Laura Poitras
Another One Bites the Dust: John Cook Leaves First Look Media, Goes Back To Gawker
A couple of weeks ago, Matt Taibbi departed First Look Media in a torrent of bad blood, leaving Pierre Omidyar's $250-million online journalism start-up to go back to the stability and apparent sanity of Rolling Stone. Just yesterday, Taibbi seemed to breathe a very noticeable ...read more
The Edward Snowden Teaser Trailer is Here, and It's as Melodramatic as You'd Imagine
It might as well be the trailer for the next Jason Bourne movie. The first trailer for Laura Poitras's documentary feature Citizenfour went live today, and it's everything you'd imagine it would be. Ominous, melodramatic, paranoid-times-a-thousand and super serious. The ...read more
A Quick Lesson in Grifting: Glenn Greenwald Edition
Today, Glenn Greenwald tweeted the following announcement about his current employer, First Look Media: Interesting. The Freedom of the Press Foundation received $350,000 from First Look, while the Electronic Frontier Foundation received less than a third of that sum: ...read more
Greenwald's New and Easily-Debunked Claim: NSA Shares Raw American Data with Israel
Predictably, the new "bombshell" article about the National Security Agency, co-authored by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill, is loaded with gaping holes and irresponsible reporting, and yet, once again, nearly every major publication uncritically re-posted it ...read more
How The Guardian is Quietly and Repeatedly Spying on You
It was almost shocking when I first installed a browser add-on called Ghostery and began to click on various articles at The Guardian. With each click, I discovered that this news publication, which has been primarily tasked with reporting on Edward Snowden and top secret ...read more
Glenn Greenwald's Partner Detained By British Security; Was Transporting Top Secret Documents
Early Sunday morning, Glenn Greenwald learned that his Brazilian partner, David Miranda, was detained and interrogated for nine hours by security officials at London's Heathrow airport. The officials also seized Miranda's electronic devices: his phone, laptop and so forth. At ...read more