The “Snowden is Ready to Come Home!” Story: a Case Study in Typical Media Deceit

Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:25:00 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/04/snowden-wants-come-home-stories-case-study-media-deceit/>

"Various media outlets then took these redundant, anodyne comments and
distorted them into some brand new BREAKING!! event — as though Snowden
suddenly decided for the first time he wants to Come Home — and then
proceeded to extract from this fake narrative a series of utterly
misleading, false and propagandistic claims about Snowden, Russia and
the NSA."

I don't think you can really even call this sort of thing "journalism".

Via Jim Feig.

Cheers,
        *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net                   Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/             Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/                Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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