Monday, April 4, 2016

Ed Snowden Coverage: If US mass media were state-controlled, would it look any different?

My June 2013 piece on some of the mainstream media reaction to Snowden and his revelations about widespread NSA surveillance on people not suspected of any crime. NY Times journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin commented: "I'd arrest him [Snowden] and I'd almost arrest Glenn Greenwald." Meet the Press host David Gregory asked Greenwald, "Why shouldn't you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?" (start 1:30)


On the issue of "objective" vs "advocacy" journalism, here's a list of top works of journalism worth studying.

Soon after accepting their Izzy Awards in Ithaca in March 2009 at  the first ever Izzy ceremony, Greenwald and Goodman spoke about independent media on public TV's Bill Moyers' Journal.

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