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Well, good journalism would necessitate including the President Obama facts as background for the Trump piece. It is the same context - US President, Syria, Rus
by snomad 9y ago
Well, good journalism would necessitate including the President Obama facts as background for the Trump piece. It is the same context - US President, Syria, Russians, classified info - less than 1 year earlier.
Also, it does change the perception of the story. As someone who has followed the Syrian civil war somewhat closely, I get the sense that the US has repeatedly tried to "cooperate" with Russia on Syria (while putting Ukraine on the back burner). In other words, the US - not a democratic or republican president - has a policy of constructive engagement. That changes the story - it is about cool academic cucumber handling one way, smarmy braggadocio salesman handling it a different way.
- foldr 9y agoThere is no parallel between the two cases, so it would not be good journalism to artificially draw one. The problem with what Trump did isn't that he shared classified information, it's that he did so (i) without the permission of the ally from whom the information was obtained [1] and (ii) without properly thinking through the consequences (or most likely even realising that he was doing it). http://www.timesofisrael.com/horrified-israeli-intel-officials-were-shouting-at-us-counterparts-over-trump-leak/ http://www.timesofisrael.com/horrified-israeli-intel-officia...