Glenn Greenwald to Be Awarded the 2014 Lanny Friedlander Prize From Reason Magazine
The Lanny Friedlander Prize honors an individual or group who has created a publication, medium, or distribution platform that vastly expands human freedom by increasing our ability to express ourselves, engage in debate, and generate new ways of understanding the power of “Free Minds and Free Markets." Journalist Glenn Greenwald will be the recipient of the 2014 Prize. It was first awarded in 2013, to Jane Metcalfe and Louis Rossetto, the co-founders of Wired magazine.
The award is named for Lanny Friedlander (1947-2011), who founded Reason magazine in 1968 as a 20-year-old college student at Boston University. An admirer of the Austrian School of economics, Ayn Rand, and Swiss typography, he was agitated by the violent campus atmosphere of the day and the equally brutal response of the authorities. He intended Reason to act as a sort of libertarian conversation pit, where members of that fledgling movement could share news and commentary while building a community. The first issue of the magazine included this mission statement:
“When REASON speaks of poverty, racism, the draft, the war, student power, politics, and other vital issues, it shall be reasons, not slogans, it gives for conclusions... Proof, not belligerent assertion. Logic, not legends. Coherence, not contradictions. This is our promise: This is the reason for REASON.”
Friedlander, a talented graphic artist who went on to work with Massimo Vignelli, sold the magazine to contributors Robert W. Poole, Manny Klausner, and Tibor Machan in 1971.
https://www.reason.com/reasonmediaawards/lannyfriedlander.php
This just gets better and better...
In case anyone is wondering, it's Koch money that keeps Reason propped up...
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I knew there was something evil about Helvetica! 
But srsly, St. Glenn 
is getting an award from the Kochs' house organ?! 
... quick, get the smelling salts, I may faint...
Coincidentally, that song came up recently on my iPod shuffle.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]
I'm so surprised. I just can't comprehend why such a staunch liberal progressive like Greenwald would get such an award from them.
