Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald
Nov 14, 2021
When authoritarians want to violate press freedoms but don't want to admit they're doing it, they use the same tactic: "oh, the people we're targeting aren't *journalists*."
That's what they did to Assange, now to PV, tried it with us in both the Snowden and Brazil reporting:

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein
NEW: Brewing battle over political video-sting artist James O’Keefe and Biden daughter’s diary is testing breadth of administration’s professed committment to free press https://politi.co/3FbrBX0

Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald
The First Amendment's guarantee of a "free press" doesn't apply to a small, cloistered, credentialed, privileged group licensed as "journalists." It protects an activity that *every citizen* has the right to engage in without reprisals or punishments.
7:37 AM · Nov 14, 2021

Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald
The reason this is an authoritarian mentality -- aside from the fact that it's designed to justify state attacks on people engaged in core press freedoms -- is what they really mean is this: you're not a "real journalist" unless you're credentialed by a large media corporation.
7:40 AM · Nov 14, 2021

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Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald
A few months ago, I spoke with @krystalball and @esaagar
-- in the context of Democrats cheering the prosecution of Julian Assange -- about why this tactic of trying to decree who is and is not a "real journalist" is both authoritarian and ahistorical:
From Gyorgy - Australian Citizen for Assange
7:43 AM · Nov 14, 2021

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1459909940408168451