Greenwald’s new media venture and the limits of billionaire journalism | ROAR Magazine
A total budget of $250 million to support adversarial journalism. An editorially independent sub-division that aims to report aggressively on corporate and governmental intrusions into people’s personal lives. A non-profit structure that will ensure some degree of autonomy from the market and allow for a focus on high-quality, socially-relevant reporting. And three of the world’s most critical and prolific activist-journalists on national security issues. That’s the tally so far for The Intercept, the new media platform launched — on a humble and somewhat anticlimactic note — by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill on Monday.
The Intercept can deal a
major blow to the ideological apparatus of the security state — but how
far can it go in attacking the privileges of the 1%?
