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In reply to the discussion: Is Glenn Greenwald the Future of News? - Bill Keller/NYT [View all]Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)30. It won't ever happen, but if you wanted ONE magic bullet
to instantly transform journalism, go back to the days of heavy restrictions on ownership ...
1996 was the beginning of the end, and we didn't even know it at the time...
(It still fascinates me why this NEVER gets brought up by anyone in the millions of pieces bemoaning the state of journalistic decay over the past 10 years...) I've never even seen Greenwald mention it, and he's be-all end-all expert on *everything* that's wrong with the industry today...
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I know what you are saying but where can I get real news? You are concerned that GG will slant
rhett o rick
Oct 2013
#13
I predict there will be a lot of crow eating by certain critics. I wonder how many will own
adirondacker
Oct 2013
#3
He advocates a more "activist, more partisan journalsim". I think that's the biggest
okaawhatever
Oct 2013
#15
Snowden went to Greenwald first with the story because he liked Greenwald's work
muriel_volestrangler
Oct 2013
#18
That is not the information I have. Gellman was working with Poitras very early on. She asked for
okaawhatever
Oct 2013
#27
A most excellent exchange of letters expressing their points of view, having said that
Uncle Joe
Oct 2013
#25