this is an hour
they seem to be choreographed it wears so
for the world is edward snowden
and stunning as this is like
becoming worthy of a
of a uh... john lecarre or
uh...
a robert ludlum
spy thriller you know it's it's its
but it's okay to myself for those
titles but
any case it's it's uh...
quickly to say no reason safe place
cuz i dont worry that he's in a rush in jail
i mean the the long arm the united states is
rape and stuff
or maybe a chinese jail
and shit
president obama has really declared war on whistleblowers ways that at we've
never seen
in in history this country
or rather declared war on leakers sees me i i i can't i don't think i could say
that he stupid war whistleblowers
although
in maya penny and some of these lakers have also been whistleblowers and i
think that in some cases you have to say
the whistle blowing justifies the leaking as part of it
but then i'm not a lawyer and
enough for chile so i'm not the defendant
truck deputized loses from david's rose p ceases later during meet the press
discretionary amita press discussion of green walls reporting nbc's chuck todd
demanded to know
how much was greenwald involved in the plot what was his role that he ever
rotary somebody receiver this information is going to get out the
answer these questions
and david sure this is why didn't check tied as that same question washington
similar to strike down the street rainfall but ask 'em
where this issue to presser bloomberg news
is because they're the establishment
they're not gonna rock the boat
one greenwald is not just a list when he's all about rocking
if you look at the history of american journalism tail back to the
to the the late sixteenth-century
the in particular
they could be presidential campaign of eighteen hundred when john adams reading
as thomas jefferson
take it back to that
or there
and what you will see is that the newspapers work
acting trawl
well no not really actually president jefferson
sudden
i'm paraphrasing for memory here so this is just too close quote that
where i a given the choice between
newspapers of the country or a country with uh... it could be trouble between a
country without newspapers
or newspapers of the country
i wish alicia choose the latter
and uh... and he was on people who is most with department papers
so i would say that if you look at the whole history of american journalism
glenn greenwald is more the norm into the creek
it's all in last couple of decades that we've had concentrated
metal operably monopoly news
and that our news has been sits only really since eighty seven
and arguably since ninety six
that our news has been
eighty-seven being one greatest after force in sherman are the exited the
fairness doctrine
in ninety six b when clinton signed the telecommunications act and privatize the
airwaves
he did say that always says that have we had infotainment instead of yours
and we've had
t_v_ news stars like they were great
instead of reporters
i by the way i get up at
saying things like this is not going to get invited to any washington d_c_
cocktail parties
gave up on that along time ago