Defying Threats to Journalism, Jeremy Scahill & Glenn Greenwald Launch New Venture, The Intercept | Democracy Now!

Defying Threats to Journalism, Jeremy Scahill & Glenn Greenwald Launch New Venture, The Intercept | Democracy Now!

 Investigative journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald join us for
their first interview upon launching The Intercept, their new digital
magazine published by First Look Media, the newly formed media venture
started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Greenwald is the journalist who
first broke the story about Edward Snowden’s disclosures on the National
Security Agency. He was previously a columnist at The Guardian
newspaper. Scahill is producer and writer of the documentary film "Dirty
Wars," which is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary
Feature. "We are really about a journalistic ethos — which is not doing
things like helping the U.S. continue its targeting of U.S. citizens for
death, but by being adversarial to the government," Greenwald says.
"Telling the public what it ought to know, and targeting the most
powerful corporate factions with accountability journalism." Greenwald
and Scahill founded TheIntercept.org with filmmaker Laura Poitras.