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On the flip side, the Washington Post did the whole Top Secret America story and nobody cared. And that was almost 2 years ago - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To
by Sven7 13y ago
On the flip side, the Washington Post did the whole Top Secret America story and nobody cared. And that was almost 2 years ago - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Secret_America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Secret_America
So while I don't like this form of journalism either, it looks like it has a bigger impact and is here to stay.
Thank Reality TV and celeb culture, architected by the advertising industry and marketing departments for the last 30 years.
Today to have mass influence you need spectacle and celebrity. From Presidents to Astronauts to journalists...
As long as the impact is positive, who knows, maybe it can even be a good thing.
- eightyone 13y agoI read a lot of news and I didn't even know about Top Secret America before reading this comment. Thank you.
- kintamanimatt 13y agoSometimes it takes a number of attempts to get people to notice. Having said that, reading this series' conclusions leads me to believe that it wasn't as scandalous as these leaks. Everyone knows governments spend a lot of money and employ a lot of people. The NSA's hoovering of 1.7 billion phone calls daily appears to have been the most profound and worrisome finding, but if it was sandwiched within other not-so-shocking information, that other dull information might have had a negative halo effect.