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devil21
04-14-2014, 10:09 PM
A top journalism award for releasing less than 2% of the information they have?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/washington-post-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-public-service-shared-with-guardian/2014/04/14/bc7c4cc6-c3fb-11e3-bcec-b71ee10e9bc3_story.html

CaseyJones
04-14-2014, 10:22 PM
let's see if your thread does better than mine
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?449676-WashPost-Guardian-get-Pulitzer-for-Snowden-NSA-story&p=5491849#post5491849

devil21
04-14-2014, 10:36 PM
let's see if your thread does better than mine
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?449676-WashPost-Guardian-get-Pulitzer-for-Snowden-NSA-story&p=5491849#post5491849

Ha, I saw your thread after I posted mine so added the 2% hook to the title. Game on!

mad cow
04-14-2014, 10:43 PM
let's see if your thread does better than mine
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?449676-WashPost-Guardian-get-Pulitzer-for-Snowden-NSA-story&p=5491849#post5491849

Heh.It has already had more action than yours and mine combined.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?446835-Edward-Snowden-looms-over-Pulitzer-Prizes&highlight=pulitzer

This is a very good thing,much better than not winning.
Pulitzer prize winning writer Glenn Greenwald...kinda rolls off the tongue.

From the link in the OP:

“Disclosing the massive expansion of the NSA’s surveillance network absolutely was a public service,” Baron said. “In constructing a surveillance system of breathtaking scope and intrusiveness, our government also sharply eroded individual privacy. All of this was done in secret, without public debate, and with clear weaknesses in oversight.”

Baron added that without Snowden’s disclosures, “we never would have known how far this country had shifted away from the rights of the individual in favor of state power. There would have been no public debate about the proper balance between privacy and national security. As even the president has acknowledged, this is a conversation we need to have.”

CaseyJones
04-14-2014, 10:55 PM
so we are the only three who care about this I guess... we should hang out sometime