Re: the intercept - corporate US mouthpiece

25 Mar 2017

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On Mar 25, 2017, at 2:22 PM, Razer  wrote:
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On 03/25/2017 11:08 AM, John Newman wrote:
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On Mar 25, 2017, at 12:13 PM, Razer  wrote:
On 03/25/2017 08:40 AM, John Newman wrote:
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On Mar 24, 2017, at 7:08 PM, juan  wrote:
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/24/apple-says-it-fixed-cia-vulnerabilities-...
for people who haven't been paying attention, the majority of articles
published by the intercept are garbage like the one linked above.
one would think greenwald being the founder and editor has some kind of
responsibility for and control over  the government propaganda he
publishes.
notice that the majority of comments on the article are rational and
hostile to that sort of content - yet the intercept doesn't give a fuck
notice also that the 'progressive' 'lefty' intercept is actually a
mouthpice for the flagship of american fascist corporatism, apple inc.
Perhaps hardly surprising if one takes into account that the intercept
is owned by paypal inc.
It seems to me Greenwald & co. used the Snowden revelations for
self-enrichment to a very large degree. I guess you can argue all
day long about their intentions, but there is no doubt the Snowden
shit has been a massive gravy train for the journalists involved….
Not to say I would have stories put back in the bottle, obviously :P
I'd say the Snowden Papers put The_Intercept on the
continuation-of-publishing-viability 'gravy train' anyway. I haven't
seen what @ggreenwald's tax returns look like so I have no way of
judging his, or any of the staff's self-enrichment due to them.
This article
http://frostsnow.com/glenn-greenwald-s-net-worth-is-8-5-billion-know-about-h...
claims his net worth was $8.5 billion dollars in 2013, before the
Snowden papers fell in his lap, so it would seem he just doesn't need
the money that much to swing in his hammock down in Brasil, and he was
the founding partner of a law firm, not a cheap proposition, so his
wealth likely precedes his publishing career. Further, according to
Wikipedia he did his BA in Philosophy at GWU... NOT an inexpensive
school to take a non-career-path Baccalaureate, so it would seem wealth
was in the family before he ever had a career.
Rr
Interesting, I had no idea Greenwald was a BILLIONAIRE - presumably born that way?
Or born with a lot of money and turned into more with legal career?
In any case, changes my perspective a little. have to do some digging ;)
John
He certainly doesn't flaunt his wealth. I'm perhaps a little skeptical
of the $8.5 billion figure but on the other hand net worth is an
interesting calculation that can include intangibles and such.
I think he was born into money. Wikipedia lists his parent's names but
they don't have entries on site so it would take some digging to come up
with biographical information.
Rr
The article actually says 8.5 Million in the body of the piece -

"As per Forbes estimation in 2013, 49 year old Glenn is standing with a net worth of $8.5 million. This figure is supposed to have increased significantly since then."

And the first comment on the page says -

"You dummies have mixed up Greenwald's net worth with that of Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar, who had funded a joint venture with Greenwald. Omidyar is/was worth 8.5 billion."

So i am extremely dubious Greenwald is worth anywhere near 8.5 billion ;)

But the main link still has billion in the URL... maybe they made a
 correction to the body of the article?  

Still, 8.5M is a lot of money. But it's not ultra ruling elite money like 8.5B .....

John