by Pops » Tue 02 Sep 2014, 21:11:02
Strummer wrote:The most important takeaway for me was the pretty hard criticism of The Guardian, which kind of confirmed my feelings about the newspaper.
That's interesting, I kinda got the opposite. Aside from turning over the files they had to the NYTimes when confronted by British intelligence, I thought the Guardian got the story out relatively fast.
Greenwald had lots bad to say about the Times (NY & LA) and the Washington Post specifically and highly paid corporate "journalists" who regularly clatch with the same pols they are ostensibly keeping on the straight and narrow.
Especially considering Briton has no equal to our 1st Amendment, which specifically protects freedom of the press - pretty ironic, that.
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)