What Greenwald said vs Reuters summary of what he said:

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35. In a democracy, the people rely on investigative journalists

to help expose government overreach and tyranny. Our free press is protected in the very first amendment to the US Constitution, precisely because it was and is considered critical to the health of our democracy.

Under corporate rule, as under any type of authoritarian rule, journalists instead become lapdogs to power, dutifully reporting what the government wants them to report.

This administration is not just waging a war on whistleblowers; it is also waging a war against investigative journalism, and it has already, outrageously, attempted to criminalize what, by definition, investigative journalists do. The backlash was so severe and immediate that they are now backtracking. You, along with other reliable apologists for everything corporate and authoritarian coming out of this administration, defended these outrageous actions that the administration is now walking back.

Governments that turn authoritarian *always* attack a free press, especially a free press that is already exposing egregious abuses of power.

Governments that turn authoritarian and attack the free press also invariably create a propaganda machine to smear and vilify the journalists they so despise.

Your drumbeat of pithy snark, smears, and distractions is utterly irrelevant here. What is relevant is that the government of the United States of America continues to engage in mass surveillance directed against its own people.