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I'm mildly surprised that a media outlet is actually calling this out at another organization.

In my opinion, every media outlet has been complicit in helping the U.S. powers that be try to discredit Wikileaks and distract from the contents of the leaks. Not to mention hiding corruption.

Wikileaks has done a great job at showing the world how much those in power don't care about anything but their own power (and their "conspiracy network"). But all I'm seeing is the same apathetic and head-in-the-sand response from the general population to reality.

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Except Salon: they have had very good coverage. I donated money to them a few days ago, largely because I wanted to make sure that they could be one of the only sources in the USA of real news (besides the Comedy Channel).

They are the only U.S. media outlet that doesn't just blatantly make shit up. Unlike the NY Times where it's rare to make it through a full page without finding a blatant error, Salon is almost never wrong.

These type of comments are what makes me really wary of what comes after the current mainstream media implodes. Instead of becoming more skeptic of what they read, people just replace blind faith in one source with blind faith in another.

If the way I judge what I read is by how many errors I find in it, isn't that the exact opposite of blind faith?

But no one can possibly catch all the errors in all articles (esp since many of the worst ones are not factual errors, but context issues)

If this were on the New York Times editorial page, I'd agree with you, but I can't believe you're surprised that Glenn Greenwald is angry at another media outlet. He is angry about the same thing every week.

There's plenty to be angry about.

This is the first time I've heard of Greenwald. I don't read Salon regularly. However the occasional article I have read has been decent.

Keep reading Greenwald, he's been superb on this issue and agrees with you.

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