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Justanotherhuman12/28/2013 11:43:16 am PST

re: #9 Dark_Falcon

it’s a fact that pure non-involved reporting is impossible, as what you report on you also change (this can be considered an illustration of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal in action). But Glenn Greenwald is here going into the territory of Herbert Marcus and claiming ‘real journalists’ have to take action in favor of side inside of just reporting on an issue.

Hey Glenn, they tried out your ideas on this in the 60’s and it didn’t work out very well. Though William Ayers probably liked your speech, I think it was stupid and destructive.

Greenwald’s speech had nothing to do with Ayers or Marcuse.

The fact is, Greenwald is by nobody’s description, except his own, a journalist.

An activist by definition is ideological. Journalism, or reporting, strives to be objective, even though sometimes it leave an impression that it is not. I’ll say it for the millionth time: Opinion and ideology is absolutely not journalism. It is opinion and ideology, even if it appears in a newspaper.