Glenn Greenwald

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Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The First Amendment's guarantee of a "free press" doesn't apply to a small, cloistered, credentialed, privileged group licensed as "journalists." It protects an activity that *every citizen* has the right to engage in without reprisals or punishments. — PolitiTweet.org

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Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

When authoritarians want to violate press freedoms but don't want to admit they're doing it, they use the same tactic: "oh, the people we're targeting aren't *journalists*." That's what they did to Assange, now to PV, tried it with us in both the Snowden and Brazil reporting: — PolitiTweet.org

NEW: Brewing battle over political video-sting artist James O’Keefe and Biden daughter’s diary is testing breadth o… https://t.co/zCOe42JUMW

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But if you're one of those authoritarians who justifies the US Government's attack on press activity by claiming the target (Assange, O'Keefe, us in the NSA or Brazil reporting) aren't "real journalists," who determines that? What's your definition for it? — PolitiTweet.org

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