[liberationtech] How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets

[Lina Srivastava]

"There's enough heroism to go around. To get a story of this magnitude
out requires courage from both sources and journalists. And safety is in
no way guaranteed for anyone involved. Plenty of journalists have lost
their lives in the course of their job, but the truth is that courage is
truly contagious -- journalists know this and hope that follow-on
coverage will help protect them from retribution.

Silence in the face of wrongdoing is corrosive. It will eat you alive
if you let it. =/"

Thanks for that. Griffin. Just putting a good word in for documentary
filmmakers and investigative journalists who also put their lives on
the line, to shape, frame, and communicate these stories and set a
stage for activists to do their end of the job. I work with a number
of them who don't think of themselves as heroes, but are just driven
to do this work through a sense of social justice.

Lina

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:19 PM, LilBambi <lilbambi at gmail.com> wrote:
> --snip--
>   There's enough heroism to go around. To get a story of this magnitude
> out requires courage from both sources and journalists. And safety is in
> no way guaranteed for anyone involved. Plenty of journalists have lost
> their lives in the course of their job, but the truth is that courage is
> truly contagious -- journalists know this and hope that follow-on
> coverage will help protect them from retribution.
>
>   Silence in the face of wrongdoing is corrosive. It will eat you alive
> if you let it. =/
> --snip--
>
> You got that right!
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Griffin Boyce <griffinboyce at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tom O wrote:
>>> So it's now become about the "heroism" of the journalists and not
>>> Snowden and mass govt surveillance. Right.
>>   There's enough heroism to go around. To get a story of this magnitude
>> out requires courage from both sources and journalists. And safety is in
>> no way guaranteed for anyone involved. Plenty of journalists have lost
>> their lives in the course of their job, but the truth is that courage is
>> truly contagious -- journalists know this and hope that follow-on
>> coverage will help protect them from retribution.
>>
>>   Silence in the face of wrongdoing is corrosive. It will eat you alive
>> if you let it. =/
>>
>> ~Griffin
>>
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