In Memoriam: David McReynolds, the Gay Socialist Pacifist Who Twice Ran for Print, Di at 88

IN MEMORIAM: DAVID MCREYNOLDS, THE GAY SOCIALIST PACIFIST WHO TWICE RAN FOR PRINT, DI AT 88
INTERCEPT STAFFERS ROLL THEIR EY OVER GLENN GREENWALD’S CENSORSHIP CLAIMWAR OF WORDSGLENN GREENWALD HAD THE EEDOM TO PUBLISH ALMOST ANYTHG HE WANTED AT THE INTERCEPT. THEN HE CRIED CENSORSHIP.MAXWELL TANIMEDIA REPORTERUPDATED NOV. 01, 2020 5:49PM EST / PUBLISHED OCT. 31, 2020 2:50PM EDT REUTERSGLENN GREENWALD OFFICIALLY LEFT THE INTERCEPT ON THURSDAY, PLAG OF CENSORSHIP AND HEAVY-HAND EDG.IT WAS AN EYE-ROLLG MOMENT FOR MANY AT THE INTERCEPT. MULTIPLE STAFFERS AT THE OUTLET POTED OUT THAT, SPE HIS OBJECTNS TO EDG OM ABOVE, GREENWALD WAS ULTIMATELY ONE OF THE LEAST-EDED WRERS AT THE SE. WHILE THE EDG PROCS AROUND HIS WORK VARIED—HIS LENGTHIER, OFTEN-REPORTED PIEC TEND TO GET EDORIAL SCTY, WHILE HIS LUMNS DID NOT—GREENWALD WOULD OFTEN ANNOUNCE TERNAL PANY CHANNELS THAT HE WAS PLANNG TO PUBLISH LUMNS, G PY EDORS TO SCRAMBLE AT THE LAST MUTE TO, AS ONE EDOR PUT , “FIX BROKEN SENTENC AND DANGLERS AND MODIFIERS AND WORD SALAD THAT HE WOULD GENERATE.”TOP EDORS WERE SOMEWHAT UNFORTABLE WH THE LEEWAY AFFORD TO GREENWALD, BUT HIS STAT AS A -FOUNR OF THE PLACE, ALONG WH PRETERMED NTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS, ALLOWED HIM FAIRLY BROAD DISCRETN OVER HIS EDORIAL WORK. GREENWALD TOLD THE DAILY BEAST A TELEPHONE TERVIEW THAT HIS NTRACT ALLOWED HIM TO SELF-PUBLISH EXCEPT STANC THAT MAY PUT THE PUBLITN AT LEGAL RISK, AND STANC WHERE THE SUBJECT MATTER VOLVED ORIGAL REPORTG THAT WAS OF AN “UNUALLY PLEX NATURE.” WHILE REED BELIEVED THAT THE PIECE MET THE SEND THRHOLD, GREENWALD DID NOT.GREENWALD—WHO FOUND THE INTERCEPT 2013 WH FELLOW JOURNALISTS LRA PORAS AND JEREMY SHILL, WH FUNDG OM EBAY CHAIRMAN PIERRE OMIDYAR’S FIRST LOOK MEDIA—ABPTLY ANNOUNCED HIS EX PROTT OF WHAT HE CLAIMED WAS “REPRSN, CENSORSHIP AND IOLOGIL HOMOGENEY” AT THE DIGAL-MEDIA PUBLITN. HE SPECIFILLY CLAIMED THE INTERCEPT SILENCED HIM AND EP-SIXED HIS LUMN ON HUNTER BIN BEE THE EDORS “VEHEMENTLY” WANTED JOE BIN TO FEAT PRINT DONALD TMP THE ELECTN. THE MOVE SET UP A HIGHLY PUBLIC BACK-AND-FORTH BETWEEN GREENWALD, A WRER WHO HAS NEVER SHIED OM A FIGHT, AND THE LEARS OF THE PUBLITN HE HELPED TABLISH WH SIARLY PUGNAC VALU MD.EDOR--CHIEF BETSY REED WROTE A STATEMENT, WHICH WAS REVIEWED ADVANCE BY SEVERAL TOP EDORS, THAT GREENWALD’S CLAIMS WERE “TEEMG WH DISTORTNS AND ACCURACI—ALL OF THEM SIGNED TO MAKE HIM APPEAR AS A VICTIM, RATHER THAN A GROWN PERSON THROWG A TANTM.”SHE ADD: “IT IS IMPORTANT TO MAKE CLEAR THAT OUR GOAL EDG HIS WORK WAS TO ENSURE THAT WOULD BE ACCURATE AND FAIR,” SHE SAID. “WHILE HE ACC OF POLIL BIAS, WAS HE WHO WAS ATTEMPTG TO RECYCLE THE DUB CLAIMS OF A POLIL MPAIGN—THE TMP MPAIGN—AND LNR THEM AS JOURNALISM.”GREENWALD PUBLISHED THE DRAFT QUTN ALONG WH THE EMAIL EXCHANGE THAT PRECIPATED HIS PARTURE, WHICH EDOR PETER MAASS EXPLAED AT LENGTH WHAT HE SAW AS FLAWS GREENWALD’S PIECE, ALONG WH A SUGGTN TO NARROW HIS FOC ON MEDIA CRICISM OF THE HUNTER BIN VERAGE RATHER THAN AN EXAMATN OF THE RMATN BEG LNRED BY RIGHT-WG OPERATIV. ON WEDNDAY MORNG, GREENWALD ACCED MAASS OF CENSORSHIP AND SPIRALED OM THERE.REED TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT SHE AND GREENWALD IALLY DISCSED THE LUMN IA, AND TEAMED UP FOR THE PIECE WH WASHGTON D.C. BURE CHIEF RYAN GRIM, WHO SAID ON TWTER ON THURSDAY THAT HE AND GREENWALD CID TO WRE SEPARATE PIEC BEE OF THEIR DIVERGG TERTS THE HUNTER BIN SAGA. “IT WAS ONE THG TO APPEAR ON THE MURDOCH-OWNED WORK; WAS QUE ANOTHER TO PLAY HYPE MAN TO S MOST TOXIC TMP CHEERLEAR.” GREENWALD IALLY AGREED WH REED TO HAVE HIS HUNTER BIN LUMN EDED. HE AND REED HAD DISCSNS ABOUT THE PIECE ON THE PHONE AND VIA SLACK, AND THE PIECE WAS FILED TO MAASS, A VETERAN CHRONICLER OF GLOBAL NFLICT WHO WAS THE REGULAR EDOR FOR GREENWALD’S MORE -PTH REPORTED PIEC. MAASS WAS TAKEN ABACK WHEN AFTER SEEMG TO AT FIRST SIMPLY DISAGREE WH EDS, GREENWALD LATER CLARED THE PIECE WAS BEG CENSORED AND SUPPRSED.“GLENN’S RPONSE THAT EVENG WAS NOT SURPRISG, BUT WAS NSTCTIVE,” MAASS SAID OF GREENWALD’S IAL EMAIL AFTER RECEIVG EDS, WHICH DID NOT CLU ANY ACCATNS OF CENSORSHIP. “HE WAS ENGAGED THE PROCS. THE NOTE THAT HE SENT WEDNDAY MORNG—THAT WAS HIM BLOWG UP THE PROCS. AND THAT WAS REALLY SURPRISG GIVEN WHEN HE SAID TUDAY EVENG.”IN A SERI OF EMAIL AND TELEPHONE EXCHANG WH THE DAILY BEAST, GREENWALD AGA CLAIMED THAT THE PUBLITN HAD CID TO ED HIM BEE WAS VTED TIPPG THE SL BIN’S FAVOR. HE FURTHER ALLEGED THAT HIS TIME WORKG AT THE INTERCEPT, HE HAD NEVER RECEIVED ANY EDS LIKE THE LENGTHY NOTE MAASS SENT.“PEOPLE ARE EE TO BELIEVE THAT’S NOT A GOOD WAY TO WORK FOR THEM, BUT I WOULD NEVER WORK ANYWHERE THAT DID NOT GUARANTEE THAT EEDOM,” GREENWALD SAID OF HIS EDORIAL ARRANGEMENT. “THE INTERCEPT DID GUARANTEE , WHICH IS WHY THEIR SUDN EAGERNS TO APPLY SO MUCH EDORIAL SCTY TO THIS PARTICULAR STORY VLATN OF BOTH MY NTRACT AND THE WAY WE’VE ALWAYS WORKED —FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER—MA SO CLEAR THAT THE IMPULSE WAS ONE OF CENSORSHIP.”WHILE GREENWALD’S PARTURE OM THE PUBLITN WAS SEEMGLY SUDN, DISNTENT BETWEEN THE PULZER-WNG WRER AND MANY LLEAGU AT THE PUBLITN HE -FOUND HAD BEEN BREWG FOR YEARS, SOURC SAID.FOR HIS PART, GREENWALD HAD CREASGLY DIFFERG VIEWS WH WRERS AT THE PUBLITN ABOUT A NUMBER OF ISSU, MOST NOTABLY THE VERAGE OF RSIAN TERFERENCE THE 2016 ELECTN AND S FALLOUT. HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT HE WAS CREASGLY NCERNED THAT THE INTERCEPT WAS “PUBLISHG WHATEVER ANTI-TMP AGPROP POPS UP ON TWTER,” SAYG THAT HE EXPRSED TO REED NCERNS ABOUT A RECENT STORY THAT GREENWALD FELT MISCHARACTERIZED VOLUNTARY HYSTERECTOMI AT AN IMMIGRATN AND CTOMS ENFORCEMENT CENTER AS WELL AS A REPORT ABOUT TMP IGNORG TELLIGENCE SUGGTG THAT RSIA HAD PLACED BOUNTI ON U.S. SOLDIERS AFGHANISTAN.BUT HIS UNRELENTGLY BATIVE AND AT-TIM MEANG MENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA ALSO BBED SOME EMPLOYE THE WRONG WAY. HIS TWEETS OFTEN WOUND UP VLATG THE EY OF THE INTERCEPT’S EDORS THE SOCIAL-MEDIA GUIL SET OUT BY THE PUBLITN, WHICH ENURAG EMPLOYE TO “ENGAGE ROBT, RPECTFUL DISURSE WH EACH OTHER AND WH MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC,” BUT “ENURAG STAFF MEMBERS TO ADDRS DISAGREEMENTS DIRECTLY WH LLEAGU RATHER THAN AIRG THEM PUBLICLY, AND WEL A DIVERSY OF VIEWPOTS OUR NEWSROOM.” INTERCEPT EMPLOYE SAID GREENWALD’S DISREGARD FOR THE POLICI RENRED THE GUIL NEARLY UNENFORCEABLE, ENURAGG OTHER STAFF TO FOLLOW SU AND FLOUT THEM AS WELL—CREATG A HEADACHE FOR NEWSROOM LEARS.ACRDG TO REED, GREENWALD PRIVATELY CLAIMED HE MA ENORMO EFFORTS NOT TO CRICIZE OTHER INTERCEPT STAFFERS. AND MANY OF HIS PLENTIFUL TWTER BAT WH LLEAGU DID STAY LARGELY CIVIL, EVEN THOUGH GREENWALD DID NOT ALWAYS TAKE KDLY TO WHAT HE PERCEIVED AS PUBLIC CRICISM BY HIS -WORKERS. (AT ONE POT, GREENWALD BLOCKED SEVERAL STAFFERS WHO FOLLOWED AN ACUNT POKG FUN AT HIM. GREENWALD SAID HE DID NOT REMEMBER BLOCKG ANY STAFFERS WHILE THEY WERE AT THE INTERCEPT, BUT ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE MAY NOT REMEMBER DOG SO, OR HAD BLOCKED THEM BEFORE THEY WORKED WH HIM.) BUT REED ACKNOWLEDGED THAT ALTHOUGH GREENWALD’S PUBLIC DISPUT WH STAFF WERE SOMEWHAT EQUENT, WHEN DISCSG EDS OR NCERNS ABOUT SOCIAL-MEDIA PRACTIC WH SOME STAFFERS, “THEY WOULD SORT OF BE ABLE TO POT TO GLENN AND THAT WE HAD A TOTAL DOUBLE STANDARD AND THAT HE WAS ABLE TO DO WHATEVER HE WANTED.”“I THK WE DID MAKE PROGRS TOWARD HAVG A MORE HEALTHY TERNAL DIALOGUE AND BATE ABOUT ISSU WHERE PEOPLE DISAGREED,” SHE SAID. “BUT WAS FELY SOMETHG WHERE WAS DIFFICULT TO MANAGE.”LAST YEAR, FOR EXAMPLE, HE IRKED INTERCEPT LLEAGU AFTER HE PUBLICLY MOCKED AN IATIVE BY FIRST LOOK’S DIVERSY MTEE TO CLU PRONOUNS SLACK BS, AND SGLED OUT A FIRST LOOK STAFFER WHO IS NON-BARY AND HAD BEEN CRIL OF GREENWALD ON TWTER.“I WOULD LERALLY, LIKE, LOSE AN EYE BEFORE I PLIED WH THIS,” HE SAID OF THE IATIVE ON THE GIRLS CHAT PODST. “I PROBABLY WOULDN’T POKE OUT BOTH MY EY, SO I DIDN’T WANT TO E HYPERBOLE, BUT I WOULD RATHER BE WHOUT ONE OF MY EY THAN SUBM TO THIS.”FOR HIS PART, GREENWALD SAID NO ONE AT THE INTERCEPT EVER RAISED NCERNS TO HIM THAT HE WAS VLATG THE PANY’S SOCIAL-MEDIA GUIL, WHICH HE SAID HE WOULDN’T HAVE FOLLOWED ANYWAY BEE HE DISAGREED WH THEM.“AS FOR THE GIRLS CHAT: THERE WAS AN EMPLOYEE OF FIRST LOOK MEDIA, NOT AT THE INTERCEPT, WHO CRICIZED ME ON TWTER, AND WHEN I RPOND, I ED THE ‘HE’ PRONOUN BEE THAT’S HOW THIS WRER HAD ALWAYS INTIFIED,” HE SAID. “UNBEKNOWNST TO ME, THEY HAD ANNOUNCED A PRONOUN CHANGE ONLY A UPLE MONTHS EARLIER, WHICH I DIDN’T KNOW, SO THE ‘MIS-GENRG’ WAS PURELY UNTENTNAL. I WAS PARTICULARLY ANGRY ABOUT BEE I’VE LONG BEEN THE ONLY OPENLY GAY JOURNALIST AT THE INTERCEPT—OVER 7 YEARS, NOT A SGLE OTHER ONE HAS BEEN HIRED—AND SO THE IA THAT I WAS OPPRSG SOMEONE WHO HAD JT ANNOUNCED NON-BARY STAT 3 MONTHS EARLIER WAS OFFENSIVE. IT’S THE INTERCEPT WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE ISSU WH OPENLY GAY JOURNALISTS.”FURTHERMORE, GREENWALD’S EQUENT FOX NEWS APPEARANC—PECIALLY ON WHE NATNALIST-IENDLY TUCKER CARLSON’S PRIMETIME SHOW—WERE A SOURCE OF NCERN FOR NEWSROOM LEARS. STAFF FELT THAT GREENWALD’S DISTASTE FOR LIBERALS, CENTRISTS, AND MASTREAM MEDIA ALLOWED HIM TO BEE A EFUL STOOGE FOR THE WORK, WHERE HIS APPEARANC EQUENTLY FOCED ON BASHG DEMOCRATS, FORMER OBAMA TELLIGENCE OFFICIALS, AND FOX’S MEDIA RIVALS. IT WAS ONE THG TO APPEAR ON THE MURDOCH-OWNED WORK; WAS QUE ANOTHER TO PLAY HYPE MAN TO S MOST TOXIC TMP CHEERLEAR.REED SAID SHE DID NOT DISURAGE HIS EQUENT APPEARANC ON CARLSON’S SHOW, BUT ACKNOWLEDGED THAT GREENWALD’S FOX NEWS REGULARY WAS “FELY A SOURCE OF REAL TENSN AND NCERN.”“I TAKE SERLY THE ISSU OF EEDOM OF EXPRSN,” REED SAID. “I ALSO KNOW THAT HAD I EVER TOLD HIM NOT TO APPEAR ON TUCKER CARLSON, THAT WOULD BE THE ONE SUREFIRE WAY HE ULD BE BOOKED FOR THE NEXT OPPORTUNY. IN TERMS OF NAVIGATG , WAS DIFFICULT. IT ALSO REALLY EXPOS HYPOCRISY OF HIS CLAIM TO BE CENSORED BY THE MEDIA WHEN HE HAS A REGULAR SLOT APPEARG ON ONE OF THE HIGHT-RATED SHOWS ON BLE TELEVISN.”GREENWALD TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT THE ONLY PEOPLE HE EVER SPOKE TO AT THE INTERCEPT ABOUT APPEARG ON FOX WERE TWO OF HIS FORMER OUTLET’S HIGHT-PROFILE REPORTERS, JEREMY SHILL AND MEHDI HASAN, BOTH OF WHOM ARGUED AGAST . “I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT SOME PEOPLE AT THE INTERCEPT WERE UPSET THAT I WAS GOG ON FOX, BUT I WOULD NO SOONER ALLOW ANYONE TO DICTATE TO ME WHICH SHOWS I N GO ON THAN I WOULD ALLOW ANYONE TO CENSOR MY OPNS,” GREENWALD SAID.GREENWALD ADMTED THAT FOX NEWS AIRS PLENTY OF “HORRIFIC, TOXIC, DAMAGG, STCTIVE, AND BIGOTED” NTENT. BUT HE CLAIMED THERE WAS VALUE, NEVERTHELS, MAKG APPEARANC ON THE WORK. IN ADDN TO DISCSG ISSU THAT HE WAS TERTED —CLUDG CRICISM OF THE MASTREAM PRS, DEMOCRATS, AND AMERIN TELLIGENCE OFFICIALS—GREENWALD SAID THAT HE FELT HE HAS “BROUGHT TUCKER ALONG” ON SKEPTICISM OF THE CIA, AND HAS BEEN ABLE TO E HIS FOX NEWS PLATFORM TO ADVOTE FOR A PARDON OF EDWARD SNOWN AND TO CRICIZE BRAZIL’S FAR-RIGHT PRINT JAIR BOLSONARO.HE ADD: “I HAVE CRICIZED FOX, MAYBE NOT AS MUCH AS OTHER PEOPLE WOULD LIKE, BUT PART OF THE REASON IS I FEEL THAT RIGHT-WG MEDIA HAS DONE A MUCH BETTER JOB AT REPORTG ON THE PRIME SNDAL OF THE TMP ERA, WHICH IS RSIAGATE.” ASKED BY THE DAILY BEAST IF HE BELIEVED THAT RSIAGATE WAS A BIGGER SNDAL THAN THE TMP ADMISTRATN’S SERIAL MISHANDLG OF THE ADLY RONAVIS PANMIC, GREENWALD CLARIFIED THAT HE MEANT THAT VERAGE OF RSIAN TERFERENCE DOMATED THE NEWS CYCLE FOR MUCH LONGER THAN COVID-19.GREENWALD‘S TENSNS WH THE NEWSROOM WERE KEPT MOSTLY WH THE ANIZATN—UNTIL HIS ANGRY RIGNATN LETTER WENT LIVE. MANY ONE-TIME LLEAGU BEGAN PUBLICLY CRICIZG HIS CENSORSHIP CLAIM AS FACTUALLY ACCURATE, HYPOCRIL, OR OVERWROUGHT.“I’LL ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL TO GLENN FOR BRGG ME ON TO LNCH THE INTERCEPT. IT’S STILL A PLACE WHERE I N WRE EELY ON SUBJECTS I HOLD AR,” TWEETED THE INTERCEPT’S CRIMAL-JTICE REPORTER LILIANA SEGURA. “BUT THE ONE TIME I WROTE A PIECE FIERCELY DISAGREEG W/ THE WORK OF A LLEAGUE, HE ASKED ME TO PULL MY PUNCH. THE PIECE NEVER RAN.”“HERE ARE SOME EXAMPL OF ACTUAL CENSORSHIP,” TWEETED INTERCEPT VTIGATIVE REPORTER MARA HVISTENDAHL, HER PTN CLUDG A LK TO THE CHA DIGAL TIM’ DATABASE OF LEAKED OFFICIAL CHE ERNMENT DIRECTIV MANDG MEDIA CENSORSHIP OR FAVORABLE VERAGE.OTHERS LIKE INTERCEPT STAFFER LEE FANG BACKED GREENWALD’S CLAIM OF CENSORSHIP AND TOOK UMBRAGE AT INTERCEPT STAFFERS CRICIZG THEIR LLEAGUE ON HIS WAY OUT. “YOU N DISAGREE WH GLENN'S OPNS OR HIS CISN TO LEAVE TI, THAT’S FE, BUT GIV YOU A SENSE OF THE UNPROFSNAL WORK CULTURE AT TI TO SEE SO MANY GLOATG ABOUT HIS EX,” FANG TWEETED. “EVEN IF YOU HATE HIM, HAVE SOME RPECT FOR WHAT HE’S DONE HIS LIFE.”BUT OTHERS TOOK A MORE CYNIL VIEW OF GREENWALD’S EX. SOME INTERCEPT STAFFERS POTED OUT THAT THE CENSORSHIP CHARGE AND SUBSEQUENT RIGNATN MAY HAVE BEEN THE PERFECT PUBLICY STUNT FOR GREENWALD, WHO ACKNOWLEDGED HIS EX ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE’D ALREADY BEEN DISCSNS ABOUT STARTG ANOTHER MEDIA PROJECT. INED, SEEMED HIS NEW VENTURE WAS ALREADY POPULAR—SUBSTACK CLED TO SAY HOW MANY SUBSCRIBERS GREENWALD HAD GARNERED, BUT THE SE LISTED HIM AS ONE OF S TOP-TEN PAID NEWSLETTERS, WH “THOANDS OF SUBSCRIBERS” AT A RATE OF $5 PER MONTH.GREENWALD SEEMED AWARE OF THE CHARG, AND ULDN’T RIST ANOTHER OPPORTUNY TO TAKE A SWIPE AT HIS FORMER LLEAGU. IN AN TERVIEW WH THE HILL ON FRIDAY, HE REMARKED THAT IF HE WERE MOTIVATED BY MONEY, HE WOULD’VE STAYED AT THE INTERCEPT, WHICH PAID HIM A GENERO SALARY, HELPED PAY FOR HIS PRIVATE SECURY AND LEGAL STS, AND PAID HIS ASSISTANT.“THE INTERCEPT IS A PLACE PROBABLY MORE SO THAN ANYWHERE ELSE MEDIA WHERE YOU MAKE AN OBSCENE AMOUNT OF MONEY, NOT JT ME, FOR DOG VERY LTLE IF YOU WANT,” HE SAID.HE ADD: “PEOPLE THERE ARE MAKG HUNDREDS OF THOANDS OF DOLLARS A YEAR, THEY MAKE VERY LTLE. NO ONE READS WHAT THEY WRE, DON’T MATTER, THEY’RE GOG TO BE THERE FOR LIFE IF THEY WANT. SAME WH ME: I WAS MAKG A HUGE SALARY, AND ON TOP OF THAT HUGE SALARY I WAS MAKG, THE INTERCEPT PAYS MY ASSISTANT, PAYS S HUGE TEAM OF VERY EXPENSIVE LAWYERS BRAZIL I HAVE TO HAVE TO FIGHT OFF THE CRIMAL SE THAT IS STILL PENDG.” IN A SUBSEQUENT NVERSATN WH THE DAILY BEAST, GREENWALD SAID THAT HIS SUBSTACK SUBSCRIPTNS AMOUNTED TO BETWEEN $300,000 AND $400,000, FIGUR THAT WERE “SUBSTANTIALLY LS THAN JT MY SALARY” AT THE INTERCEPT, WHICH WAS AROUND $500,000. GREENWALD TIMATED THAT ADDN TO HIS SALARY, THE INTERCEPT VERED ABOUT $300,000 STS RELATED TO LEGAL FE AND PROTECTN.WHILE GREENWALD—WHO HAS BEEN BASED ON BRAZIL FOR MORE THAN A —WAS PERCEIVED TO BE REMOVED OM THE NEWSROOM, HE STILL SRED SOME MAJOR JOURNALISTIC VICTORI HIS FAL YEAR AT THE INTERCEPT. IN 2019, HE PUBLISHED A SERI BASED ON A TROVE OF SECRET DOCUMENTS ABOUT BRAZILIAN ERNMENT’S OPERATN CAR WASH, EXPOSG HOW THE UNTRY’S ANTI-RPTN PROSECUTORS WERE TATED BY POLIL BIAS AND LLABORATED SECRETLY WH A BRAZILIAN JUDGE WHO LATER GOT A PROMENT NEW POSN BOLSONARO’S RIGHT-WG ERNMENT.MANY STAFFERS NOTED HOW GREENWALD NSPICUOLY OMTED THE INTERCEPT’S BRAZIL OPERATN OM HIS BROADSI AGAST HIS FORMER PUBLITN. IN A TWEET ON THURSDAY, GREENWALD PRAISED THE OPERATN, SAYG “NONE OF THIS NFLICT HAS ANYTHG TO DO WH @THEINTERCEPTBR, WHOSE JOURNALISM I NTUE TO HAVE THE HIGHT REGARD FOR AND HOPE REMAS SUPPORTED.”STILL, MULTIPLE INTERCEPT STAFFERS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE HAS OCSNALLY BEEN ICTN BETWEEN THE PUBLITN’S FOUNR AND OTHER STAFF THE SOUTH AMERIN UNTRY. ON ONE OCSN, SEVERAL INTERCEPT SOURC RELLED HOW GREENWALD ALARMED LLEAGU WHEN HE RPOND ON TWTER TO A REPORT A BRAZILIAN NEWSPAPER THAT THE OUTLET WAS FISHED REPORTG THE OPERATN CAR WASH STORY AND PROMISED TO PUBLISH A STORY WH A SHORT ADLE, SENDG STAFF WORKG ON THE STORY TO OVERDRIVE TO MEET THE NEWLY SET EXPECTATNS.“OF URSE WHEN YOU WORK ON HIGH-PRSURED AND HIGH-STAKE STORI OVER MANY MONTHS, YOU’RE GOG TO HAVE DISAGREEMENTS WH LLEAGU ABOUT HOW TO DO THE REPORTG—THE SAME WAS TE DURG THE SNOWN STORY,” HE SAID. “BUT JT AS I LEFT THE GUARDIAN WH GREAT REGARD AND EXCELLENT RELATNS WH MY LLEAGU WH WHOM I REPORTED, I NTUE TO BE VERY GOOD IENDS WH THE SENR EDORIAL STAFF AT THE INTERCEPT BRASIL, LARGE PART BEE OF THE BONDS WE FORMED DOG THAT REPORTG.”ULTIMATELY, MANY STAFFERS HAD MIXED EMOTNS ABOUT GREENWALD’S TENURE, AND THE LEGACY HE LEFT BEHD AT THE INTERCEPT. THEY FELT HIS PUBLIC SPATS, HIS SOCIAL MEDIA ANTAGONISM, AND HIS FOX NEWS APPEARANC HAD RECENT YEARS UNFORTUNATELY OVERSHADOWED THE STRONG VTIGATIVE WORK THAT HE (AND THEY) PRODUCED.“GLENN HAS REPEATEDLY SHOWN HIS VALUE THE WORLD OF JOURNALISM AND POLIL BATE AND RHETORIC,” MAASS SAID. “THE GLENN GREENWALD WE’VE SEEN RECENTLY ISN'T NTRIBUTG SOMETHG POSIVE. I HONTLY HOPE HE WILL." MAXWELL TANI

In 1980 and 2000, David McReynolds ran for print as an openly gay man on the Socialist Party USA ticket. I me out as a homosexual 1969, so I thk that was one of the first open statements.

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INTERCEPT STAFFERS ROLL THEIR EY OVER GLENN GREENWALD’S CENSORSHIP CLAIMWAR OF WORDSGLENN GREENWALD HAD THE EEDOM TO PUBLISH ALMOST ANYTHG HE WANTED AT THE INTERCEPT. THEN HE CRIED CENSORSHIP.MAXWELL TANIMEDIA REPORTERUPDATED NOV. 01, 2020 5:49PM EST / PUBLISHED OCT. 31, 2020 2:50PM EDT REUTERSGLENN GREENWALD OFFICIALLY LEFT THE INTERCEPT ON THURSDAY, PLAG OF CENSORSHIP AND HEAVY-HAND EDG.IT WAS AN EYE-ROLLG MOMENT FOR MANY AT THE INTERCEPT. MULTIPLE STAFFERS AT THE OUTLET POTED OUT THAT, SPE HIS OBJECTNS TO EDG OM ABOVE, GREENWALD WAS ULTIMATELY ONE OF THE LEAST-EDED WRERS AT THE SE. WHILE THE EDG PROCS AROUND HIS WORK VARIED—HIS LENGTHIER, OFTEN-REPORTED PIEC TEND TO GET EDORIAL SCTY, WHILE HIS LUMNS DID NOT—GREENWALD WOULD OFTEN ANNOUNCE TERNAL PANY CHANNELS THAT HE WAS PLANNG TO PUBLISH LUMNS, G PY EDORS TO SCRAMBLE AT THE LAST MUTE TO, AS ONE EDOR PUT , “FIX BROKEN SENTENC AND DANGLERS AND MODIFIERS AND WORD SALAD THAT HE WOULD GENERATE.”TOP EDORS WERE SOMEWHAT UNFORTABLE WH THE LEEWAY AFFORD TO GREENWALD, BUT HIS STAT AS A -FOUNR OF THE PLACE, ALONG WH PRETERMED NTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS, ALLOWED HIM FAIRLY BROAD DISCRETN OVER HIS EDORIAL WORK. GREENWALD TOLD THE DAILY BEAST A TELEPHONE TERVIEW THAT HIS NTRACT ALLOWED HIM TO SELF-PUBLISH EXCEPT STANC THAT MAY PUT THE PUBLITN AT LEGAL RISK, AND STANC WHERE THE SUBJECT MATTER VOLVED ORIGAL REPORTG THAT WAS OF AN “UNUALLY PLEX NATURE.” WHILE REED BELIEVED THAT THE PIECE MET THE SEND THRHOLD, GREENWALD DID NOT.GREENWALD—WHO FOUND THE INTERCEPT 2013 WH FELLOW JOURNALISTS LRA PORAS AND JEREMY SHILL, WH FUNDG OM EBAY CHAIRMAN PIERRE OMIDYAR’S FIRST LOOK MEDIA—ABPTLY ANNOUNCED HIS EX PROTT OF WHAT HE CLAIMED WAS “REPRSN, CENSORSHIP AND IOLOGIL HOMOGENEY” AT THE DIGAL-MEDIA PUBLITN. HE SPECIFILLY CLAIMED THE INTERCEPT SILENCED HIM AND EP-SIXED HIS LUMN ON HUNTER BIN BEE THE EDORS “VEHEMENTLY” WANTED JOE BIN TO FEAT PRINT DONALD TMP THE ELECTN. THE MOVE SET UP A HIGHLY PUBLIC BACK-AND-FORTH BETWEEN GREENWALD, A WRER WHO HAS NEVER SHIED OM A FIGHT, AND THE LEARS OF THE PUBLITN HE HELPED TABLISH WH SIARLY PUGNAC VALU MD.EDOR--CHIEF BETSY REED WROTE A STATEMENT, WHICH WAS REVIEWED ADVANCE BY SEVERAL TOP EDORS, THAT GREENWALD’S CLAIMS WERE “TEEMG WH DISTORTNS AND ACCURACI—ALL OF THEM SIGNED TO MAKE HIM APPEAR AS A VICTIM, RATHER THAN A GROWN PERSON THROWG A TANTM.”SHE ADD: “IT IS IMPORTANT TO MAKE CLEAR THAT OUR GOAL EDG HIS WORK WAS TO ENSURE THAT WOULD BE ACCURATE AND FAIR,” SHE SAID. “WHILE HE ACC OF POLIL BIAS, WAS HE WHO WAS ATTEMPTG TO RECYCLE THE DUB CLAIMS OF A POLIL MPAIGN—THE TMP MPAIGN—AND LNR THEM AS JOURNALISM.”GREENWALD PUBLISHED THE DRAFT QUTN ALONG WH THE EMAIL EXCHANGE THAT PRECIPATED HIS PARTURE, WHICH EDOR PETER MAASS EXPLAED AT LENGTH WHAT HE SAW AS FLAWS GREENWALD’S PIECE, ALONG WH A SUGGTN TO NARROW HIS FOC ON MEDIA CRICISM OF THE HUNTER BIN VERAGE RATHER THAN AN EXAMATN OF THE RMATN BEG LNRED BY RIGHT-WG OPERATIV. ON WEDNDAY MORNG, GREENWALD ACCED MAASS OF CENSORSHIP AND SPIRALED OM THERE.REED TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT SHE AND GREENWALD IALLY DISCSED THE LUMN IA, AND TEAMED UP FOR THE PIECE WH WASHGTON D.C. BURE CHIEF RYAN GRIM, WHO SAID ON TWTER ON THURSDAY THAT HE AND GREENWALD CID TO WRE SEPARATE PIEC BEE OF THEIR DIVERGG TERTS THE HUNTER BIN SAGA. “IT WAS ONE THG TO APPEAR ON THE MURDOCH-OWNED WORK; WAS QUE ANOTHER TO PLAY HYPE MAN TO S MOST TOXIC TMP CHEERLEAR.” GREENWALD IALLY AGREED WH REED TO HAVE HIS HUNTER BIN LUMN EDED. HE AND REED HAD DISCSNS ABOUT THE PIECE ON THE PHONE AND VIA SLACK, AND THE PIECE WAS FILED TO MAASS, A VETERAN CHRONICLER OF GLOBAL NFLICT WHO WAS THE REGULAR EDOR FOR GREENWALD’S MORE -PTH REPORTED PIEC. MAASS WAS TAKEN ABACK WHEN AFTER SEEMG TO AT FIRST SIMPLY DISAGREE WH EDS, GREENWALD LATER CLARED THE PIECE WAS BEG CENSORED AND SUPPRSED.“GLENN’S RPONSE THAT EVENG WAS NOT SURPRISG, BUT WAS NSTCTIVE,” MAASS SAID OF GREENWALD’S IAL EMAIL AFTER RECEIVG EDS, WHICH DID NOT CLU ANY ACCATNS OF CENSORSHIP. “HE WAS ENGAGED THE PROCS. THE NOTE THAT HE SENT WEDNDAY MORNG—THAT WAS HIM BLOWG UP THE PROCS. AND THAT WAS REALLY SURPRISG GIVEN WHEN HE SAID TUDAY EVENG.”IN A SERI OF EMAIL AND TELEPHONE EXCHANG WH THE DAILY BEAST, GREENWALD AGA CLAIMED THAT THE PUBLITN HAD CID TO ED HIM BEE WAS VTED TIPPG THE SL BIN’S FAVOR. HE FURTHER ALLEGED THAT HIS TIME WORKG AT THE INTERCEPT, HE HAD NEVER RECEIVED ANY EDS LIKE THE LENGTHY NOTE MAASS SENT.“PEOPLE ARE EE TO BELIEVE THAT’S NOT A GOOD WAY TO WORK FOR THEM, BUT I WOULD NEVER WORK ANYWHERE THAT DID NOT GUARANTEE THAT EEDOM,” GREENWALD SAID OF HIS EDORIAL ARRANGEMENT. “THE INTERCEPT DID GUARANTEE , WHICH IS WHY THEIR SUDN EAGERNS TO APPLY SO MUCH EDORIAL SCTY TO THIS PARTICULAR STORY VLATN OF BOTH MY NTRACT AND THE WAY WE’VE ALWAYS WORKED —FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER—MA SO CLEAR THAT THE IMPULSE WAS ONE OF CENSORSHIP.”WHILE GREENWALD’S PARTURE OM THE PUBLITN WAS SEEMGLY SUDN, DISNTENT BETWEEN THE PULZER-WNG WRER AND MANY LLEAGU AT THE PUBLITN HE -FOUND HAD BEEN BREWG FOR YEARS, SOURC SAID.FOR HIS PART, GREENWALD HAD CREASGLY DIFFERG VIEWS WH WRERS AT THE PUBLITN ABOUT A NUMBER OF ISSU, MOST NOTABLY THE VERAGE OF RSIAN TERFERENCE THE 2016 ELECTN AND S FALLOUT. HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT HE WAS CREASGLY NCERNED THAT THE INTERCEPT WAS “PUBLISHG WHATEVER ANTI-TMP AGPROP POPS UP ON TWTER,” SAYG THAT HE EXPRSED TO REED NCERNS ABOUT A RECENT STORY THAT GREENWALD FELT MISCHARACTERIZED VOLUNTARY HYSTERECTOMI AT AN IMMIGRATN AND CTOMS ENFORCEMENT CENTER AS WELL AS A REPORT ABOUT TMP IGNORG TELLIGENCE SUGGTG THAT RSIA HAD PLACED BOUNTI ON U.S. SOLDIERS AFGHANISTAN.BUT HIS UNRELENTGLY BATIVE AND AT-TIM MEANG MENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA ALSO BBED SOME EMPLOYE THE WRONG WAY. HIS TWEETS OFTEN WOUND UP VLATG THE EY OF THE INTERCEPT’S EDORS THE SOCIAL-MEDIA GUIL SET OUT BY THE PUBLITN, WHICH ENURAG EMPLOYE TO “ENGAGE ROBT, RPECTFUL DISURSE WH EACH OTHER AND WH MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC,” BUT “ENURAG STAFF MEMBERS TO ADDRS DISAGREEMENTS DIRECTLY WH LLEAGU RATHER THAN AIRG THEM PUBLICLY, AND WEL A DIVERSY OF VIEWPOTS OUR NEWSROOM.” INTERCEPT EMPLOYE SAID GREENWALD’S DISREGARD FOR THE POLICI RENRED THE GUIL NEARLY UNENFORCEABLE, ENURAGG OTHER STAFF TO FOLLOW SU AND FLOUT THEM AS WELL—CREATG A HEADACHE FOR NEWSROOM LEARS.ACRDG TO REED, GREENWALD PRIVATELY CLAIMED HE MA ENORMO EFFORTS NOT TO CRICIZE OTHER INTERCEPT STAFFERS. AND MANY OF HIS PLENTIFUL TWTER BAT WH LLEAGU DID STAY LARGELY CIVIL, EVEN THOUGH GREENWALD DID NOT ALWAYS TAKE KDLY TO WHAT HE PERCEIVED AS PUBLIC CRICISM BY HIS -WORKERS. (AT ONE POT, GREENWALD BLOCKED SEVERAL STAFFERS WHO FOLLOWED AN ACUNT POKG FUN AT HIM. GREENWALD SAID HE DID NOT REMEMBER BLOCKG ANY STAFFERS WHILE THEY WERE AT THE INTERCEPT, BUT ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE MAY NOT REMEMBER DOG SO, OR HAD BLOCKED THEM BEFORE THEY WORKED WH HIM.) BUT REED ACKNOWLEDGED THAT ALTHOUGH GREENWALD’S PUBLIC DISPUT WH STAFF WERE SOMEWHAT EQUENT, WHEN DISCSG EDS OR NCERNS ABOUT SOCIAL-MEDIA PRACTIC WH SOME STAFFERS, “THEY WOULD SORT OF BE ABLE TO POT TO GLENN AND THAT WE HAD A TOTAL DOUBLE STANDARD AND THAT HE WAS ABLE TO DO WHATEVER HE WANTED.”“I THK WE DID MAKE PROGRS TOWARD HAVG A MORE HEALTHY TERNAL DIALOGUE AND BATE ABOUT ISSU WHERE PEOPLE DISAGREED,” SHE SAID. “BUT WAS FELY SOMETHG WHERE WAS DIFFICULT TO MANAGE.”LAST YEAR, FOR EXAMPLE, HE IRKED INTERCEPT LLEAGU AFTER HE PUBLICLY MOCKED AN IATIVE BY FIRST LOOK’S DIVERSY MTEE TO CLU PRONOUNS SLACK BS, AND SGLED OUT A FIRST LOOK STAFFER WHO IS NON-BARY AND HAD BEEN CRIL OF GREENWALD ON TWTER.“I WOULD LERALLY, LIKE, LOSE AN EYE BEFORE I PLIED WH THIS,” HE SAID OF THE IATIVE ON THE GIRLS CHAT PODST. “I PROBABLY WOULDN’T POKE OUT BOTH MY EY, SO I DIDN’T WANT TO E HYPERBOLE, BUT I WOULD RATHER BE WHOUT ONE OF MY EY THAN SUBM TO THIS.”FOR HIS PART, GREENWALD SAID NO ONE AT THE INTERCEPT EVER RAISED NCERNS TO HIM THAT HE WAS VLATG THE PANY’S SOCIAL-MEDIA GUIL, WHICH HE SAID HE WOULDN’T HAVE FOLLOWED ANYWAY BEE HE DISAGREED WH THEM.“AS FOR THE GIRLS CHAT: THERE WAS AN EMPLOYEE OF FIRST LOOK MEDIA, NOT AT THE INTERCEPT, WHO CRICIZED ME ON TWTER, AND WHEN I RPOND, I ED THE ‘HE’ PRONOUN BEE THAT’S HOW THIS WRER HAD ALWAYS INTIFIED,” HE SAID. “UNBEKNOWNST TO ME, THEY HAD ANNOUNCED A PRONOUN CHANGE ONLY A UPLE MONTHS EARLIER, WHICH I DIDN’T KNOW, SO THE ‘MIS-GENRG’ WAS PURELY UNTENTNAL. I WAS PARTICULARLY ANGRY ABOUT BEE I’VE LONG BEEN THE ONLY OPENLY GAY JOURNALIST AT THE INTERCEPT—OVER 7 YEARS, NOT A SGLE OTHER ONE HAS BEEN HIRED—AND SO THE IA THAT I WAS OPPRSG SOMEONE WHO HAD JT ANNOUNCED NON-BARY STAT 3 MONTHS EARLIER WAS OFFENSIVE. IT’S THE INTERCEPT WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE ISSU WH OPENLY GAY JOURNALISTS.”FURTHERMORE, GREENWALD’S EQUENT FOX NEWS APPEARANC—PECIALLY ON WHE NATNALIST-IENDLY TUCKER CARLSON’S PRIMETIME SHOW—WERE A SOURCE OF NCERN FOR NEWSROOM LEARS. STAFF FELT THAT GREENWALD’S DISTASTE FOR LIBERALS, CENTRISTS, AND MASTREAM MEDIA ALLOWED HIM TO BEE A EFUL STOOGE FOR THE WORK, WHERE HIS APPEARANC EQUENTLY FOCED ON BASHG DEMOCRATS, FORMER OBAMA TELLIGENCE OFFICIALS, AND FOX’S MEDIA RIVALS. IT WAS ONE THG TO APPEAR ON THE MURDOCH-OWNED WORK; WAS QUE ANOTHER TO PLAY HYPE MAN TO S MOST TOXIC TMP CHEERLEAR.REED SAID SHE DID NOT DISURAGE HIS EQUENT APPEARANC ON CARLSON’S SHOW, BUT ACKNOWLEDGED THAT GREENWALD’S FOX NEWS REGULARY WAS “FELY A SOURCE OF REAL TENSN AND NCERN.”“I TAKE SERLY THE ISSU OF EEDOM OF EXPRSN,” REED SAID. “I ALSO KNOW THAT HAD I EVER TOLD HIM NOT TO APPEAR ON TUCKER CARLSON, THAT WOULD BE THE ONE SUREFIRE WAY HE ULD BE BOOKED FOR THE NEXT OPPORTUNY. IN TERMS OF NAVIGATG , WAS DIFFICULT. IT ALSO REALLY EXPOS HYPOCRISY OF HIS CLAIM TO BE CENSORED BY THE MEDIA WHEN HE HAS A REGULAR SLOT APPEARG ON ONE OF THE HIGHT-RATED SHOWS ON BLE TELEVISN.”GREENWALD TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT THE ONLY PEOPLE HE EVER SPOKE TO AT THE INTERCEPT ABOUT APPEARG ON FOX WERE TWO OF HIS FORMER OUTLET’S HIGHT-PROFILE REPORTERS, JEREMY SHILL AND MEHDI HASAN, BOTH OF WHOM ARGUED AGAST . “I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT SOME PEOPLE AT THE INTERCEPT WERE UPSET THAT I WAS GOG ON FOX, BUT I WOULD NO SOONER ALLOW ANYONE TO DICTATE TO ME WHICH SHOWS I N GO ON THAN I WOULD ALLOW ANYONE TO CENSOR MY OPNS,” GREENWALD SAID.GREENWALD ADMTED THAT FOX NEWS AIRS PLENTY OF “HORRIFIC, TOXIC, DAMAGG, STCTIVE, AND BIGOTED” NTENT. BUT HE CLAIMED THERE WAS VALUE, NEVERTHELS, MAKG APPEARANC ON THE WORK. IN ADDN TO DISCSG ISSU THAT HE WAS TERTED —CLUDG CRICISM OF THE MASTREAM PRS, DEMOCRATS, AND AMERIN TELLIGENCE OFFICIALS—GREENWALD SAID THAT HE FELT HE HAS “BROUGHT TUCKER ALONG” ON SKEPTICISM OF THE CIA, AND HAS BEEN ABLE TO E HIS FOX NEWS PLATFORM TO ADVOTE FOR A PARDON OF EDWARD SNOWN AND TO CRICIZE BRAZIL’S FAR-RIGHT PRINT JAIR BOLSONARO.HE ADD: “I HAVE CRICIZED FOX, MAYBE NOT AS MUCH AS OTHER PEOPLE WOULD LIKE, BUT PART OF THE REASON IS I FEEL THAT RIGHT-WG MEDIA HAS DONE A MUCH BETTER JOB AT REPORTG ON THE PRIME SNDAL OF THE TMP ERA, WHICH IS RSIAGATE.” ASKED BY THE DAILY BEAST IF HE BELIEVED THAT RSIAGATE WAS A BIGGER SNDAL THAN THE TMP ADMISTRATN’S SERIAL MISHANDLG OF THE ADLY RONAVIS PANMIC, GREENWALD CLARIFIED THAT HE MEANT THAT VERAGE OF RSIAN TERFERENCE DOMATED THE NEWS CYCLE FOR MUCH LONGER THAN COVID-19.GREENWALD‘S TENSNS WH THE NEWSROOM WERE KEPT MOSTLY WH THE ANIZATN—UNTIL HIS ANGRY RIGNATN LETTER WENT LIVE. MANY ONE-TIME LLEAGU BEGAN PUBLICLY CRICIZG HIS CENSORSHIP CLAIM AS FACTUALLY ACCURATE, HYPOCRIL, OR OVERWROUGHT.“I’LL ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL TO GLENN FOR BRGG ME ON TO LNCH THE INTERCEPT. IT’S STILL A PLACE WHERE I N WRE EELY ON SUBJECTS I HOLD AR,” TWEETED THE INTERCEPT’S CRIMAL-JTICE REPORTER LILIANA SEGURA. “BUT THE ONE TIME I WROTE A PIECE FIERCELY DISAGREEG W/ THE WORK OF A LLEAGUE, HE ASKED ME TO PULL MY PUNCH. THE PIECE NEVER RAN.”“HERE ARE SOME EXAMPL OF ACTUAL CENSORSHIP,” TWEETED INTERCEPT VTIGATIVE REPORTER MARA HVISTENDAHL, HER PTN CLUDG A LK TO THE CHA DIGAL TIM’ DATABASE OF LEAKED OFFICIAL CHE ERNMENT DIRECTIV MANDG MEDIA CENSORSHIP OR FAVORABLE VERAGE.OTHERS LIKE INTERCEPT STAFFER LEE FANG BACKED GREENWALD’S CLAIM OF CENSORSHIP AND TOOK UMBRAGE AT INTERCEPT STAFFERS CRICIZG THEIR LLEAGUE ON HIS WAY OUT. “YOU N DISAGREE WH GLENN'S OPNS OR HIS CISN TO LEAVE TI, THAT’S FE, BUT GIV YOU A SENSE OF THE UNPROFSNAL WORK CULTURE AT TI TO SEE SO MANY GLOATG ABOUT HIS EX,” FANG TWEETED. “EVEN IF YOU HATE HIM, HAVE SOME RPECT FOR WHAT HE’S DONE HIS LIFE.”BUT OTHERS TOOK A MORE CYNIL VIEW OF GREENWALD’S EX. SOME INTERCEPT STAFFERS POTED OUT THAT THE CENSORSHIP CHARGE AND SUBSEQUENT RIGNATN MAY HAVE BEEN THE PERFECT PUBLICY STUNT FOR GREENWALD, WHO ACKNOWLEDGED HIS EX ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE’D ALREADY BEEN DISCSNS ABOUT STARTG ANOTHER MEDIA PROJECT. INED, SEEMED HIS NEW VENTURE WAS ALREADY POPULAR—SUBSTACK CLED TO SAY HOW MANY SUBSCRIBERS GREENWALD HAD GARNERED, BUT THE SE LISTED HIM AS ONE OF S TOP-TEN PAID NEWSLETTERS, WH “THOANDS OF SUBSCRIBERS” AT A RATE OF $5 PER MONTH.GREENWALD SEEMED AWARE OF THE CHARG, AND ULDN’T RIST ANOTHER OPPORTUNY TO TAKE A SWIPE AT HIS FORMER LLEAGU. IN AN TERVIEW WH THE HILL ON FRIDAY, HE REMARKED THAT IF HE WERE MOTIVATED BY MONEY, HE WOULD’VE STAYED AT THE INTERCEPT, WHICH PAID HIM A GENERO SALARY, HELPED PAY FOR HIS PRIVATE SECURY AND LEGAL STS, AND PAID HIS ASSISTANT.“THE INTERCEPT IS A PLACE PROBABLY MORE SO THAN ANYWHERE ELSE MEDIA WHERE YOU MAKE AN OBSCENE AMOUNT OF MONEY, NOT JT ME, FOR DOG VERY LTLE IF YOU WANT,” HE SAID.HE ADD: “PEOPLE THERE ARE MAKG HUNDREDS OF THOANDS OF DOLLARS A YEAR, THEY MAKE VERY LTLE. NO ONE READS WHAT THEY WRE, DON’T MATTER, THEY’RE GOG TO BE THERE FOR LIFE IF THEY WANT. SAME WH ME: I WAS MAKG A HUGE SALARY, AND ON TOP OF THAT HUGE SALARY I WAS MAKG, THE INTERCEPT PAYS MY ASSISTANT, PAYS S HUGE TEAM OF VERY EXPENSIVE LAWYERS BRAZIL I HAVE TO HAVE TO FIGHT OFF THE CRIMAL SE THAT IS STILL PENDG.” IN A SUBSEQUENT NVERSATN WH THE DAILY BEAST, GREENWALD SAID THAT HIS SUBSTACK SUBSCRIPTNS AMOUNTED TO BETWEEN $300,000 AND $400,000, FIGUR THAT WERE “SUBSTANTIALLY LS THAN JT MY SALARY” AT THE INTERCEPT, WHICH WAS AROUND $500,000. GREENWALD TIMATED THAT ADDN TO HIS SALARY, THE INTERCEPT VERED ABOUT $300,000 STS RELATED TO LEGAL FE AND PROTECTN.WHILE GREENWALD—WHO HAS BEEN BASED ON BRAZIL FOR MORE THAN A —WAS PERCEIVED TO BE REMOVED OM THE NEWSROOM, HE STILL SRED SOME MAJOR JOURNALISTIC VICTORI HIS FAL YEAR AT THE INTERCEPT. IN 2019, HE PUBLISHED A SERI BASED ON A TROVE OF SECRET DOCUMENTS ABOUT BRAZILIAN ERNMENT’S OPERATN CAR WASH, EXPOSG HOW THE UNTRY’S ANTI-RPTN PROSECUTORS WERE TATED BY POLIL BIAS AND LLABORATED SECRETLY WH A BRAZILIAN JUDGE WHO LATER GOT A PROMENT NEW POSN BOLSONARO’S RIGHT-WG ERNMENT.MANY STAFFERS NOTED HOW GREENWALD NSPICUOLY OMTED THE INTERCEPT’S BRAZIL OPERATN OM HIS BROADSI AGAST HIS FORMER PUBLITN. IN A TWEET ON THURSDAY, GREENWALD PRAISED THE OPERATN, SAYG “NONE OF THIS NFLICT HAS ANYTHG TO DO WH @THEINTERCEPTBR, WHOSE JOURNALISM I NTUE TO HAVE THE HIGHT REGARD FOR AND HOPE REMAS SUPPORTED.”STILL, MULTIPLE INTERCEPT STAFFERS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE HAS OCSNALLY BEEN ICTN BETWEEN THE PUBLITN’S FOUNR AND OTHER STAFF THE SOUTH AMERIN UNTRY. ON ONE OCSN, SEVERAL INTERCEPT SOURC RELLED HOW GREENWALD ALARMED LLEAGU WHEN HE RPOND ON TWTER TO A REPORT A BRAZILIAN NEWSPAPER THAT THE OUTLET WAS FISHED REPORTG THE OPERATN CAR WASH STORY AND PROMISED TO PUBLISH A STORY WH A SHORT ADLE, SENDG STAFF WORKG ON THE STORY TO OVERDRIVE TO MEET THE NEWLY SET EXPECTATNS.“OF URSE WHEN YOU WORK ON HIGH-PRSURED AND HIGH-STAKE STORI OVER MANY MONTHS, YOU’RE GOG TO HAVE DISAGREEMENTS WH LLEAGU ABOUT HOW TO DO THE REPORTG—THE SAME WAS TE DURG THE SNOWN STORY,” HE SAID. “BUT JT AS I LEFT THE GUARDIAN WH GREAT REGARD AND EXCELLENT RELATNS WH MY LLEAGU WH WHOM I REPORTED, I NTUE TO BE VERY GOOD IENDS WH THE SENR EDORIAL STAFF AT THE INTERCEPT BRASIL, LARGE PART BEE OF THE BONDS WE FORMED DOG THAT REPORTG.”ULTIMATELY, MANY STAFFERS HAD MIXED EMOTNS ABOUT GREENWALD’S TENURE, AND THE LEGACY HE LEFT BEHD AT THE INTERCEPT. THEY FELT HIS PUBLIC SPATS, HIS SOCIAL MEDIA ANTAGONISM, AND HIS FOX NEWS APPEARANC HAD RECENT YEARS UNFORTUNATELY OVERSHADOWED THE STRONG VTIGATIVE WORK THAT HE (AND THEY) PRODUCED.“GLENN HAS REPEATEDLY SHOWN HIS VALUE THE WORLD OF JOURNALISM AND POLIL BATE AND RHETORIC,” MAASS SAID. “THE GLENN GREENWALD WE’VE SEEN RECENTLY ISN'T NTRIBUTG SOMETHG POSIVE. I HONTLY HOPE HE WILL." MAXWELL TANI

DAVID McREYNOLDS: 1949 was a very signifint year for me, partly bee that was the year that I had met Alv Ailey the men’s room at UCLA and cid that I was homosexual. We met a bathroom, which was a gay meetg place at UCLA. Alv helped me accept beg homosexual, bee he was not guilty, he was not nervo, he was not ashamed.

And I had viewed the whole bs of homosexualy as very eply shameful and very, very wrong. AMY GOODMAN: That’s David McReynolds, talkg about his relatnship wh Alv Ailey and wh Bayard Rt, the openly gay black pacifist who helped, wh A. But they gay-baed him.

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