The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism

ZDNet ^ | June 8, 2013 | Ed Bott

[don-o]

Summary: A bombshell story published in the Washington Post this week alleged that the NSA had enlisted nine tech giants, including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Apple, in a massive program of online spying. Now the story is unraveling, and the Post has quietly changed key details. What went wrong?

[don-o]

Long and somewhat tedious piece on WaPo revising their original breaking news story.

[dirtboy]

Quibbling over details to try and discredit the larger, far more important story. Seems to me the author of this piece is a bigger example of what is wrong with journalism nowadays.

[yldstrk]

Read Witness by Whitakker Chambers. The Writer’s Guild is loaded with Communists.

[EQAndyBuzz]

If the media did their job, Obama never would have been elected.

[Travis McGee]

[American Constitutionalist]

Seems their house of cards is starting to crumble down along with the MSM.
If the people are starting to not trust the government it won't be long now when they will sit back and think that those ( the main stream media, the DNC, Democrats ) who helped install this regime should also not be trusted.


Sheeple ? wake up ! the same ones in Washington are not to be trusted are the same ones who should not be trusted in the main stream media.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The only real journalism over the past decade has come from Matt Drudge, Andrew Breitbart and the Brits.

[NonValueAdded]

No, that’s the real story in the Obama presidency, the collapse of journalism.

[jazzlite]

Glenn Beck has also tried to warn people.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism

Exactly. The existence of the Utah NSA facility has been widely known for years.

[jersey117]

So true.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Yes, I forgot Beck. His near take-down of Van Jones was good work. He is one very dangerous man.

[FreeAtlanta]

They did “their” job.

[BigpapaBo]

Well they can’t/won’t print the truth, because like our elected officials; the media are in bed with or the gov has the goods on all of them.

[Gene Eric]

>> the larger, far more important story.

What exactly is the larger, far more important story?

[dirtboy]

That the NSA is gathering all of this data on Americans - and especially when Clapper lied that they were not.

[Gene Eric]

Well if that is indeed the case, the far, far more important story is the complicit “representation” elected to office that sanctions and funds the NSA.

It’s astonishing that little if any attention is given to the enablers.

[dirtboy]

Well that basically goes without saying. They ignore all the other parts of the Constitution, why not the 4th?

However, this resonates with a lot of people. These scandals are IMO going to lead to a resurgence in the Tea Party.

[Gene Eric]

>> resurgence in the Tea Party.

A possible silver lining.