A very relevant quote which I dedicate to the Guardian and especially Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras for having the guts to bring us the story about the NSA and whistleblower Edward Snowden.
h/t to +Steve Faktor for finding this snippet of great wisdom
Is it a fail that Snowden didn´t trust American newspapers to publish his story?
everyone wants the truth till t hits close to home, then the dance of deniable starts
dance of deniability succintly worded +frank j Zbink
+Max Huijgen thank you I try to be creative on how I say things.
Here, here, +Max Huijgen.
To those heros out there who are willing to risk their livelihood and imprisonment for truth and transparency. And to the institutions that see their work as more than just scaffolding for advertisements.
It wasn't a fail on his part, but I don't think that's what you're asking.
For quite a while now the evidence has been clear that American media is biased (one direction or the other depending on the specific media).
So in that sense it's a fail. But not so much failure by the media itself. Rather, I believe it's failure on the part of American citizens who either believe their favorite biased network (Fox, MSNBC, etc) or would rather not waste any time/synapses thinking or doing something about it. We simple seem to keep feeding the machine over here.
Well didn't the NYT famously sit on a story about domestic spying for over a year?
It was probably the concern that US media would feel obligated not to publish, or worse…
I feel the Guardian has done a wonderful job on this story and am glad at the depth of work on this vs what we might have seen from a US paper.
+Michael Kelly according to an interview with Laura Poitras (the person he contacted first) that NYT behavior was the reason he went with the Guardian.