Glenn Greenwald on Jeffrey Rosen’s anonymity-driven smear attack
Posted by Keith Kamisugi | Filed under Media Coverage, Opinion
Glenn Greenwald on salon.com today writing about how Jeffrey Rosen’s blogging of unattributed attacks on Judge Sotomayor reflects the lack of accountability prevalent in the Beltway establishment. (Thanks to Evelyn Nieves for posting the link on Facebook.)
“NPR has a thorough examination today of the controversy surrounding Jeffrey Rosen’s New Republic anonymity-driven smear attack on Sonia Sotomayor’s intellect and character. The audio news report, for which I was interviewed at length, will be posted online at NPR later today.
“In that grand accountability-free tradition, Rosen blames everyone but himself for what he did, but then melodramatically announces that he will no longer “blog” — as though it’s the medium, rather than his own standards and choices, that are to blame for what he did…”
Tags: glenn greenwald, jeffrey rosen, new republic, salon
