This website, this source for "investigative journalism" includes a video that claims that there's a link between autism and vaccines.
http://benswann.com/truth-in-media-vaccine-court-and-autism/
US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm having trouble if the ARD (or parts of it) starts dicking around with copyright restrictions. They receive a huge amount of funding from mandatory payments of all German households (you can try to avoid that if you're a poor student or poor, period, but usually you're (supposed to be) paying - by law). It's really close to a tax to pay for their content, their infrastructure. Which makes sense in a way for me, I…
But the content is freely viewable in Germany, isn't it? Imho that would easily cover their mandate to the people (who are financing them)
For a number of days. I wonder when they will go un-publish this one.
Most things disappear from their websites after 7 days, which is a "compromise" they worked out with the private media corporations.
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#93I highly recommend watching this interview, in which Snowden clearly explains his motives for doing what he did and describes the scope of the data collection carried out by the NSA and its allied foreign intelligence agencies. While I've followed this story quite extensively, this is first time I've actually watched an interview with Snowden, and I was very impressed with his intelligence, thoughtfulness, depth of k…
I was really disappointed at the interview. I feel like the interviewer really just spent their time throwing softballs for Snowden, instead of asking him at least some real questions (why leak things that were obviously within the domain of par-for-the-course intelligence collection? Comments on the faux outrage by Brazil, Germany, and company? Why not hit harder at intelligence services of other countries, despite the fact that he's shown that he has the knowledge?).
At the very least it would give him a platform to defend himself from the criticisms he receives (instead of preaching to the choir) and if he were to flub on a question TV stations could at least replay that all the time (no more complaining about a "blackout" due to lack of anything interesting).
I'm sorry but an interview that is basically rehashing everything said before, without even attempting to take a critical view, is not interesting
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess they follow the usual DMCA dance, the data is uploaded by users after all. The only thing I wonder is if they actually delete such files or hide them with a "first published on 2014-01-26, author John Doe" marker to unlock once copyright expired. It might be easier to get hold of certain artefacts now than in 135 years (or whenever recently obtained copyrights actually will expire).
It's better for the NSA to collect all your data now than when you've set us up the bomb. I love the irony in this flawed line of thinking here.
I see a huge difference between historians and spooks.
For one, few historians run torture camps and assassination units.
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#95NSA leader lied under oath to Congress.
Why is this not as big as Watergate?
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#96All from a few days ago: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/snowden-nsa-conducts-industrial-... http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/german-tv-snow... http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/video-from-snowd... Just search "ARD snowden" on Google News. Not front page, but not hidden either. Giving the interview right around the State of the Union probably didn't help it get any attention in the US.
These links: a.) lip-service reporting that Snowden was-to-have an interview or b.) reduced the lengthy talk to an inconsequential soundbite. The NYT Blog - 3 days late, is it that hard for such a "renowned" journalistic enterprise? Wow! Props to the Associated Press for writing about something globally noteworthy [sarc.] in an article that few cared to carry or - God-forbid - elaborate upon. (ABC merely picked up th…
"Yes, but what about..." This is moving the goalposts.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Before you go witch hunting go read this. http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1wddfp/us_media_bl...
This should really be the top comment. For anyone that thinks there is actually a problem here, what could the motivation or mechanism behind this "blackout" possibly be? Significant parts of the US media have been reporting pretty well on Snowden for a long time now.
The media discussion so far has centered around personal issues. Is Snowden a traitor, did he give secrets away to China/Russia, should he be assassinated, how is his girlfriend feeling, what did his father say, does he have a new job, etc. This interview puts the focus back where it should be: have intelligence agencies broken the law, have they taken justice into their own hands, have they been deceiving the executive branch, what balance should be struck between security and privacy, and so on. It also puts a human face on this man, who has never been given a chance to explain his motives.
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#98Whether or not there is some kind a conspiracy, which doesn't seem credible to me, the US media could have interviewed Snowden if they wanted to anywhere in the world he felt safe. But they don't appear to care to since it might make that network lose access to politicians and government officials and be branded by rivals as traitors. That's far more likely.
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#99Try searching CNN for "Snowden Interview" and there is NO mention of it. Same with MSNBC's search - nothing about this interview in the results. Also, scroll down to user "Nostromo's" counter (claiming the media did cover the story) w/links and then my reply. This kind of blatant dereliction of duty in US journalism (IMHO) presages the governments' plans for controlling the (M)essage on websites. One can only assume…
Before you go witch hunting go read this. http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1wddfp/us_media_bl...
I was surprised to hear there was a blackout. The reddit commentary shows that it was picked up, albeit with lackluster coverage.
One important thing is still missing, though: Where is a link to the video that has a chance of persisting for some time? After all, this is a document of a certain historical significance, so it should be accessible.
Maybe I'm to meta-cynical, but the reason for that link not existing might just as well have something to do with a copyright-fuckup instead of an intelligence agency conspiracy.
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#100I highly recommend watching this interview, in which Snowden clearly explains his motives for doing what he did and describes the scope of the data collection carried out by the NSA and its allied foreign intelligence agencies. While I've followed this story quite extensively, this is first time I've actually watched an interview with Snowden, and I was very impressed with his intelligence, thoughtfulness, depth of k…
> I highly recommend watching this interview
How?
Edit: I found a transcript. http://www.ndr.de/ratgeber/netzwelt/snowden277_page-1.html