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Preferably read my earlier diary about the issues – Bloggers pro-Obama and anti-Greenwald – A Distraction on Issue. Do read recent comments – How 2 GCHQ members dropped by at the Guardian’s office and smashed computers to bits.
Nevertheless, here about the non-issue everyone is talking about in the US.
BooMan’s fp story linked to an article by Paul Canning a writer/blogger/activist from London, UK. Canning has harsh criticism for Greenwald’s pro-Iraq War stance. As an activist and voice for the Iraq LGBT community, that may have caused some concern. That Glenn Greenwald and Paul Canning are not on the same page can be seen here and here. The vociferous attack on Glenn Greenwald and his work seems quite outrageous. Greenwald was known for his criticism of the Bush administration on the Human Rights issues. The last three years he has been critical of the Obama administration on the same issues, did the universe change? Canning has been critical of Ms Clinton handling the LGBT issue in Iraq after warnings of pogroms.
Read Greenwald’s Salon article and reference to his book – “Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics” [April 2008].
Of course Greenwald has his shortcomings and he can’t be right in all of his writings. He undoubtedly has voiced an opinion off-topic about an issue he has no leading knowledge about. One example: Glenn Greenwald’s Portman/Obama Comparison on Marriage Equality is Crap.
A recent article at Huffington Post combined with an interview … does Greenwald attract the world’s attention or a combination of his work whether useful or controversial.
Glenn Greenwald, Guardian Reporter, Blasts Media, MSBNC Over Edward Snowden Stories
(Huff Post) July 25, 2013 – Greenwald also took aim at MSNBC on the radio show. He quoted one of the network’s former producers, Jeff Cohen, who recently charged that the network and several of its talk show hosts are protecting the Obama administration in coverage of the NSA story. Cohen is the founder of the media watchdog group FAIR.
“If you’re a loyalist of the Obama administration, as most of MSNBC is,” Greenwald said, “you are desperate to distract attention away from these disclosures.”
In particular, Greenwald criticized MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, who penned an open letter to Snowden:
“We could be talking about whether accessing and monitoring citizen information and communications is constitutional, or whether we should continue to allow a secret court to authorize secret warrants using secret legal opinions. But we’re not. We’re talking about you! And flight paths between Moscow and Venezuela, and how much of a jerk Glenn Greenwald is.”
Noting that Harris-Perry is free to talk about whatever she wants on her show, Greenwald accused the host of being part of a media outlet dedicated to defending the Obama agenda.
Greenwald said that while he received a positive reception from MSNBC when he was reporting on civil liberties abuses during the Bush administration, “the fact that I’ve spent the last three years reporting about the civil liberties abuses of the Obama administration changes the universe for partisan hacks who are on MSNBC, whose role is to defend the president and the White House.”
