The Daily Banter’s Official Helpful Media Guide for Interacting With Glenn Greenwald

[warrior1]

http://thedailybanter.com/2013/06/the-daily-banters-official-helpful-media-guide-for-interacting-with-glenn-greenwald/

So you’re a mainstream media organization and you’re about to book Glenn Greenwald on your show or feature him in an interview segment. And why not? He just broke a story that everyone is falling all over himself to agree is one of the most significant news items of the last several years; it only makes sense that you and your organization would want to be granted an audience with the world’s new Hero Journalist, the man whose fearlessness and tenacity supposedly puts you and your kind to shame and reminds us all how important the Fourth Estate can be as a check against rampant governmental corruption and the authorities’ ongoing violation of our precious civil liberties.

While Greenwald may be unfamiliar to many average Americans and most established news organizations consider him little more than a footnote in the modern press — an intelligent but stridently utopian-minded provocateur operating right at the event horizon where journalism plunges off into unapologetic advocacy — we here at The Daily Banter have had a long and fruitful relationship with him. Most who write about or argue politics on the internet know Greenwald and few have a neutral opinion of him, but we really do think we’re special here at Banter — that we’re experts in the study of “Glennology” — because of the sheer volume of copy we’ve managed to glean from his very existence upon this planet, to say nothing of his ongoing contributions to political shtick.

So, with that in mind, we’d like to offer our services to the various mainstream news organizations who are now lining up to kiss Glenn’s ring in the wake of his stories in The Guardian on the NSA’s apparent data-mining of American citizens through telephone and tech companies and his interview with the man behind the leak, 29-year-old Edward Snowden. Talking to Glenn Greenwald, particularly if you’re an “establishment” news outlet, isn’t the same as talking to any regular doof off the street; you’ve got to be prepared and be on guard at all times for reasons that will become clear presently. The best advice we can give you right off the bat is that when dealing with Greenwald, it’s important to keep in mind the words of Tangina Barrons to the hapless Freeling family as it prepared to confront the ghost that was terrorizing it in the 1982 film Poltergiest: Clear your mind — it knows what scares you.


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good read

[monmouth3]

1. That was an excellent and very informative read. Wow...n/t

[OilemFirchen]

2. They missed one.

Glenn Greenwald is Very Important. Don't doubt him. Others have tried, but his Very Importance has neutralized them every time. And if you forget that he's Very Important, and he's not available to remind you, his likewise Very Important followers will do so. They are Very Important as well. Don't doubt them either, because they always remember that you are Very Unimportant.

Actually, they missed another: Glenn Greenwald is the face of New Journalism. Old journalism is stupid, with its standards and other stupid stuff. New Journalism is more better because it makes no apologies. If you try to correct Mr. New Journalist with your crusty old weapons like double-sourcing and verification you... will... be... vanquished. New Journalism is superior because the New Rules are newer than the now inoperable old rules, which are inoperable because they are Not New.

[Pale Blue Dot]

5. Do you have anything other than sarcastic ad hominems?

Otherwise, people might think you have nothing of substance to say. Just trying to help!

[OilemFirchen]

6. I do a mean Shecky Greene

That substantive enough for you?

[Pale Blue Dot]

7. That answers my question, yes. nt

[SidDithers]

14. You win the thread...

Sid

[BlueCheese]

3. They can dice the messenger to smithereens and feed his remains to the dogs.

But it won't change the fact of what's been revealed.

[eissa]

9. Which is nothing new

Governments can, and do, track communications. And yes, that includes the US. What sets us apart is the requirement of warrants to listen in on actual conversations. That has not changed, despite what that neocon Greenwald and his Paul-bot "whistleblower" imply.

[Coyotl]

10. Nor does it change the fact that nothing new has been revealed, just documented.

[b.durruti]

12. They are doing everything in their power to do just that. -nt-

[FSogol]

4. K&R. n/t

[FarCenter]

8. Quote from DailyKos --

“He mixes high-concept political commentary with the lowest forms of tabloid propaganda in service to a religiously anti-Obama narrative, cavalierly dispenses with even the barest semblance of truth, honesty, and intelligent thought when it suits him, applies double standards and doublespeak when convenient, and is rewarded for it with major online media syndication. In other words, he is far more a part of the problem than any likely role the remainder of his content could play in solutions. There will always be a market for lazy, exploitive, tabloid demagoguery that conceals and distracts far more than it illuminates or focuses, but there will also always be people who see it for what it is and call it out. That doesn’t mean Greenwald’s articles should never be used as a conduit to other information, but in light of his routine and unrepentant excesses as an allegedly professional commentator, there is no justification for ever using him as a direct or sufficient source. However, whatever the problems with his own commentary and interpretations, he may be considered indirectly useful as a link aggregator toward more credible sources than himself.”

Which is a lot milder than Glenn Greenwald Once Again Proves He is a Hate-Oozing Douche
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/20/1188423/-Glenn-Greenwald-Once-Again-Proves-He-is-a-Hate-Oozing-Douche

[warrior1]

11. Wow he's really a scumbag

[Whisp]

13. enraged little jerk Glenn. what an asshole. n/t

[sigmasix]

15. he's gonna identify "them" for us

Greenwald claims to be a philosopher with the answers. He knows who "They" are and we just need to wait for him and his "sources" to name names.
The last few days have been hard on DU's "Obama woo-woo" contingent. They almost seem to revel in the notion that American intelligence and military personel could lose thier lives because of these leaks. Like they think any agents hurt by this treasonous garbage have it coming to them. If Snowden has half the stuff he claims, and took it to the Chinese, many good Americans will die.
But as long as it kinda seems like it can all be blamed on Obama- so that it appears to support all the other Obama woo-woo.
wish the teabaggers would quit congregating at DU- you guys are obvious and kinda simple in your Obama woo claims.