On: XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything...

[curbrusiasm]

This has been up here for 5 hours and on the Guardian's website for nearly 6 hours. How is it possible that not the NYTimes, FOX, NPR, the Washington Post, or CNN have picked this up? These organizations are an embarrassment to the profession of journalism.

[0003 → curbrusiasm]

Here is the newsdiff of today's NYT article on the disclosure of the declassified docs. [1] Talk about burying...

http://newsdiffs.org/diff/290704/290768/www.nytimes.com/2013...

[curbrusiasm → 0003]

So rather than making a headline, update an article on another topic, specifically update an article about a PR move by the White House intended to stop talk on this issue. Assholes.

[typon → curbrusiasm]

I don't think its so much "an embarrassment to the profession of journalism" in terms of incompetency but rather willful ignorance.

[chrisstanchak → curbrusiasm]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6136016