Glenn Greenwald: "Detaining My Partner: A Failed Attempt at Intimidation"

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189. It's an interesting way for 'journalists' to be paid, don't you think?

I doubt very much that his donations have any transparency requirements, but it sure would be interesting to see who gives him money and in what amounts and whether that decides what stories he focuses on. I can see a fair bit of small donations, for example, from people from libertarian forums and such but I can also see someone like a stinkin' Koch feeding him money too. The Kochs of the world are enjoying all this immensely and will pay high price, I am sure, to anyone who will carry the story for them in the way they have paid for it to be carried. Tear down the government and it's silly regulations and bring Obama down with it.

But that has always been a bit of a problem with journalists and how they get paid. Say for example, Chris Matthews - he gets his paycheque from NBC, who owns (or vice versa) GE who makes lots of juicy expensive war toys. Now would Chris Mathews bite the hand that feeds him when the ramp up to the Iraq war happened? No, Chris went along with all the other liars or ignoramuses and nodded his dumb fucking head to that invasion like most every other pay chequer. But at the very least we absolutely know that.

We don't know who is paying Greenwald.