Evening Must-Read: Glenn Greenwald: On the Meaning of Journalistic Independence

Glenn Greenwald: On the Meaning of Journalistic Independence: “This morning, I see that some people are quite abuzz about a new Pando article ‘revealing’ that the foundation of Pierre Omidyar, the publisher of First Look Media which publishes The Intercept, gave several hundred thousand dollars to a Ukraininan ‘pro-democracy’ organization….

This, apparently, is some sort of scandal…. That several whole hours elapsed since the article was published on late Friday afternoon without my commenting is, for some, indicative of disturbing stonewalling…. The Pando article adopts the tone of bold investigative journalism that intrepidly dug deep into secret materials…. But as I just discovered with literally 5 minutes of Googling, the Omidyar Network’s support for the Ukrainian group in question, Centre UA, has long been publicly known: because the Omidyar Network announced the investment at the time in a press release and then explained it on its website.