- Adversarial
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally think honestly disclosing rather than hiding one's subjective values makes for more honest and trustworthy journalism. But no journalism - from the most stylistically 'objective' to the most brazenly opinionated - has any real value unless it is grounded in facts, evidence, and verifiable data.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural assumptions about the world. And with some noble exceptions, 'The Times,' by design or otherwise, has long served the interests of the same set of elite and powerful factions.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whistleblowers are typically rendered incommunicado, either because they're in hiding, or advised by their lawyers to stay silent, or imprisoned. As a result, the public hears only about them, but never from them, which makes their demonization virtually inevitable.
- Glorify
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously. They do it to glorify the President, or manipulate public opinion, or even to help produce a pre-election propaganda film about the Osama bin Laden raid.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Obama administration does not hate unauthorized leaks of classified information. They are more responsible for such leaks than anyone. What they hate are leaks that embarrass them or expose their wrongdoing. Those are the only kinds of leaks that are prosecuted.
- Order
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal, and that is to destroy privacy and anonymity, not just in the United States, but around the world.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American national security state is totally bipartisan. My biggest problem is with the Democrats, like Feinstein and Pelosi, who are defending it because there is a Democrat in the White House, and they are party loyalists and hacks before they are public servants.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was talking to strangers over the Internet in the 1990s, there would be a much more intense connection because they're disembodied, so it's just your brain and your soul interacting with this other person, and it just frees you up in this incredibly empowering way.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point of asylum is to find a country that's both willing and able to protect you from political persecution. In no way is asylum an endorsement of a country's politics, laws, or values.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020