Snowden Tells NYT That Media Sold Out After 9/11selfnews Post In an interview with Snowden, put together by filmmakerLaura Poitras who worked with Glenn Greenwald on the original disclosure, the New York Times got an earful indictment of their complicity to government policies. Snowden told the New York Times that the media abdicated its role as a watchdog of government after 9/11: 