What a sham. The NYT has openly said many times that it allows the US Government to determine what is "fit to print". How did it come to this?
I strongly believe there was some level of collusion between Greenwald & the USG. How else did he get to have a successful media career in the West, while fellow publisher/journalist Assange rots in prison?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/opinion/government-censor...
About NYT withholding documents: well, that's just another nail in the coffin of the paper's credibility, along with yet another betrayal of the trust they got from WL...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38183380
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_Libby#Involvement_in_t...
Because leaks can have consequences and it's not clear to the NYT exactly what those might be?
It's a tough situation because the government may not be a trusted partner, but I understand asking / trying to avoid collateral damage.
With this, the NYT has decided that they want to be a government propaganda organ instead of a journalistic organ.
It isn't "with this". In a way (in recent history) it always has been. Case in point, almost any political event. See what the NYT publishes on the Israel-Gaza conflict, in comparison with any middleeast/asian outlet. I'm not saying that this is always on purpose, it's likely a lot of it is human bias - but it doesn't change the fact that journalistic organizations have bias, and you need to read different papers for a complete picture.
It's not an all or nothing deal.
As to Greenwald's media career? He seems to have gone really fringe the last few years, but maybe I'm saying this because I believe the mainstream Russia and Trump 2016 story, and he seems convinced about US mainstream media incompetence/deference, but he just sounds angry all the time...