Glenn Greenwald The Guardian

Questions and answers to guide you to that conclusion

This article has been written by Glenn Greenwald. He has specifically chosen to convince his audience that Edward Snowden is not the bad guy but the government is. He asks the reader questions to doubt their belief and try to move their stand point on Edward Snowden. The article talks about how Edward Snowden is being charged for espionage even though that he exposed and told the America's innocent people that they were being espionaged on.

The article already lures the you into the idea and questions you of who is more damaging to the US by asking "Who is actually bringing 'injury to America": those who are secretly building a massive surveillance system or those who inform citizens that is being done?"

Glenn Greenwald uses more sophisticated language in this article compared to other articles written by him. This adds a professional and thought through tone to the writer making him trust Glenn Greenwald. For example in the first paragraph the writer uses "Conceivable" to explain in what imaginable way are Snowden's actions "espionage".

Glenn Greenwald shows his personal opinion and authority as he finds it absurd that Snowden is being charged for this. For example in the text " The Irony is obvious: the same people who are building a ubiquitous surveillance system to spy on everyone in the world, including their own citizens are now accusing the person who exposed it of "espionage"." We also see in this quote more detailed language such as Ubiquitous which is another difficult language use. Throughout this quote and text he mocks the government and saying they havent learned about the Russians and Chinese and Uk are all intercepting each others network and messages.

The overall structure of Glenn Greenwald is very convincing and formal language use as it includes many quotes and questions which are being pointed at the reader and then debunk those questions in the way to support or defend Edward Snowden. This helps Glenn to give a extremely convincing argument bringing the reader to the side of Edward Snowden and against the government.

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Glenn Greenwald
The Guardian June 22,2013