Why Pierre Omidyar decided to join forces with Glenn Greenwald

Re:Why Pierre Omidyar decided to join forces with Glenn Gree... by detcader on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @01:39PM (#6560977)

Fantastic. (Hopefully it doesn't become a men's club.) Greenwald should bring in Jillian York, onekade, Falguni Sheth, and all the other fantastic journalists trailing behind him.

But what of Democracy Now and Al Jazeera? Are they going to be quasi-competitors in the adversarial journalism game? Greenwald was actually contacted about possible involvement with Al-Jazeera's US TV station but that never went through..

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Re:Why Pierre Omidyar decided to join forces with Glenn Gree... by rollo_tommasi on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @02:09PM (#6561175)

There's no reason to think that Al Jazeera will be a player in the 'adversarial journalism' game. It's a massive media conglomerate just like NBC, CNN, or FoxNews; at best, watching al-Jazeera will just become a way for people to brand themselves as 'independent thinkers'.

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Re:Why Pierre Omidyar decided to join forces with Glenn Gree... by frossie on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @03:29PM (#6561616)

Why not give money to the Guardian to extend their US operations.... they have been doing a stellar job the last few years

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