Link: The Casualties of Cacophony – New Essay

NinaIllingworth October 1, 2019November 17, 2022 1984, Books, Can't You Read, Chelsea Manning, CIA, corporate media, Edward Snowden, Espionage Act, Essays, George Orwell, Jeff Bezos, Julian Assange, Karl Rove, liberal media, manufacturing consent, Marshall McLuhan, mass surveillance, Media, Michael Parenti, Nina Illingworth, NSA, Offsite Writing, Permanent Record, police state, privacy rights, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, Russia, spying, The Guardian, the medium is the message, US government spying, war on freedom of the press, War on Whistleblowers, Washington Post, whistleblowers, Wikileaks

Editor’s note: today’s link comes from my literature-focused image blog at “Can’t You Read” where I’ve recently been talking a bit about Edward Snoden’s new biography, Permanent Record.

In this long (ish) essay I take a look at the legacy of Snowden’s sacrifice in the American media and what’s changed about western liberal attitudes towards whistleblowers in the six full years since the author shocked the world by exposing the NSA’s global online surveillance program. Everyone knows that lies and smears against whistleblowers have been part and parcel to the Snowden story, but what happens when those lies and smears go unchecked for half a decade, even though everyone knows they’re bullshit? Nothing good for the proles in the Pig Empire, that’s for sure.

You can check out the article by clicking on either the link, or the image below:

The Casualties of Cacophony

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