[Peace] Glenn Greenwald has a principled examination of the recent searches of Project Veritas journalists

[J.B. Nicholson]

Recently there was a "court-ordered search at the New York apartment of the Project 
Veritas founder [James O'Keefe] two days after searching the homes of his associates" 
according to the New York times (2021-11-06). NYT's language in a related article 
from 2021-11-11 is incredibly suspect, as should be expected of that outlet by now.

Glenn Greenwald has a video on these articles and related articles showing how 
hypocritical the NYT and others are:

Video
https://rumble.com/vp9ozz-project-veritas-assange-and-the-authoritarian-decrees-of-who-is-and-is-not-.html
https://youtube.com/watch?v=17rlhtzkcSQ

Transcript (for subscribers only, as you'll see when you visit the page)
https://systemupdate.substack.com/p/video-transcript-project-veritas

The NYT's no-true-Scotsman argument is dangerous and harmful to our freedom under the 
1st Amendment but they're not alone in trying to advance the idea that the 1st 
Amendment is only for an elite subset of Americans. That argument is part of the 
rationale used against journalist Julian Assange and seems to be the wave of the 
future where some journalists are worthy of 1st Amendment protection and other who do 
the work of a journalist aren't really journalists at all (someone who "likes to 
describe himself" as a journalist, as the 2021-11-11 NYT claimed about O'Keefe).

For the NYT, Washington Post, CNN, and other outlets which repeat Russiagate lies, 
published Iraqi WMD claims during the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and ran 
Douma gas attack lies to now reject undercover journalism because undercover work 
involves lying is hilarious hypocrisy.

Greenwald also points out the telling terms used to separate who is and isn't a 
journalist (versus being an "activist", "agitator", or a "blogger"). Another example 
along that line came to my mind: On October 30, 2019 the establishment-serving 
Democracy Now did a comparable attempted reframing or minimization of journalist Max 
Blumenthal, initially called him a "blogger". After complaints DN later changed the 
title of their article to call him a journalist. DN tried to edit their archives to 
reflect this change but the URL they published the article under continues to give 
the game away. I covered this in 
https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2019-December/051702.html and you 
can find that DN article in 
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/10/30/headlines/blogger_max_blumenthal_says_he_was_arrested_on_false_charges 
which still bears the old title where Max Blumenthal is merely a "blogger" in this 
division DN apparently agrees with.