Greenwald: US, British Media are Servants of Security Apparatus!

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• Greenwald: US, British media are servants of security apparatus! 
  by http://rt.com/
  Journalist Glenn Greenwald condemned the mainstream media during an address at a German computer conference on Friday and accused his colleagues of failing to challenge erroneous remarks routinely made by government officials around the globe.
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  Thousands of attendees at the thirtieth annual Chaos  Communication Congress in Hamburg packed into a room to watch the  46-year-old lawyer-turned-columnist present a keynote address  delivered less than seven months after he started working with  former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
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  Revelations contained in leaked  documents supplied by Snowden to Greenwald and other  journalists have sparked international outrage and efforts to  reform the far-reaching surveillance operations waged by the NSA  and intelligence officials in allied nations. But speaking  remotely from Brazil this week, Greenwald argued that the media  establishment at large is guilty of failing significantly with  respect to accomplishing its most crucial role: keeping  governments in check.
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  When Greenwald and his colleagues began working with Snowden, he  said they realized that they’d have to act in a way that wasn’t  on par with how the mainstream media has acted up until now.
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  “We resolved that we were going to have to be very disruptive  of the status quo — not only the surveillance and political  status quo, but also the journalistic status quo,” Greenwald  said. “And I think one of the ways that you can see what it  is that we were targeting is in the behavior of the media over  the past six months since these revelations have emerged almost  entirely without them and despite them.”
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  “[W]e knew in particular that one of our most formidable  adversaries was not simply going to be the intelligence agencies  on which we were reporting and who we were trying to expose, but  also their most loyal, devoted servants, which calls itself the  United States and British media.”
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  “It really is the case that the United States and British  governments are not only willing but able to engage in any  conduct no matter how grotesque,” Greenwald said.  Nevertheless, he added, journalists tasked with reporting on  those issues have all too often been compliant with the blatant  lies made by officials from those governments.
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  Halfway through his remarks, Greenwald recalled a recent quip he  made while being interviewed by BBC about the necessity of a  functioning media in an environment where government officials  can spew untruths to reporters without being questioned.
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