[9/15/16] Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept, formerly of The Guardian newspaper, laid out in an interview with Slate magazine
that the media in the United States has decided to band together in a
last-ditch effort to stop the rise of 2016 GOP presidential nominee
Donald J. Trump.
Greenwald, the progressive journalist who
broke the Edward Snowden mass government surveillance storyline, was
asked what he thought about Donald Trump’s press conference recently in
which Trump joked that Russia should release any emails it has from 2016
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton’s illicit
private home-brew email server from her time as President Barack Obama’s
Secretary of State.
“What did you think of Trump’s press
conference? You’ve gone after people who you thought were smearing those
denying a Trump-Russia connection, and you’ve used the word McCarthyite
to describe them. But now Trump has encouraged the Russians to find or
release more Hillary Clinton emails,” Slate asked Greenwald.
In his response, Greenwald detailed how
the media in the United States has decided to bloc together against
Trump’s candidacy for the presidency:
OK, so, I am glad you asked about that because this is the conflict that I am currently having: The U.S. media is essentially 100 percent united, vehemently, against Trump, and preventing him from being elected president. I don’t have an actual problem with that because I share the premises on which it is based about why he poses such extreme dangers. But that doesn’t mean that as a journalist, or even just as a citizen, that I am willing to go along with any claim, no matter how fact-free, no matter how irrational, no matter how dangerous it could be, in order to bring Trump down.
Greenwald bashed the New York Times for pushing, in his words, “unmitigated bullsh*t.” He went on to say…CONTINUE READING
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