It is difficult to have sympathy for the AP (and the rest of the mainstream media).

[Dawson Leery]

This is the same mainstream media which has told us that government intrusions into our personal lives/information is for our own safety.
For we common people, the government not only records the number/time/date/length/source of the call(as they did with the AP), they record the call. The same is done for email communications.

Yet when it happens to them, all hell brakes lose.

[Buzz Clik]

1. "elite media". When did "elite" become an insult?

My crazy rightwing in-laws are all about people they dislike being "elitists." I guess they get it from Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, or some other brainless blowhard.

Is this becoming a leftwing insult, too? Do we somehow prefer that everyone strive for total mediocrity or less?

[Poll_Blind]

2. Where's the surprise? One group which benefitted from government collusion suddenly...

...becomes victimized and squeals about it. On a much smaller scale, I see this happening all the time in real life. People benefit from situations which are, say, unethical, then suddenly remember their morals when the tables are turned.

Now, I guess you could apply a blanket rule that everyone behaving so hypocritically should deserve no mercy in such a situation but, frankly, that's just not tenable.

These people buy ink by the barrel. Now that they're getting a taste of what we've had to deal with, I say it only benefits us to support them because, although we may not always like or trust them, the shared common cause benefits us both.

What's the alternative? Relishing their victimization as some sort of due comeuppance to make up for our victimization?

In that case the real wrongdoer gets off the hook while two victims squabble. Benefits us not a bit.

PB

[randome]

3. The government did not record a thing.

They subpoenaed phone records. A very different thing and most likely completely legal.

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[Dawson Leery]

4. The government keeps copies of our calls/emails.

We commoners have been having our electronic communications tracked and saved.

The AP and the MSM have told us despite concerns, this is for our own "safety".

Yet, the AP has the time/date/duration/ of some calls subpoenaed, they raise hell.
The AP is being hypocritical.