NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time

Re:NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time by Epopeehief54 on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:22AM (#20302430)

What did you expect? Real Journalism? Its the Wall Street Journal, not real news. They need click bait titles in order to get more exposure and sell more ads. What ever it takes to get a few more clicks...Their motivation like most news companies today is making money, not informing the public. They are for profit corporations after all.

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Re:NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time by dang on Friday June 28, 2019 @05:46PM (#20309030)

Would you please not take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents? They are predictable and therefore uninteresting. They also quickly get nasty.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20302240 and marked it off-topic.

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Re:NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time by airstrike on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:20AM (#20304514)

> Its the Wall Street Journal, not real news.

What exactly is real news to you, then? I think the WSJ / Bloomberg are pretty much as good as media gets.

Or if you think no media outlet is "real" and they're all motivated by profit, then that just means your definition of "real news" is entirely inaccurate.

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Re:NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time by inflatableDodo on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:56AM (#20303085)

Hi from the UK, where one of our current scandals is the state broadcaster censoring parts of a documentary about the foreign office, directly at the foreign office's request, in order to remove comments made by Boris Johnson, in which he called the French 'turds'.

The government has argued, according to leaked memos, that Johnson’s comment could cause ‘significant damage’ to Britain and that it made a mockery of the Government’s aim in agreeing to the documentary, to ‘promote Global Britain to a UK audience’."

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Re:NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time by butteroverflow on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:22AM (#20303201)

Hi from the former Soviet Union, where everything the state media says is true, and if it doesn't turn out to be true, it is because of misinformation spread by our foreign enemies.

I was not aware you should not post here anything less literal than x86 assembly, now I know.

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Re:NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time by inflatableDodo on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:33AM (#20303272)

Sorry, reading back through, I think my sarcasm meter must be badly broken. I'll check the batteries.

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Re:NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time by airstrike on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:14AM (#20304456)

It was pretty obvious to me haha and a great comment. The WSJ is a fantastic organization imho, at least as good as any media organization can realistically aspire to be

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Re:NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time by roblabla on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:36AM (#20303015)

They might not have the same motivation to write clickbait articles, but state-sponsored news certainly has plenty of motivation to distort the facts as well. We've seen what the current US administration thinks of the truth...

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