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Talk about an adversarial interview. It reads like a higher brow version of the game of 20-questions you play with the cops when you get pulled over for a fish
by dsfyu404ed 7y ago
Talk about an adversarial interview. It reads like a higher brow version of the game of 20-questions you play with the cops when you get pulled over for a fishing stop. They're constantly trying to trip him up and get him to say something harmful to his case.
- 317070 7y agoExactly, and those fishing expedition questions are not interesting anyway. They are not what I want to find out about the story.
- yellow_lead 7y agoCall me tinfoil, but I got the feeling the interviewer was fed questions by the government.
- hannasanarion 7y agoNot necessary. TV media networks have been sucking up to the government basically since the beginning of TV news. See also, TV news' furor to hype up the Iraq War, even as many newspaper journalists and politicians were crying foul. Or the news' complicity in covering up the bombings of Laos and Cambodia, widely reported in foreign news.
- excalibur 7y agoAdditionally, the transcription is terrible, possibly intentionally so. > If you look back at the history of the United States, it doesn't take very long for the average person to think about a moment in which it was absolutely illegal to do something. But at the same time, it was absolutely the same thing to do. Was this intentionally misquoted to take some of the wind out of Snowden's sails? I'm not sure, but given the hostile nature of the interview itself I definitely would not rule it out.
- mLuby 7y agoIn contrast, his (counter-)interviewing skills are impressive. Thoughtful and unflappable.