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What's interesting is how this all should have been entirely predictable to Snowden. He's an American, he knows what Jerry Springer is. He said right from the b
by mpyne 13y ago
What's interesting is how this all should have been entirely predictable to Snowden. He's an American, he knows what Jerry Springer is. He said right from the beginning that he didn't want this to be about him, so why has he let the circus go on so long?
Did he think that the press focuses on human-interest stories because they don't sell or drive pageviews? He's giving the media so much to drive stories on, and all about Snowden and Assange and Wikileaks and asylum... but not about the big bad NSA. But so be it, I'm sure his current padded cell must be more comfortable.
- el_fuser 13y agoYou seem to believe that Snowden can control the media.
- mpyne 13y agoIn fact I claim the opposite; Snowden cannot control the media, and should have predicted its inevitable reaction to the input he has been feeding it.
- mtowle 13y agoAh, and were he not to have done so, are we so sure the NSA bits and pieces would be dominating the headlines, or might those have drifted into the background regardless? Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darueber muss man schweigen.
- mpyne 13y agoLast time I checked Greenwald is not an idiot. The ongoing leaks have come without any interaction by Snowden at all, if I'm understanding him correctly. If anything he keeps stealing the thunder of WaPo, Guardian, Der Spiegel, etc.
- ankitml 13y agoMedia is controlling him, not like mathematical control of direct or inverse relations but more of a sublte control.
- Ma8ee 13y agoI think that the has screwed up in regard to his own safety, possibly because of bad advice from the Wikileaks people. I'm certain that he didn't plan to be stranded in a transit hall in Moscow. In regards to the news he has held a quite low profile himself recently.
- yen223 13y agoOn the flip side, if Snowden didn't put a human face to this controversy, it's likely that the NSA leak would never have received the kind of publicity it has now.
- mpyne 13y agoTrue, but he could have put a human face on it right at the beginning and then dropped himself off at a courthouse like a certain other famous leaker-to-media of classified data.
- marshray 13y agoAnd quite likely never been seen or heard from again like Manning. Only a fool would fight secret courts and secret interpretations of laws by "dropping himself off at a courthouse".
- mpyne 13y ago> And quite likely never been seen or heard from again like Manning. That's not what happened to Manning at all though. While in Quantico he was nearly continuously in the news... it wasn't until he was transferred to Ft. Leavenworth that the news toned down about him. Nowadays Manning's trial has resulted in updates almost every other day in the news, if you've bothered to check. > Only a fool would fight secret courts and secret interpretations of laws by "dropping himself off at a courthouse". Not every day I see people on HN call Daniel Ellsberg a fool.
- marshray 13y agoYes, Manning was in the news. No, you did not hear any statements from him, unless you read the court martial transcript that was made by the reporter who smuggled in the tape recorder against the court rules of security. Ellsberg wasn't fighting secret courts and secret interpretations of law.
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