[liberationtech] How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets

[Fran Parker]

And that is a very noble cause. 

On Aug 21, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Lina Srivastava <lina at linasrivastava.com> wrote:

> "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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