Sun, 25 Apr 2021 10:37 UTC
Review: Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro s Brazil. Haters gonna hate, but Glenn Greenwald s latest is a field guide to bringing home (another) scoop of a lifetimeMy friend Glenn Greenwald has lately become a fixation of American propaganda, playing the role of the traitorous outcast, a cross of Emmanuel Goldstein and Satan. He s inspired a slew of WhitherGreenwald? profiles, often penned in the same plaintive Why does he hate us? tone pundits once reserved for the Islamic enemy. Some have been stunners.
The New Yorker s Bane of Their Resistance piece described Glenn as a gay Carrie, a scorned classmate pouring flamethrower-blasts of childhood trauma on the gentle defenders of Consensus.
Glenn Greenwald
In 2015, I travelled to Sweden for an event with former
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein. It was billed as a conversation about modern journalism between the reporter who had broken the biggest story of the prior generation (Watergate) and the one responsible for the biggest story of the current one (NSA/Snowden revelations).
A couple of years earlier, at the height of the Snowden reporting, Bernstein and I had traded some barbed insults through the media. So before traveling to Sweden, he generously reached out to invite me to dinner in order, essentially, to clear the air so that we could have a civil conversation. The night before the event, we met for dinner at the hotel restaurant. We quickly laughed off the acrimony it had been a couple of years prior, and both of us have had much worse said about us and proceeded to have a perfectly enjoyable conversation.