Yes indeed, and I wonder why they published that load of scaremongering tripe yesterday. Is it something to do with the UK government's attempt to get what has become known as "the snoopers charter" through Parliament to give police and secret services more powers to collect and store electronic data from anybody they choose? The potential dangers are rather obvious given what Snowden taught us, and so the bill gets scarce support.
What better way to counter that than a big scare story about the dangers of not spying on people? And who better to get it to the maximum audience than the government's friend Rupert "Destroy the unions, give me a tax cut and I'll get you elected" Murdoch? But that doesn't make sense unless the ploy is to keep the spying "in house" rather than subcontracting to amateurs like the stupid Americans did with Snowden. Maybe I'm just getting paranoid but the whole thing has the feel of a secret briefing to friendly journalists and they don't do that on such a big subject without a reason. Especially as it's a load of bollocks. I smell a rat.. ---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote : Sunday Times Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/14/sunday-times-report-snowden-files-journalism-worst-also-filled-falsehoods/ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/14/sunday-times-report-snowden-files-journalism-worst-also-filled-falsehoods/ Sunday Times Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/14/sunday-times-report-snowden-files-journalism-worst-also-filled-falsehoods/ The British Murdoch-owned paper publishes a report trying to exploit this mindset: "If some anonymous government officials said it, and journalists repeat it while ... View on firstlook.org https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/14/sunday-times-report-snowden-files-journalism-worst-also-filled-falsehoods/ Preview by Yahoo
