12/17/08 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show

by | Dec 17, 2008 | Interviews

Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional law and civil rights litigator, discusses Noam Chomsky’s theory of ‘concision‘ in the context of the limited parameters of discussion on television, the ease of spouting platitudes and the difficulty of challenging conventional wisdom on cable news shows, how the Georgian conflict highlighted the unwillingness of the mainstream media to challenge a false premise that has bipartisan support and how Obama’s cabinet appointments were foreshadowed by his support for Joe Lieberman’s Senate candidacy.

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