There is a belief that Edward Snowden is part of a right
wing conspiracy to take down President Obama. Something about the whole thing
just doesn’t smell right, including Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer/journalist who
broke the story who is now living in exile in Brazil. Are both of these
Americans pawns in a bigger story? Did they sell their soul? Follow the money.
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It was recently “leaked” that Snowden and Greenwald will
received 250 million dollars from Pierre Omidyar to create an internet “general”
news site. Is Snowden a
journalist? Pierre Omidyar, billionaire, was born in Paris of Iranian parents and
moved to the US when he was a child. He is uneducated like Snowden and like
Snowden is a whiz at computer programming. His billions come from profits from eBay,
the company he founded. So, who backed him?
It was revealed in a recent NYTimes article that Omidyar
intends to spend 8 billion to back general news sites with the intention of
making the government more transparent and making the world a better place. I
am not a journalist so I say bullshit! And Omidyar tried to keep this info
SECRET?
Here’s the NYTimes article. Try not to laugh – or cry!
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/21/business/media/an-interview-with-pierre-omidyar.html?smid=tw-share
Short excerpt:
Pierre Omidyar: We want to do a better
job bringing important investigative stories or deep human stories that tend to
be overlooked to a broader audience and we can use technology to figure out how
to do that. It isn’t as simple as just throwing something in their faces about
an important issue. That’s just like a public service ad and will likely be
ignored.
Technologists understand our users
and break down how user engagement increases from somebody that maybe just tries
your product once and then goes away, to a different kind of person that
progressively gets more and more engaged and then becomes just totally locked
into your product. That’s something people in Silicon Valley spend a ton of
time analyzing, working on and thinking about.
So, it’s about consumerism. As always.
