Analyzing Glenn Greenwald's Article 'The Sunday Times'

Glenn Greenwald wrote an article, titled, “The Sunday Times' Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst — and Filled with Falsehoods”, and he talked about how Western journalists, specifically U.S. and U.K. journalists, fabricated evidence to create articles so that they could publish stories to prove that Snowden was a villain. Although reputable sites publish them, they should be taken with taken with a grain of salt since create stories out of nothing In his article, he convinces the reader well because he provides multiple examples of articles where the news agency provides false proof to create a fake story. He also includes evidence where his significant other, David Miranda, was wrongly accused of having files since he was stopped in the airport and since then, Sunday Times removed the article which shows that Western journalists use false information to get the story they want. Though, with all his evidence on how the articles, he didn’t provide any evidence as to any Western Journalist doing the right thing and it makes seem like all of the new agencies cannot be trusted.
In the article by Glenn Greenwald, he quotes numerous articles to prove that Western journalists create falsified stories with quotes from unnamed sources that cannot be …show more content…
Not all news agencies are like the Sunday Times and they provide the readers with evidence that they could analyze. He also primarily used Sunday Times as an example to make the reader believe that all U.S. and U.K. journalists are all creating fictional stories so they can publish news articles. Greenwald should have used more examples from other news agencies to further strengthen his argument and if there really is not an agency that is truthful, he should have stated it in his