Greenwald: 'Not healthy to Repress Information'

Since the release of journalist Michael Hastings' article in Rolling Stone, which ultimately lost General Stanley McChrystal his job, there has been a debate among journalists. Alyona asks, was Hastings right or wrong in adding in the 'trash talk' that he overheard into his article? Is that true, un-objective reporting, "real journalism"? Is the face of journalism changing? Glenn Greenwald from Salon.com weights in to discuss the role of media and explains how people in power need the media.

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[MEpianist]

Fuck Lara Logan, she deserved it!

[psustudent919]

alyona is an idiot for disagreeing with glenn. everything he says and stands for is the best so for alyona to challenge glenn is ludicrous and she didnt even give him a chance to debate that but of course atleast glenn was smart to address it anyway alyona get your shit together she seems to have a nice rack tho

[backwardsandforwards]

Whats wrong with appearing on RT? If you can't find a network without a blatent political agenda then why not balance the extremes? Is RT more biased than FOX or MSNBC?

And I love the feigned outrage at the "breach of trust" by Micheal hastings when he did accurate reporting instead of respecting imaginary and implied groundrules that turn the american press corps into a mouthpiece for the goverment and the military.

[Hackney08001]

This is a priceless piece of grotesque Orwellian hypocrisy. The nauseatingly self-righteous Glenn Greenwald talking about immoral and subservient journalism on a channel funded by the Russian government, which has brutally cracked down on anything resembling independent journalism at home, while the Miley Cyrus of state-controlled propaganda nods along in agreement. What a pair of clowns.

[PlainSight52]

Listen up Alyona, I've heard this guy and he knows his shit. Think of it like this as a journalist if you allow officials to treat you like a dog then their only going to throw you a treat every now and then. If you damand that it's your right and duty to disclose to the public, then your just doing your job if officials hate you for that it's probably because their not doing theirs. And I don't know about you but I have far more respect for a worthy adversary than a passive opponent.

[777Lazerus]

If they weren't so corrupt, they shouldn;t have anything to worry about. Plus, more Americans killed journalists in Iraq than in Vietnam and WW1, & WW2 combined.