By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--June 11, 2013
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"We are going to have a lot more significant revelations that have not yet been heard over the next several weeks and months," said Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian. Greenwald told The Associated Press the decision was being made on when to release the next story based on the information provided by Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old employee of government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton who has been accused by U.S. Senate intelligence chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California of committing an "act of treason" that should be prosecuted. Greenwald's reports last week exposed widespread U.S. government programs to collect telephone and Internet records. "There are dozens of stories generated by the documents he provided, and we intend to pursue every last one of them," Greenwald said.Click the link and you'll see a photo of an AP camera crew interviewing Greenwald. The media interviewing a member of the media about a story he's working on, but is not yet ready to publish? Any serious journalist should have a problem with this. If you're working on a bona fide story, the only reason to hold back on publishing it is that you haven't yet done enough work to know you've got a real story. And if that's the case, you don't go around telling everyone the story is coming. When you do that, you pre-judge the outcome of your own reporting work. If Greenwald is sure he has a story now, then let's see it. Otherwise he's just being a tease, and that might be an effective way to get attention - the AP certainly seems willing to play along - but it's not how you do serious journalism.
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