Like It or Not, Glenn Greenwald Is Now the Face of the 1st Amendment

[Titonwan]

30. You mean about the success of drug decriminalization in Portugal?

Yeah, I know about that. He organized the study and then reported on it. He also happens to lecture at colleges country wide, goes on all MSM (FOX, MSNBC, CNN etc), writes books on civil liberties and has an Izzy Award and a Polk Award. Next stop- the Pulitzer Prize.
Nice try, but no cigar.

"The Izzy Award is named after maverick journalist I. F. Stone, who launched I. F. Stone's Weekly in 1953 and exposed government deception, McCarthyism, and racial bigotry. Presented by the Park Center for Independent Media annually for "outstanding achievement in independent media," the Izzy Award goes to an independent outlet, journalist, or producer for contributions to our culture, politics, or journalism created outside traditional corporate structures. The judges are communications professor and author Robert W. McChesney; Linda Jue, executive director and editor at the G.W. Williams Center for Independent Journalism; and Jeff Cohen, director of PCIM."
http://www.ithaca.edu/rhp/independentmedia/izzy/

"The Polk award will also be a direct rebuke to critics of Greenwald who have accused him of trading on Snowden’s secrets for personal gain. Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said today after a hearing that Greenwald is a thief, “For personal gain, he’s now selling his access to information, that’s how they’re terming it…. A thief selling stolen material is a thief,” he told reporters according to Politico."
http://www.occupy.com/article/glenn-greenwald-fellow-snowden-reporters-expected-win-top-journalism-award#sthash.jM6q88WM.dpuf