Glenn Greenwald Strikes Fear Into the Heart of Washington
An interesting and revealing quote from the always effervescent Glenn Greenwald, in this New Yorker article about the larger issue of the Guardian’s efforts to stay afloat in the new media sea.
“I wanted people in Washington to have fear in their hearts over how this journalism was going to be done, over the unpredictability of it,” he said. “Of the fact that we were going to be completely unrestrained by the unwritten rules of American journalism.
The only reason we stopped after five days was that even our allies were saying, ‘Look, this is too much information. We can’t keep up with what you’re publishing.’ “