You by no means need to be a supporter of Socialism to get something major out of this address by Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald last Thursday June 27th.
Greenwald, along with former NYTimes and current Truthdig reporter and author Christopher Hedges, journalists Jeremy Scahill …and Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi are among the very few who perform what a journalist’s true function is: to report the news as honestly and thoroughly as they know how because they believe that the public- that’s you and me- MUST know what the actions and intents of it’s supposedly freely elected government are doing in the name of we the people.
Without someone performing this function we, as a people, are blind.
If you depend on someone like NBC’s “Meet the Press” talking head, David Gregory, who is a self-aggrandizing nincompoop and a cowardly lackey, or- God forbid- Larry King- a man I used to like when he was probably the last major voice on radio (in the late 1970s-early 1980s) in the USA before Rush Limbaugh inherited that title- but who has been an irrelevancy spending his last years as an old pimp for a mass media he probably knows is comprised of liars- you can expect to remain in the dark for the rest of your lives. But I think I know that the people who venture into my little web corner of the world are still those people with a spark of real life in their eyes and souls.
The video is not the best quality and Greenwald’s talk is via Skype- which I take is a preferred technology when discussing matters with a largely unclothed person on the other end of a web interaction. The latter is something I wouldn’t know about directly because it’s a cam-to-cam interaction and I would be horrified to have the object of a momentary lust have to gaze back at me, no doubt thinking- “gawd- I hope something like that doesn’t happen to ME!”.
By the way I’m not sure why the woman chairing the meeting is shouting into the screen – perhaps someone told her the microphones were out. Either that or she’s distantly related to Ethel Merman. 
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I think it might be fun having a conversation with the chairwoman. Thank God for the Internet. I would have no idea what was going on in the World otherwise. That’s why it’s so important to keep the noodle free of censorship or spying by our government. Now I know what Skype looks like. I actually cover my camera on the computer because I read there was a hack where the camera could be turned on without the person knowing it. I do need some privacy.
For some reason, politically passionate people often yell. The others, the less passionate, are often there for their own profit (I say this as if it was news to you ). Thanks for the link to the video. I got up to 30 minutes into it and I’ll try to listen to the rest later.Speaking of bad journalism, I thought about you last night when Stephen Colbert was blasting cable news, saying (my words) that cable news are only there to tell people what they already think.
Finished listening to the rest of Greenwald’s adress. Was worth it.
I still have to answer you on Bradley Manning, and now we’ve got another leaker. I’m never going to catch up at this rate! I was only able to get about 30 minutes into the thing and haven’t seen the rest yet, but I wasn’t quite as impressed. A lot of ad hominem (and over-the-top) attacks on the establishment in general and an impressionistic portrait of Snowden in particular was as far (and as much) as I got, but not much to agree with, as sympathetic as I am with the concerns and the point of view.Surely you’ve noticed, though, lost in the shuffle over Trayvon Martin, Detroit, and the royal baby, that the judge in Manning’s trial upheld the aiding the enemy charge. That really is outrageous and too much.