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TRIGGERnometry

S5: Glenn Greenwald: Why Journalism is Broken

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Glenn Greenwald is an American journalist, author and lawyer. He is perhaps best known for his work with Edward Snowden whereby he published a series of reports exposing details of American and British global surveillance programmes. This work contributed to The Guardian and The Washington Post winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2014. Get TICKETS to TRIGGERnometry Live with Andrew Doyle here: https://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873619472 Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/​​​  OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: https://www.subscribestar.com/trigger... https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod​​​ Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/​​​ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/​​​ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media:  https://twitter.com/triggerpod​​​ https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod​​​ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod​​​ About TRIGGERnometry:  Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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isn't it to hold the rich and powerful to account? That's like a nice you know

0:39.0

fairy tale. Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm

0:49.5

Frances Foster. I'm Constantin Kissen. And this is a show for you if you want

0:54.1

honest conversations with fascinating people. A brilliant guest we have for you

0:59.4

today he's one of America's finest and most principal journalist Glenn Green

1:03.2

will welcome to Trigonometry. I'm thrilled to be here we've been working for a

1:07.2

while for me to get here and I'm glad it finally worked out and I appreciate

1:10.3

the invitation. It's it's great to have you on the show we're so keen to speak

1:14.3

with you Glenn though we try not to focus on the day-to-day events and

1:18.1

occurrences I know you cover those as well but the question we really wanted to

1:21.6

start with is kind of to ask you the broader question which is what the hell is

1:26.6

going on with journalism? I think that you have to begin with the premise

1:33.7

that the Trump era radically transformed almost every aspect of American

1:39.1

political and cultural life which if you think about it is not that difficult

1:44.0

to understand why if large sectors of the society convince themselves that the

1:50.0

person who has risen to power in a country is really this unprecedented

1:55.5

threat never before seen menace to all good things in the world essentially

2:01.9

and often literally the kind of return of like a Hitler-like figure it's

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