The Big Story About The NSA Surveillance / Snowden

[Spitfire of ATJ]

The media is distracting us from something MAJOR here.

It's the fact that THEY DIDN'T BREAK THE STORY.

Their prime EXCUSE is it would have been ILLEGAL to break the story.

Thus, the media has a vested interest is seeing to it that Snowden gets the book thrown at him so they can hold him up as to why the media doesn't do it's job.

[FirstLight]

1. nice angle

but see...they can't break the story because they are under surveillance too...or they are bought and sold by the same people that own our govt...either way, they aren't real journalists anymore, thats the real point

[Octafish]

2. When the media do what the government tells them, we've got a problem.

The First Amendment says it's a "free press," not an "official press."

Big difference, if you're interested in democracy.

[struggle4progress]

3. Oh? What was this Washington Post story then?

U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program
By Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras, Published: June 6
Updated: Friday, June 7, 10:51 AM

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. ......ignored, obviously.

There was no "hero" in it.

[mhatrw]

5. getting out in front of a story?

[struggle4progress]

6. ... A series of indirect contacts preceded the first direct exchange May 16 between Snowden

and Gellman ... Snowden asked for a guarantee that The Washington Post would publish — within 72 hours — the full text of a PowerPoint presentation describing PRISM, a top-secret surveillance program that gathered intelligence from Microsoft, Facebook, Google and other Silicon Valley companies. He also asked that The Post publish online a cryptographic key that he could use to prove to a foreign embassy that he was the document’s source. Gellman told him the Post would not make any guarantee about what the Post published or when. The Post broke the story two weeks later, on Thursday. The Post sought the views of government officials about the potential harm to national security prior to publication and decided to reproduce only four of the 41 slides, Gellman wrote in his story about their communications. Snowden replied succinctly, “I regret that we weren’t able to keep this project unilateral” ...
Snowden's cautious approach to Post reporter
Jun. 10, 2013
Associated Press

[struggle4progress]

7. ... I was originally contacted in January, anonymously ...

Why do you think he contacted you? Were you the first person he contacted?
I can’t speak for him. Glenn and I just touched base about, what was your story, because we connected later in the spring. He, I think, got an email in February. But I didn’t know he’d gotten an email ...
So how did it then become two separate stories in the Washington Post and the Guardian?
The source also has a relationship with Glenn. Which I can’t speak to...
Monday, Jun 10, 2013 05:20 PM EDT
How we broke the NSA story
... Laura Poitras tells Salon about getting contacted by Edward Snowden ...
By Irin Carmon

[JI7]

8. i think they are just lazy , most of them don't want to read up on these issues

it's like during election time how their reporting is mostly about the polls.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. Their reporting is all the same....

One would think it's from the same source.