Update 5/16/13: Media in uproar after government spies on journalists
Journalists and media organizations are in an uproar over the government’s acknowledgement that it has been issuing secret subpoena’s to gather phone records from journalists. The unprecedented investigation into journalists by the Department of Justice, and unfounded accusations that journalists were putting Americans in harms way, have finally brought the war on whistleblowers into the limelight. Will this motivate the media to take more interest in the governments persecution of Bradley Manning, and of the Obama administrations crackdown on whistleblowers?
Sam Seder discusses the media reaction, and comments that maybe now that journalists themselves are under attack that maybe they will wake up to the whistleblower issue:
Press Finally Sensitive To Whistleblower Issue…Because It’s Now About The Press
Chris Hedges calls the Department of Justice actions another “terrifying assault on press freedom”. He is interviewed on Democracy Now:
Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a “Terrifying” Step in State Assault on Press Freedom
What Wikileak give us is way more than those so called “press”. However, those press remain almost silent about the efforts from US trying to knocking down Wikileak and the ill treatments to Bradley Manning. They were also blind in the crimes committed by the US government and its military. Now they are uproaring for the government’s secret surveillance? Is that some kind of joke?
Transparency, My Arse…yeah right.