Does Edward Snowden Flight Change The Narrative Of NSA Story?

[Purveyor]

I had a great chance today to be part of two panels on CNN's "Reliable Sources" that looked at how the media were framing the NSA surveillance story even as Edward Snowden was en route to Moscow and points beyond looking for asylum in Ecuador.

Host Howie Kurtz and the producers threw out the show's game plan and went with the Snowden story during all segments but one Sunday.

Check out these two videos not just to see CNN's worldwide coverage, but also how Kurtz and his guests were able to critique the media aspect of the story as the story itself was unfolding. They explained how Snowden's actions could dramatically shift the media -- as it was actually shifting.

After I got home and listened to replays of some of the other Sunday morning shows, I was shocked at how many guests and hosts had all but instantly dropped their privacy, First Amendment and excessive surveillance concerns to focus on Snowden in negative ways.

---CLIP
Forget what you think sbout Snowden. Focus on the issue of our government secretly moving into every aspect of our lives under a president who promised transparency.


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[Harmony Blue]

1. Sunday talk shows today

could be summed up like this: A bunch of old, white rich men negatively talking about Snowden.

[The Second Stone]

2. Snowden is small potatoes, nearly every official

and media figure in the Beltway have betrayed their oaths of office to spy on us, setting up a surveillance state that would have the East German Stasi blushing with envy. I have a right not to be spied on. This is tyranny. Yeah, Snowden, and the previous whistleblowers who were ignored, broke their oaths of secrecy.

[bowens43]

3. The messenger is irrelevant.

this administration is trying to spin this into something less then the vile attack on our civil liberties that is. The only thing they can do is try to take attention away from what they have done to us.

[Puzzledtraveller]

4. no, Snowden does not matter

I don't care where he goes, what he revealed is what matters.

[CakeGrrl]

5. What did he reveal that was not known?

[pscot]

6. No

[Ron Obvious]

7. Not to me.

He'd be a fool to stay around and be Bradley Manninged.