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Just curious, if this seems to be of uttermost importance pertaining to national security, then why do the media broadcast it for the rest of the world to see?
by neya 7y ago
Just curious, if this seems to be of uttermost importance pertaining to national security, then why do the media broadcast it for the rest of the world to see?
- Synaesthesia 7y agoThey’re doing their job? It was a leak. Also ICE screwed up.
- mattnewton 7y agoThere is a balance to be struck, sure, but the duty of the press is to inform the public, not to act as censors or to determine what is or is not a matter of national security.
- jacobtwotwo 7y agoThe press is partially there to disagree with or at least critique such subjective judgments.
- whytaka 7y agoThe fifth estate isn't an apparatus of the government. Sometimes, it must act counter to the interests of the government.
- journalctl 7y agoFirst of all, none of this is actually important for national security. Second, the media does this to help hold government accountable.
- john-radio 7y agoTwo points, in reverse order: > why do the media broadcast it for the rest of the world to see? ICE broadcasted it, didn't they? It's in nobody's best interest to pretend that the information was successfully redacted. > this seems to be of uttermost importance pertaining to national security Are we talking about the same ICE? ICE is a joke; everyone was better off before it was created in 2002 and it should be abolished and prevented from wasting any more of my money on "URBAN WARFARE!1!" facilities. Give me a break.
- drivingmenuts 7y agoBecause governments should be accountable to the governed, and the media is part of the governed. Media is not a separate arm of the people, it is a more involved and interpreted part of the people. This is why it’s so alarming when a politician calls media “the enemy” because they are, in effect, saying their own people are the enemy.