So did TI consider you a "blogger" when bringing you on-board in 2014?
Why I Left The Intercept: The Surveillance Story They Let Go Untold for 15 Months https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/01/03/why-i-left-the-intercept-the-surveillance-story-they-let-go-untold-for-15-months/ …
-
-
-
Actually worse. They referred a researcher or something. They refused to use the word journalist with me.
-
Or maybe they used the word analyst. I don't remember. It was a sordid affair all around.
-
Here it is: "Senior Policy Analyst." https://web.archive.org/web/20140210072001/https://firstlook.org/theintercept/about …
- End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
I appreciate many things about the Intercept, but this has such a wash of old school sexism. Where were your peers, the 'good guys' when all this was happening?? Thank you for all your work + for sharing this w us now
-
It was more old school snobbery about "journalism" from Cook.
-
Not sure Cook of all people has a leg to stand on re: old school journalism
-
Actually he prolly just didn't like me or my confidence that I had something the Intercept needed.
-
Maybe you don't know the answer to this, but since it seems that
@ggreenwald knows you're the best at what you do (as do I), I can't understand why he didn't 'go to bat' for you and override@johnjcook
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
what is the best way to sponsor your continued work ?
-
Recurring donations! https://www.emptywheel.net/support/
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Risen never mentions Jeffrey Sterling and no reporter asks him.
@jeremyscahill didn’t bring it up in today’s Podcast. Meanwhile Jeffrey sits in prison. -
Risen mentioned it in his piece. Just not this precedent. https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/06/22/in-opinion-mostly-rejecting-jeffrey-sterling-appeal-fourth-circuit-criminalizes-unclassified-tips/ …
-
Thank you Marcy. I had sent your piece to Holly Sterling when you published it. Jeffrey is released from CO prison on 1/16. He’s in a halfway house in STL near Holly til June. I hope we can bring more awareness for him. Risen can’t talk about JS.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
I’ve come to find out the blogger/journalist distinction is more common than publications allow, in terms of pay and such. Seen it a number of times!
-
Yeah. It gets further exacerbated bc I am document focused. People like to invent a slew of words to describe what I do, in part so they can steal my work.
-
...which makes you much preferable to 'source-focused' approaches that just led us into "we can't actually reveal the documents we have to protect our agreement with our source" nonsense
- 1 more reply
New conversation -
-
-
So this sure does make it sound like the Snowden docs have been privatized by a media company. Do you feel that way at all?
-
No. Access to docs now is very different than it was in 2014.
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.