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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGreenwald's No Place To Hide tumbling down the NYT best sellers list
Last week it was at number 5; this week it tumbled to number 7.
Timothy Geithner's book is now ahead of Greenwald.
That's right, Geithner! And he doesn't have an army of far left ideologues pushing his tome.
http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2014-06-08/combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction/list.html
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)" who offers solutions to problems in health and education based on capitalism, not government"
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)It's probably only on the list via clandestine bulk buys anyway.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,240 posts)Thats right. A whistleblower breaks the law to obtain 50,000 documents, he flees the country to escape prosecution and jail time, he hands over these 50,000 pages to a handful of individuals in return for their promise to present these documents to the public, six months pass, and the public gets 1% of these documents. But please, wait. This is not all. Far more interesting and troubling things happen meanwhile.
The main wanna-be reporter begins his relentless pursuit of high dollars in return for for what? In return for exclusive interviews where he would discuss some of this material. In return for a very lucrative book deal where he would expose a few extra pages of these 50,000-page documents. In return for a partnership with and extremely high salary from a Mega Corporation (think 1%) where he would hmmmm, well, it is not very clear: maybe in return for sitting on and never releasing some of these documents, or, releasing a few select pages?
Thats right. The culprit is able to use his role in the whistleblower case, and his de facto ownership of the whistleblowers 50,000-page evidence, to gain huge sums of money, fame, a mega corporate position, book and movie deals yet, making sure that the public would never see more than a few percent of the incriminating evidence.
Of course, secondhand checkbook profiteers tend to be very savvy, able to blow smoke, muddy water, and obscure their real deeds and true personhoods. This particular one is famous for spending years as an ambulance-chasing style attorney, where all he had to do was to write dozens of pages to make cases that were never cases, or make real cases appear as if they never were.
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/12/08/checkbook-journalism-leaking-to-the-highest-bidders/#sthash.esuPxh6S.dpuf
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)to explain away this failure?
Whisp
(24,096 posts)Glenn Greenwald's PTL Club scam.
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Tarheel_Dem
(31,240 posts)them", "quit making the story about them", and then you get a snarky post about his book sales ratings. I mean, if you & I had a pet billionaire, how hard could it be to get on the best seller list?
I think this thread hasn't received the kind of attention the o.p. intended, because there are a few GG/Snowden (former) supporters left who have principles, and find it kinda icky that GG is making a mint off of information that belongs to ALL of us. You don't get more 1% than a b-i-l-l-i-o-n-a-i-r-e.
Raw Story reports: The Internet hacktivist group Anonymous is calling for protests against author and civil liberties advocate Glenn Greenwald because of his relationship with eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
In a release posted to Pastebin, the secretive activist group is calling for members to attend and disrupt scheduled book signings where Greenwald will be promoting his new book, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State.
The point of contention between Greenwald and the group stems from his relationship with First Look founder and eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar.
eBay purchased PayPal in 2002.
Representing the PayPal 14, a group charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after they attempted to disrupt PayPals operations in retaliation for PayPals refusal to process donations to WikiLeaks Anonymous stated that the 14 are struggling to raise more than $80,000 in court-ordered restitution that must be paid to eBay/PayPal.
http://warincontext.org/2014/05/14/report-claims-anonymous-will-protest-glenn-greenwald-for-ties-to-paypal-billionaire/
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)when they can read it for free at cryptome.org...
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)He's probably on the payroll already.