Keeping Secrets: Pierre Omidyar, Glenn Greenwald and the privatization of Snowden’s leaks

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31. Please tell me you're joking.

If you can't understand why I made that comparison there's not much else I can say other than to be more explicit. Woodward, Bernstein and Greenwald are all journalists. Daniel Ellsberg is not a journalist; he is a whistleblower. Whistleblowers are not generally journalists; they leak information to journalists like Woodward, Bernstein and Greenwald. The article tries to compare Greenwald with Ellsberg but Greenwald is not like Ellsberg because one is a whistleblower and the other is a journalist. Ellsberg is a whistleblower like Deepthroat was a whistleblower. Deepthroat leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein who are journalists. The journalists made money reporting the information the whistleblower leaked because it was their job and people usually get paid for doing their jobs.

Is that clear enough for you? If not, I could see about writing it up as a children's book.

As for the NSA documents not being published, I'm pretty sure that the Watergate papers weren't published freely before the Washington Post printed the info. Does this mean Woodward, Bernstein and Mark Felt should have gone to jail or that the information was somehow less important?

This appears to be yet another bullshit hoop some expect Greenwald and Snowden to jump through before setting up another hoop.