Another Snowden News Story. Another Lesson in Proper Whistleblowing.

[Jen Savage]

It's funny that you seem to think wikileaks dumps their leaks
indiscriminately, when they have been criticized for holding too much back
from the public.
It's also funny that you think someone out there has some sort of
definition of what "properly vetted" means. Last time I checked, the
opinions on that topic span the spectrum.
Also, what the fuck are "proper mainstream journalists" because last I
checked that definition only applied to obsolete dinosaurs working in "old
media".

-Jen


On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 1:22 AM, coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:

> [ED.: given some states pursuing severe charges for merely reporting
> this information, it seems not entirely disingenuous to position ones
> self in positive light]
>
> ---
>
>
> http://ohtarzie.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/another-snowden-news-story-another-lesson-in-proper-whistleblowing/
> """
>
> Among the many things I have grown to detest about the Snowden Leaks
> spectacle is that for every heavily redacted page that’s been revealed
> — a meagre ~300 pages in five months according to Cryptome.org — we
> rubes seem to get at least twenty, sometimes very stern, lessons in
> proper whistleblowing from the the Leaker, the Leak Keepers, the Leak
> Keeper inner circle, and soldiers in the sycophant army that doltishly
> parrot and hype everything these people say. The lesson is as follows:
>
> 1. Don’t ever just dump your leaks on the internet.
> 2. Make sure your leaks are properly vetted and mediated by proper
> mainstream journalists.
>
> This lesson is often, perhaps even usually, stated as, or with, some
> variation of the following:
>
> Don’t be like Chelsea Manning and Wikileaks, that is, indiscriminate,
> reckless and dangerous to both national security and human life...
>
> """
>
>
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