congratulations greenwald, the guardian and by extension edward snowdon on pulitzer win

[SwampG8r]

keep pulling down the curtain!

[SwampG8r]

1. kick

[SwampG8r]

2. and a rec... didnt know you could rec your own threads

[WillyT]

3. K & R !!!

[LuvNewcastle]

4. K&R

I'm hoping that Snowden will win a Nobel Prize as well.

[mc51tc]

5. Pulitzer Vindicates: Snowden Journalists Win Top Honor

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/14-6

"I can't imagine a more appropriate choice for a Pulitzer Prize," New York University media studies professor Mark Miller told AFP. Miller said that the winning team of reporters did what "American journalists are supposed to do, which is serve the public interest by shedding a bright light on egregious abuse of power by the government."

"The real journalistic heroes in this country tend to be the mavericks, the eccentrics, those who dare to report stories that are often dismissed derisively as 'conspiracy theory,'" Miller continued.

On Friday, Poitras and Greenwald returned to the U.S. for the first time since breaking the NSA stories to accept the prestigious George Polk Award for national security reporting.

During his acceptance speech for the George Polk award, Greenwald discussed the intimidation that both whistleblowers and journalists face.

"The only way to deal with threats," he said, "is to just do the reporting as aggressively, if not more so, than you would absent those threats."

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/14/guardian-washington-post-pulitzer-nsa-revelations

"The Guardian and the Washington Post have been awarded the highest accolade in US journalism, winning the Pulitzer prize for public service for their groundbreaking articles on the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities based on the leaks of Edward Snowden."

Guardian staff raise toast to Edward Snowden after Pulitzer announced. Editor notes that prize for "public service".

[99Forever]

6. Oh Hell YES with a K&R

[Blue_Tires]

7. No love for the WaPo?

They're the ones who actually had to *write* shit while adhering to some kind of journalistic standards...

[SwampG8r]

9. you can start a thread about them if you want

no rule against it

[bvar22]

8. DUREC!

*Rampant Government Secrecy and Democracy can not co-exist.

*Persecution of Whistle Blowers and Democracy can not co-exist.

*Government surveillance of the citizenry and Democracy can not co-exist.

*Secret Laws and Democracy can not co-exist.

*Secret Courts and Democracy can not-co-exist.

*Our Democracy depends on an informed electorate.

You either believe in Democracy and a Government accountable to The People,
or you don't.
It IS that simple.

[SwampG8r]

10. ihave to notice

that many posters went silent when this happened but now they have a putin quote to misinform with so they are happy again

[bvar22]

11. They HAVE to have SOMEONE....

...for the Two Minutes of HATE.
Snowden...Greenwald...Putin...Liberals....

They MUST have a target for their hate, someone else to blame,
or they lose their Raison D'etre.
They actually hate each other, but just haven't realized it yet.