The increasingly irrational cult of the whistle-blower is bad for politics and bad for journalism. We need some heretics to blow it apart. Brendan O’Neill, spiked
The cult of the whistleblower is getting out of hand.
In 24 hours, Edward Snowden has gone from being a former contract worker at America’s National Security Agency to a godlike figure who has apparently ‘saved us’ from ‘the United Stasi of America’. It’s the religious terminology that is most striking. For leaking info about how the NSA keeps tabs on the communications of both American and foreign citizens, Snowden has been referred to not only as a saviour but also as a ‘martyr’. He’s praised for revealing to us, the sleeping ones, ‘the truth’ about our world. Journalists fawn over the ‘earth-shaking magnitude of the truth’ he has revealed. His own codename in his dealings with hacks was Verax, Latin for ‘one who tells the truth’ and a recurring word in the writings of old-world Catholic scholars on the lives of the saints and seers. If Snowden possesses Christ’s capacity for ‘saving’ people, he lacks His humility.
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europiid20 Jun 2013 05:38
Loodan, et Island annab talle uue kodumaa
pfhewt17 Jun 2013 13:28
as a commie, o'neill prefers, make that demands, that his thin opinions have sway over the unintelligent, historically uneducated masses
whistleblowers such as snowden are a threat to him as they reveal too much to the common man allowing common working class people to make up their own mind turning his inanae spiked into uneeded fluff
o'neill wants secular worship by the masses of o'neill !
Lugeja17 Jun 2013 01:11
Jah, ta rääkis tõtt. Mis siin nii valesti on?
Probleem on pigem et tõde enam kedagi ei huvita.
"Yes, there are numerous attacks on our civil liberties today, but you know what? We are more than capable of seeing who is carrying them out, and of doing something about them, without needing a secular icon of ‘truth’ to hold our hands or massage our allegedly tiny minds"
What are you doing about it???
Ma arvan et see on naiivne arusaamine mis tegelikult toimub. USA valitsus on sisuliselt oma kodanikele sõja kuulutanud. Brendan O’Neill on nn. "kasulik idioot" kes arvab et kui ta valitsuse lojalisti mängib siis ta saab prääniku.
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