re: #30 simoom

What I want to know is how today’s three question, narrowly focused WaPo interview came about, what were the terms, and how exactly it was conducted. There’s zero disclosure from WaPo (the interviewer isn’t even identified).

It reads like a one-question-at-a-time e-mail back and forth. One of Snowden’s earliest interviews was for the NYT Profile of Laura Poitras, which was focused on questions about her, and buried after the article was a brief note that the interview was conducted by e-mail, through Poitras as an intermediary. Was there again an intermediary between WaPo and Snowden? Who even pitched the interview (Greenwald? Snowden? Gellman?)

It’s frustrating that major papers obfuscate such basic background details, especially when so much of the Snowden affair is best understood as a deep collaboration between PR & media savvy activists.

Link?