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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]The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)It would be one thing if he were actually committing journalism here: if were actually making accurate information obtained from reliable sources available to a public it had been hidden from. In some part his engagement with Snowden was journalism, and so of some value.
But all he is doing here is presenting an op-ed column; he is presenting his opinion, his spin, on a set of facts, and doing so in a way which makes it fairly clear he does not really have much grasp of what he is talking about. It also seems clear enough that he is lending himself to a press campaign, as one more mega-phone in a drive to give the widest circulation to a right wing talking point, taking for his part in the chorus that of the speaker in the left of the room.