64% of Investigative Journalists Believe Themselves To Be Under Surveillance

[AuH20]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/64-reporters-say-feds-spying-on-their-email-calls-online-searches/article/2559854

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[pcosmar]

64% of Investigative Journalists Believe Themselves To Be Under Surveillance
And the rest of them are blissfully ignorant.

[Lucille]

Knowing most are statist hacks, they probably love the attention from the fascist government that they lie and shill for every day.


When asked to rank four challenges facing journalists today, an overwhelming majority (88%) of journalists identify decreasing resources in newsrooms as their top concern. No other issue comes close. Following far behind are: legal action against journalists (5%), electronic surveillance by governments or corporations (4%) and hacking targeted at journalists or news organizations (1%).

Thought so. Dumbasses.

[Suzanimal]

Knowing most are statist hacks, they probably love the attention from the fascist government that they lie and shill for every day.



Thought so. Dumbasses.



You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Lucille again.

[DamianTV]

Most of us now qualify as Journalists, but not in the classical sense.

Does anyone here feel that they may be part of the "Journalists that are under Surveillance"? After all, the NSA does not listen to "Bad People" they listen to "Interesting People". And what crowd would be more "interesting" as far as revealing the truth? These people that are doing the listening need to really consider the consequences of total surveillance. They need to ask why the Govt needs so much Privacy when the Citizens are the targets. Nothing to fear, nothing to hide, maybe our very own Govt has something to hide, and maybe it goes even deeper, despite whatever their security clearance allows them to see. Those very same security clearances are only there to prevent the agents from discovering the real truth for themselves. Want an example? William Binney. Want another example? Ed Snowden. Should I keep going?

[dannno]

And the rest of them are blissfully ignorant.

And they've got to be pretty horrible at their job.

[DamianTV]

And they've got to be pretty horrible at their job.

So horrible at their job the only way to get rid of them is to PROMOTE them instead of firing them?

[dannno]

So horrible at their job the only way to get rid of them is to PROMOTE them instead of firing them?

Well either they are investigating worthless things that don't require them to be officially watched/surveiled and so they are somewhat correct, or they are wrong and they are under surveillance and they are haven't done enough "investigation" to understand how our country's surveillance systems work. I mean, technically everyone is under surveillance in that their data is being collected, the question is whether an actual person is keeping track to make sure they are staying within established boundaries. Either way they suck.

[Natural Citizen]

Hm. Try getting shot at. Reporting on the ground is a little different than sitting in some news room with all of those pretty lights and colors flashing. The only thing flashing in front of true investigative journalists are bombs and bullets.

I mean, really, nothing says being under surveillance for reporting like being in the sites of a sniper in the danger zone. Right?

[dannno]

Hm. Try getting shot at. Reporting on the ground is a little different than sitting in some news room with all of those pretty lights and colors flashing. The only thing flashing in front of true investigative journalists are bombs and bullets.

And sometimes your car just gets completely out of hand..

[Natural Citizen]

And sometimes your car just gets completely out of hand..

Yes, that too. Good one. Dern shame about her.

Oh, you're talking about the other feller. Yep...

For a second there I was thinking of Serena Shim...

Mystery of American journalist killed in car crash in Turkey... just days after she claimed intelligence services had threatened her over her coverage of siege of Kobane (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2799924/mystery-american-journalist-killed-car-crash-turkey-just-days-claimed-intelligence-services-threatened-coverage-siege-kobane.html)

[Suzanimal]

Speaking of journalists being spied on...


Now The Senate Cares About Sharyl Attkisson

The former CBS correspondent’s lawyer says investigators looked at the wrong computer when concluding that she hadn’t, as she claims, been hacked. A tangled case continues.
The bruised and battered Democrats may have lost the Senate, but they haven’t lost their zest for battle—nor, for that matter, their wily powers of political tradecraft.

The case of former CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson offers the latest evidence that the Senate’s freshly demoted minority party still has some mad skills in the spinning hardball department.

Attkisson—whose hard-edged reports on Obama administration missteps deeply angered officials and elected Democrats loyal to the president—got a taste of payback last week when she appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Shortly after she finished her time at the microphone Jan. 29, Attkisson found herself the subject of proliferating online media stories—possibly aided and abetted by Senate Democratic staffers—that raised doubts about her credibility and made her look slightly foolish, while providing a textbook example of inside-the-Beltway legerdemain.

Attkisson, who as a veteran Washington journalist has often been the beneficiary of such media-savvy practices, said in an email to The Daily Beast: “Experience teaches us to be cautious of the motives of people who expend so much effort trying to disparage and controversialize those exposing and alleging wrongdoing— while they unskeptically swallow anything spoon-fed to them by powers-that-be, no matter how factually ridiculous.”

The 54-year-old reporter—who quit CBS in March after a 20-year career in the Washington bureau, and these days contributes stories to The Daily Signal, a news site backed by the right-wing Heritage Foundation—is suing the U.S. Department of Justice and the Postal Service, as well as outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder and former Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, for their alleged involvement in apparent cyber-attacks on her CBS News computer.

“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that you don’t hand over your computer to the very people that you’re contending infected it to begin with.”
CBS News confirmed in June 2013 that a cybersecurity firm, hired by the network to conduct a forensic analysis of Attkisson’s company-issued laptop, determined that it had been hacked by “an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions in late 2012.”

So Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley’s staff—while recruiting witness panels for the confirmation hearing of Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, the woman chosen to replace Holder as attorney general—invited Attkisson to testify about the alleged hacking, which she says her own privately-hired experts traced to an I.P. address at the Postal Service.

She also discussed the Obama Justice Department’s multiple national security prosecutions arising from classified revelations by news outlets, and its allegedly draconian restrictions on freedom of the press. (Attkisson is hardly an outlier in suggesting that President Obama and his attorney general are threats to the First Amendment; it is a widely held view in the journalism business.)

Enter Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, the No. 5 Democrat on Judiciary. Sitting at the nearly-empty dais during a lull in the proceedings, Whitehouse placed in the hearing record a redacted summary of a just-completed Justice Department Inspector General’s report concluding that a forensic examination of Attkisson’s personal computer—not her CBS-issued laptop—was unable to find “evidence of remote or unauthorized access.”

Attkisson, who’d lent her MacBook Air to the government investigators who initially told her that they believed something fishy was going on, had been unable to obtain either the redacted summary or their full report despite months of trying, including filing a Freedom of Information Act request, until the evening before her testimony.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/05/now-the-senate-cares-about-sharyl-attkisson.html

[enhanced_deficit]

There is a speech on this topic by ddg before his selection/election, anyone has link?