People We Should Know: Glenn Greenwald

Success and death threats, in equal measure

In conversations with friends who live in media silos, a question that pops up frequently is: “But if I stopped watching MSNBC (or Fox or CNN) how would I know what’s happening?”

The answer, of course, is that it’s easy. The corporate media’s obvious corruption and dysfunction have spawned an alt-media ecosystem featuring honest, competent, and sometimes…