In a review of Glenn Greenwald’s latest book about Edward Snowden, Michael Kinsley of the NY Times says: “The question is who decides [what to publish]. It seems clear, at least to me, that the private companies that own newspapers, and their employees, should not have the final say over the release of government secrets, and a free pass to make them public with no legal consequences. In a democracy (which, pace Greenwald, we still are), that decision must ultimately be made by the government.”
Read this brilliant response by Barry Eisler at the Freedom Of The Press Foundation here: https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2014/05/journalist-argues-ny-times-publishing-decisions-should-ultimately-be-made-government
Ben Mankiewicz (http://www.twitter.com/benmank77) of The Young Turks discusses this amazing statement by a so called “progressive” journalist at the New York Times.
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This is a joke. Thank TYT for bringing this forward. Hopefully someday there’ll be an echochamber that never lets anyone forget what real journalism is again.