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Re:'60 Minutes': NSA Good, Snowden Bad by blahbl4hblahtoo on Monday December 16, 2013 @08:16AM (#6914486)
Look, existing media outlets are incapable of certain kinds of criticism. Its as unlikely that 60 minutes would take a anti-NSA stance as it would be to take an anti-Army stance. Establishment players are just that...im not even a 100% Snowden backer... but expecting anti-establishment journalism form the definition of the establishment is just going to give you indigestion.
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Re:'60 Minutes': NSA Good, Snowden Bad by groups on Monday December 16, 2013 @12:13PM (#6916125)
Look up the Pentagon Papers and Woodward and Bernstein (and Rathergate, though that criticism was erroneous) for examples of established media sharply and consequentially criticizing the US government.

The media /are/ capable of it, and they /used/ to do it.

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