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Articles about: Glenn Greenwald

March 5, 2009

Greenwald and Goodman Earn New I.F. Stone Award

FAIR founder Jeff Cohen’s Park Center for Independent Media has decided to give its new Izzy Award (3/4/09) “for special achievement in independent media” to Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman, specifically lauding the “two pillars of independent journalism” for “pathbreaking journalistic courage and persistence in confronting conventional wisdom, official deception and controversial issues”: Week after […]

January 27, 2009

Gabriel Voiles

AP vs. Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments

An Associated Press headline about the “Issue of Terrorists’ Rights to Test Obama’s Pledge” to close the Guantanamo Bay prison facility spurs Salon critic Glenn Greenwald (1/26/09, ad-viewing required) to put a basic journalistic tenet as simply as possible: “The fact that the U.S. Government accuses someone of X does not mean that they are […]

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