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Re: The Sad Decline of '60 Minutes' Continues With This Week's NSA Whitewash
From: Steve Pirk <pirkster () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:35:28 -0800
As strange as it sounds, I find RT a pretty good source of "unadulterated news". They also have an excellent cast of independent journalists in the RT America channel. -- steve On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com> wrote:
Welcome to the world of centralized media, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_media. You have to read non-US publications to balance the skewed views following the party lines. Reuters is a good choice. I still recall Reuters was one of the few mainstream publications that covered the Israel/Palestine conflict/war/{euphemism} with objectivity. Reuters would publish daily death counts like a score card. At the height, Israel was killing Palestinians at a rate of 3 to 1. On the other hand, US central media usually showed the suicide bus bombers that killed Israelis. They did not cover Israel razing entire portions of cities and killing hundreds at a time with airstrikes. I recall seeing the aerial photos of cities like Jenin and thinking, holy shit - that looks like post world war two Germany. Jeff On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () mykolab com> wrote:Wow, where to begin... I love the subject line above, which I used from this 'The Nation'article:http://www.thenation.com/blog/177598/sad-decline-60-minutes-continues-weeks-nsa-whitewashI was unsurprisingly stunned tonight that CBS had sunk even lower thanFoxNews in their reporting on the NSA tonight -- nothing less than pro-NSA propaganda. Here are a few initial thoughts that came out tonight -- and they will assuredly continue to roll in: 'How we know the 60 Minutes NSA interview was crap'http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/12/how-we-know-60-minutes-nsa-interview.html'60 Minutes': NSA Good, Snowden Badhttp://www.thewire.com/national/2013/12/60-minutes-nsa-good-snowden-bad/356174/'Shame On Feinstein' Coalition Warns Of Silicon Valley Economic ImpactFromNSA Spyinghttp://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2013/12/shame_on_feinstein_co.phpOne can only scratch their heads & wonder what CBS is doing here. Aretheyreally this incompetent, or are they maneuvering somehow to support the Obama administration's attempt to only make 'cosmetic changes' to the NSA and FISA Court operations, and whitewash the NSA overreach? I've already seen several main stream U.S. news organizations 'interpret' the leaked recommendations from the 'oversight board' as 'sweeping' when they are nothing more than cosmetic & business as usual. See also:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/nsa-review-to-leave-spying-programs-largely-unchanged-reports-sayhttp://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/16/131216fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=allhttp://www.pogo.org/blog/2013/12/20131213-has-political-spending-defanged-intel-watchdogs-in-congress.htmlNo pun intended, but the NSA and the Obama Administration are pulling a "Snow Job" on the American People. - ferg_______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- The Sad Decline of '60 Minutes' Continues With This Week's NSA Whitewash Paul Ferguson (Dec 15)
- Re: The Sad Decline of '60 Minutes' Continues With This Week's NSA Whitewash Jeffrey Walton (Dec 16)
- Re: The Sad Decline of '60 Minutes' Continues With This Week's NSA Whitewash Steve Pirk (Dec 16)
- Re: The Sad Decline of '60 Minutes' Continues With This Week's NSA Whitewash Jeffrey Walton (Dec 16)