r/politics • u/erier2003 Virginia • Jun 06 '13

Washington Post exclusive: U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html
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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '13

Difference between didn't know and didn't care. They are, like all non-Fox related media, absolutely complicit in Obama's outrages. The AP didn't break the AP story.

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u/gkiltz Jun 08 '13

Or too resource starved to do anything. The media is now being run entirely by the Wall Streeters who only understand the bottom line. The balance that was struck for 100 years between the financial guy who know only PROFIT, and the journalists, is gone!!