vietnam -- had a Top Secret security clearance as a result of his high-level work on the Vietnam War with the Nixon administration and the Rand Corporation, when he obtained the now-famous "Pentagon Papers," which revealed that the U.S. Government, throughout the 1960s, knew that the Vietnam War could not be won, yet continued to deceive the American public as it escalated the war."
On my way to listen now.
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