The Woman Who Filmed Snowden

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It's pretty much the same article but I enjoyed the Poitras profile done for New Yorker[1] by George Packer. It got me interested enough to find some of her earlier docs and give them a watch.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/20/holder-secrets

The article talks a lot about how careful journalists have to be to protect themselves when reporting such stories.

Are we nearing a time where journalists simply won't be able to?

You have always needed to be careful, depending on which power you were speaking truth about, just ask Anna Politkovskaya.

It's reassuring to see that Ms. Poitras did not feel the need to be so careful with Russia's FSB. Why, they even helped her keep her "scoop" secret until her news of her movie revealed that Lindsay Mills had been brought into Moscow to join Edward Snowden, which was very nice of them.

After all, it's not like they had to edit Mills out of this story: http://lifenews.ru/news/137867 posted a couple of months ago on Aug. 5th (LifeNews is closely affiliated with the Kremlin: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/russia-media-tycoons-expand-k...)

Thank you for changing the title! The original one is cute now, but would freak me out otherwise.

Vice does that with every title.

I find it a very mean mentality from its operators.

Hopefully they'll find more hope in humanity. H

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