I have had my disagreements with Glenn Greenwald in terms of tactics and tone from time to time, but I am one hundred percent in agreement with him about the pathetic state of journamilism in this country and the degree to which reporters, particularly on television, wholly identify with the views of the political and financial elite. The scorn heaped upon Wikileaks and Julian Assange by mainstream journalists is a symptom of a press that is filled with courtiers and cheerleaders.
Reporters should be relishing the chance to look at these documents and to see the proverbial foreign policy sausage being made, not arguing for the suppression of information or the imprisonment of leakers or the purveyors of those leaked documents. In so doing, they reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of their societal role (well other than their role of selling paid advertising).
