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In reply to the discussion: Greenwald and the Right Wing Media Have the Same Obama Smear--(Using Media Matters.) [View all]Bragi
(7,650 posts)Despite his critics here, I think Greenwald is the most important journalist of the last 10 years in terms of exposing and undermining the surveillance state that is eliminating core civil liberties not just in the US, but globally.
The fact that right wing libertarians support the exposure and demise of the surveillance state makes them my ally in this area, it doesn't make them my enemy.
I think it's my responsibility to be wise enough to see the limitations of these kind of alliances, without pretending that it doesn't exist in this, or any other relevant area of public policy.
Which is why I have read Greenwald's book, and follow his journalism as closely as I can. On the matter of undermining the surveillance state, I think he is a gigantic force for good.
Those who spend most of their time trashing him and his journalism because they disagree with his apparent broader world view seem to me to be acting, mostly inadvertently, more as agents upholding the civil liberties-crushing, surveillance state apparatus, than as critics of that system.