Assange: How "The Guardian" Milked Edward Snowden's Story

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Something for everyone.

The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man(Guardian/Faber & Faber, 2014) by Luke Harding is a hack job in the purest sense of the term. Pieced together from secondary sources and written with minimal additional research to be the first to market, the book's thrifty origins are hard to miss.

The Guardian is a curiously inward-looking beast. If any other institution tried to market its own experience of its own work nearly as persistently as The Guardian, it would surely be called out for institutional narcissism. But because The Guardian is an embarrassingly central institution within the moribund "left-of-center" wing of the U.K. establishment, everyone holds their tongue.

In recent years, we have seen The Guardian consult itself into cinematic history -- in the Jason Bourne films and others -- as a hip, ultra-modern, intensely British newspaper with a progressive edge, a charmingly befuddled giant of investigative journalism with a cast-iron spine.

The Snowden Files positions The Guardian as central to the Edward Snowden affair, elbowing out more significant players like Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras for Guardian stablemates, often with remarkably bad grace.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Assange-How-The-Guardian-by-Julian-Assange-Edward-Snowden_Guardian_Journalism_StoryTelling-150422-38.html

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1. Funny how nobody wants to touch this...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016120788

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2. Maybe we'll have better luck this time.

Newsweak is a very untrustworthy source, maybe people will pay attention now that it's from OpEdnews.