Greenwald Mocks Time For Person Of The Year Selection...(updated)

[ProSense]

Greenwald Mocks Time For Person Of The Year Selection: 'A Meaningless Award From A Meaningless Magazine'

Glenn Greenwald ridiculed Time on Wednesday for the magazine's decision to name Pope Francis — and not Edward Snowden — its "person of the year" for 2013.

In an email to TPM, Greenwald, who reported extensively on the National Security Agency's top secret surveillance programs revealed by Snowden, said that the selection was motivated by Time's desire to be "relevant" — if only for a moment.

"It's a meaningless award from a meaningless magazine, designed to achieve the impossible: to make TIME relevant and interesting for a few fleeting moments," he wrote.

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TIME Magazine: as edgy, bold, courageous and innovative as ever: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/11/living/time-person-of-the-year/index.html … - Edward Snowden "Runner-up" http://poy.time.com/2013/12/11/runner-up-edward-snowden-the-dark-prophet/ …
7:51 AM - 11 Dec 2013

Person of the Year Runner-Up: Edward Snowden

He pulled off the year's most spectacular heist. Exiled from his country, the 30-year-old computer whiz has become the doomsayer of the information age.
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Greenwald set the stakes for the "person of the year" selection earlier this week, suggesting that Time would be "naming themselves Cowards of the Decade" if Snowden did not receive the distinction.

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If TIME doesn't name Snowden Person of the Year, they're naming themselves Cowards of the Decade http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/12/no-contest-edward-snowden-is-person-of-the-year.html …
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Oh well!

[randome]

1. It should have been ME!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers. It's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

[leftynyc]

2. Of course he is

He was looking for more attention. Sick of this self serving asshole.

[NuclearDem]

3. Fire one shot in the air, say the magic chant, and the invisible ProSense will appear.

Greenwald Snowden Greenwald Snowden not eeeeeeeeeeeVIL!

[ProSense]

5. Well, it didn't take long for you to show how upset you are about this post.

[NuclearDem]

6. Nah, not really.

Glad Greenwald so ruffles your feathers, though.

[ProSense]

8. LOL! OK

Appears Time got to Greenwald's "feathers."

And here you are, upset because someone posted about Greenwald's whine.

LOL!

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. If you give Time Magazine credence for reporting the news

You haven't been paying attention.


Name me one story they broke which you consider important and hard hitting.

[ProSense]

14. Greenwald: "If TIME doesn't name Snowden Person of the Year..."

You: "If you give Time Magazine credence for reporting the news"

I don't read TIME. So I really don't give two shits, but Greenwald is upset.

[NuclearDem]

11. Who said I'm upset?

It's just quite funny that anytime Greenwald so much as farts, you pick up on it and find something to rofl smiley about.

If you don't like Greenwald, then don't feed him attention.

[ProSense]

15. "It's just quite funny that anytime Greenwald so much as farts..."

Well, that's an apt description of his whine.

"If you don't like Greenwald, then don't feed him attention."

Yeah, you're upset.

[snooper2]

4. Greeny may be the biggest attention whore in Brazil

Even bigger than the Andressa Soares-

Also known as the Watermelon Woman

[stevenleser]

7. How can you say that?!? Snowden exposed that Spy agencies Spy! That's earthshattering!!!!!!111!1!!1!

[Blue_Tires]

12. Don't ever change, Glenn...

Jesus fuckin' Christ...EVERY TIME I do a little soul searching and wonder to myself if my longtime criticisms of Greenwald's thin skin, egotism and lack of professionalism have been undeserved or overly harsh (because let's be honest; most of DU has given me a lot of grief for it), he goes and proves me 100% right by pulling some shit like this...

At least the committee of judges for the Pulitzer Prize are fully on notice now...And God help the Academy if Snowden doesn't get an honorary Oscar in March (I'll pay good money in American dollars to see Greenwald storm the stage at the Oscars for his "Kanye West" moment)...

I'm not on twitter, but I'm going to sign up just to troll the ever-living fuck out of him....He just makes himself too ripe and juicy of a target...

[WinkyDink]

13. Maybe TIME wants to stay in business. ;-)

[tridim]

16. Maybe the next person Glenn uses and abuses for personal profit will win?

I can hear his massive ego deflating as I type.

[ucrdem]

17. You're still big, Glenn ...

It's the pictures that got smaller

[WilliamPitt]

18. ...soooooooooo, wait a sec here...

...if Snowden had been named Person of the Year, it would not be a meaningless award from a meaningless magazine?

I have admired his journalism for years, but I think his ego has achieved planetary proportions.

Obtain thyself a grip, Mr. Greenwald. Look around you; there is nothing, but nothing, in orbit around you, save for what appear to be a few oversized opinions of yourself.

[onenote]

26. +1

[SidDithers]

19. Greeenwald. LOL...nt

Sid

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

20. Is the NSA still spying on the Vatican? Is the Pope a designated terrorist?

[mstinamotorcity2]

21. Snowden is a man I don't understand.

I still feel like he should have went to the oversight committee with this. I am not well versed on NSA rules. I do know we have too many people with security clearances. Which leads me back to the biggest expansion of Government during the Dubya/Shooter era. And with all these private contractors don't we risk something of this nature happening again??? To me it seems Greenwald wants to keep Snowden relevant. I appreciate Greenwald's exposure of the problem but its not like I didn't have some inkling to what was going on I mean we have known about Dubya/Shooter and warrantless wiretapping for years. And since a lot of these policies started during the Dubya/Shooter era, won't it take a little more than an executive order to stop them??? Inquiring minds want to know?

[randome]

22. He talked his coworkers into giving him their passwords.

That's still a poor security arrangement but I doubt contractors normally have unfettered access to internal data.

I'm pretty sure the fiance he abandoned didn't understand him, either.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[mstinamotorcity2]

24. I just don't get why

ever one is acting so shocked about the information he leaked. I just feel like if I had an idea of what was going on, I know other people felt the same way. The warrantless wiretapping been had my antenna's up.

[randome]

33. To be fair, I don't impugn the motives of those who want to rally 'round Greenwald & Snowden.

I think this country is badly in need of heroes and when something is 'revealed' about the NSA, many focus on it and lose perspective.

Maybe after decades of Reaganomics, we've become too dispirited to seek out and support the really BIG things that need our attention.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[MineralMan]

23. Clearly, Glenn Greenwald should have been Time's

Person of the Year. I can't imagine why Time missed their opportunity.

[Blue_Tires]

25. +1...Because at the end of the day, *THAT* is what this is really all about...

I'm just grateful that there are 'real' journalists (you know, the old-school conventional types that Greenwald hates because it's such an outdated paradigm) keeping their heads down and quietly doing excellent work on the NSA story without the sensationalist attention whoring and glory seeking....

[Number23]

38. Exactly. Any "journalist" that spends 80% of the time making THEMSELVES the damn story

is no journalist at all. He is past the point of making himself a walking pun now.

I can understand Glenn being disappointed. But disappointment isn't enough, he has to launch personal attacks and swim in the deep waters of the Asshole Abyss. I am really, really getting sick of his shit.

[geek tragedy]

27. Why not go John Lennon and say that Snowden is bigger than Jesus? nt

[Gothmog]

28. I really do not care what Greenwald thinks

I am sorry but I am not one of his fans

[grantcart]

29. lol

Really that is funny.

I wonder if Snowden is beginning to wonder about all of the wonderful promises that he must have heard from Glenn.

If I was the guy about to write a $ 250 million dollar check to start a media organization with GG at the center of it I would be having some serious second thoughts about now.

[Rex]

30. So Snowden is bigger than the Pope?

GG seems to think this is all a game. Who the fuck cares what person TIME picks!? Who even reads that rag anymore?

[Tanuki]

31. Where did you get a baby pic of Julian Assange? n/t

[Historic NY]

32. He certainly is full of himself, isn't he.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

34. Undoubtedly his tweets and other responses would have

Been identical had Snowden been named.

The guy is a hack, but it sure is easy to push his buttons.

[otohara]

35. Always A Douchebag

can't stand him.

[1StrongBlackMan]

36. Maybe I haven't been paying attention; but ...

it seems weeks since GG did a "Must stay relevant" tweet.

[Number23]

37. Haven't said this in EONS but MAD props to Time Magazine. And props to Skraxx too for that matter!