Glenn Greenwald comments on the speech scheduling controversy

[Enrique]

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/08/31/media

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Thankfully, we have a free and adversarial watchdog media in this nation to sort out the competing claims and to keep the citizenry informed and focused with respect to the Wednesday/Thursday conflict, which is what produced this aforementioned Tweet:



Also today, this report appeared, referring to this U.S. diplomatic cable released this week (click image to enlarge):



Chuck Todd won't be going on "#Hardball" -- or any other television news program -- to discuss that story, nor will virtually anyone else be doing so (such matters will not be mentioned at all, except to explain how it is WikiLeaks are the Real Criminals). And that contrast explains virtually everything there is to say; as I said earlier today as this speech scheduling crisis emerged: "I hope this Tuesday v. Wednesday drama goes on for at least a week - will be so valuable for historians trying to explain things."

[lillypaddle]

1. yeah, but ...

all hail Glenn Greenwald!!!!

[spanone]

2. i believe our media is broken way beyond repair.

they have become a large part of the problem.

[xchrom]

3. Recommend

[Major Hogwash]

4. ". . . we have a free and adversarial watchdog media in this nation . . ."

Which one is that? Which country is Glenn referring to?

[EFerrari]

5. We call that "irony".

[Enrique]

6. yep

[EFerrari]

7. I just saw Greenwald at FAIR's 25th anniversary

on LinkTv. He was there with Amy, Mike Moore and Noam Chomsky. His speech is up on YouTube in 3 parts. It's excellent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38rruJet2D0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZWMDdUNxtY&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiUPWt9soMc