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Here's the pessimistic view: the authorities intentionally did this (detained Miranda) to provoke GG into releasing classified documents in a way that the popul
by plg 13y ago
Here's the pessimistic view: the authorities intentionally did this (detained Miranda) to provoke GG into releasing classified documents in a way that the popular press would interpret as "in retaliation"... thus setting up the perception in the public's eyes that GG is acting in a non-journalistic way, in a personal way, perhaps as a personal crusade "against the state"... thus making it easier for the public to swallow the idea that GG is an enemy of the state, not a journalist
- notahacker 13y agoThat's a particularly pessimistic view of the authorities' grasp of media relations: the British mainstream public are far more likely to be interested in "how's the journalist the government tried to silence going to respond" than "what's that occasional contributor to a newspaper far too left-wing and longwinded for me to actually read got to say for himself" If the UK government wanted the right wing media to smear GG they were best off letting them get on with it http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350153/Journalist-helped-Edward-Snowden-expose-NSA-scandal-previously-sued-business-partner-running-Hairy-Jocks-porn-business.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350153/Journalist-h... rather than encouraging them to change their tune http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396745/Edward-Snowden-journalist-Glenn-Greenwalds-partner-David-Miranda-detained-Heathrow-airport.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396745/Edward-Snowd...
- plg 13y agoI agree with what you say... but I meant the media more generally not just the right-wing media I can see the headlines on the nightly news: "journalist GG retaliates against UK government's detention of his gay lover by publicly releasing classified documents" and then all of a sudden it's about GG vs the government instead of what it should be, the govt vs the public interest