Tag Archives: Glenn Greenwald

Pundits, and Thus Pols: 'Pathologically' Blameless

Posted on 06/02/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Writing on Salon (5/31/09, ad-viewing required) of the "controversy surrounding Jeffrey Rosen's New Republic anonymity-driven smear attack on Sonia Sotomayor's intellect and character," Glenn Greenwald sees more evidence that the one trait that defines establishment pundits more than any other … Continue reading →

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Brookings Institution: 'Liberal,' Centrist… or Extremist?

Posted on 05/26/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Poking holes in the Brookings Institution's "preening conceit"–"they bequeath their website with an '.edu' suffix… They are 'scholars.' Just ask them and they'll tell you"–Salon's Glenn Greenwald (5/26/09, ad-viewing required) quotes one blogger fundamentally debunking Brookings mainstay William Glaberson's May … Continue reading →

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Media Cheer Obama Moves Toward Bush's 'Center'

Posted on 05/20/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Salon's Glenn Greenwald (5/19/09, ad-viewing required) "gives the lie to the collective national claim that we learned our lesson and are now regretful about the Bush/Cheney approach to terrorism": Republicans are right about the fact that while it was Bush … Continue reading →

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Monica Crowley: 'Young People Are Gravitating to the GOP'

Posted on 05/15/2009 by Steve Rendall

While Glenn Greenwald and Camille Paglia catch us up on the increasingly hateful and dangerous language emanating from conservative talk radio–including Mark Levin show substitute host Andrew Wilkow repeatedly calling a gay man a "vile sodomite" and Limbaugh sub Mark … Continue reading →

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NYT Names 'Harsh Tactics' as 'Torture' — by Chinese

Posted on 05/09/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald gets the site's lead story today (5/8/09, ad-viewing required) with an excerpt from the New York Times obituary for U.S. fighter pilot Harold E. Fischer Jr., who, as the Times headline puts it, was "Tortured in … Continue reading →

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And Now, From the 'Hard Left': Ronald Reagan

Posted on 05/02/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

In his latest Salon blog entry (5/1/09, ad-viewing required), Glenn Greenwald displays his find of "a perfect illustration of how severely our political spectrum has shifted in the last two decades and how depraved and extremist our political and media … Continue reading →

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NYT, ABC and Waterboarding: An Update

Posted on 04/28/2009 by Peter Hart

We noted recently that a New York Times story about the waterboarding of two Al-Qaeda detainees included a bit of media criticism. The Times mentioned that in 2007, ABC featured an interview with former CIA officer John Kiriakou,who claimed that"Abu … Continue reading →

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Torture Memos Bring Out True Allegiances of MSM

Posted on 04/26/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Writing at Salon (4/23/09, ad-viewing required) of how the "sheer criminality" of George W. Bush-era torture, "really for the first time, has exploded into mainstream political debates," Glenn Greenwald is thoroughly unsurprised by their behavior as "media stars are forced … Continue reading →

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On the Rare Journalistic Habit of 'Thinking Independently'

Posted on 04/22/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

On the occasion of the first annual Izzy Awards from Jeff Cohen's Park Center for Independent Media, the son of progressive journalism icon I.F. Stone, Jeremy Stone (Consortium News, 4/1/09), describes Stone's most journalistically valuable quality–"his capacity for thinking independently"–along … Continue reading →

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Unaccountability: 'A Trans-Partisan Religious Tenet of Beltway Culture'

Posted on 04/22/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Blogging from his regular Salon perch (4/20/09, ad-viewing required), Glenn Greenwald notes that the public wants to investigate U.S. torture (that's what the polls tell us), but: These facts about public opinion are virtually always excluded from establishment media discussions, … Continue reading →

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On Pundits' 'Unhinged Notion' of the U.S. as 'Human Rights Arbiter'

Posted on 03/10/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

In his regular Salon feature (3/10/09, ad-viewing required), Glenn Greenwald is having a hard time stomaching corporate media pundits' righteous "lectures to other countries": The Washington Post's Fred Hiatt today condemns the Obama administration generally and Hillary Clinton specifically for … Continue reading →

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Greenwald and Goodman Earn New I.F. Stone Award

Posted on 03/05/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

FAIR founder Jeff Cohen's Park Center for Independent Media has decided to give its new Izzy Award (3/4/09) "for special achievement in independent media" to Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman, specifically lauding the "two pillars of independent journalism" for "pathbreaking … Continue reading →

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