Posted on 02/05/2015 12:49:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In a survey of investigative reporters that makes Richard Nixon’s enemies list look like child's play, nearly seven in 10 said they believe that the Obama administration has spied on their phone calls, emails and online searches.
According to a Pew Research Center survey of 454 media figures, 64 percent “believe that the U.S. government has probably collected data” from their calls and email and eight in 10 believe just being a journalist jumps the chance Uncle Sam is spying on them.
The survey follows multiple reports of actual spying by federal officials on reporters, and the White House’s effort to track down those who leak information to reporters despite long-forgotten promises to be the most transparent administration ever.
Still, most reporters said that they continue to plug away.
“Just 14 percent say that in the past 12 months, such concerns have kept them from pursuing a story or reaching out to a particular source, or have led them to consider leaving investigative journalism altogether,” said the survey of members of Investigative Reporters and Editors by Pew in association with Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
It has, though, prompted about half to change how they do their job, by inventing new ways to store and collect their information.
That’s in part because they don’t have much faith in online security offered by their employers or internet service providers.
Read the full report here.
That’s proof of waste of money.
The Dorkbama Clown Show is spying on its closest allies.
They should devote more monies to spying on its enemies.
Such as those who have productive jobs, measurable IQs, and good morals.
Note that his pretty well eliminates the vast majority of congresscritters also, along with their minion lobby critters.
But Sharyl Attkisson is a kook.
So they kiss his toes in return?
...but afterwards, he tells them he loves them and that he won’t ever do it again, and they DO love him so...
Hey, they’re just imposing the most transparency upon them. What could be wrong with that?
Sounds a lot like the typical GOP voter as of late...
Exactly. But, maybe they are already spending as much as they can on Freeper surveillance and the like.
‘Reporters’ are SO self important, they’d say that no matter who is in the WH
That too.
This is just a matter of self-delusion!
They report his talking points as if they are gospel! Then they turn around a scream, “Damn! How did he know we were going to report this?”
He MUST be spying on us!
A kook who magically makes her computer act crazy by pressing a wrong button...
‘Cause all our computers act crazy at the push of a button. Everybody knows that, except the kooks.
Do I need to put the /s?
So uh, where’s the hysterical calls for his impeachment like we saw from these clowns in 1974?
Because its more fun to spy on your citizens and make their lives a living hell than just doing your job
It’s what Dictatorships do
Good!
“It’s what Dictatorships do..”
Yes, Hitler did the same thing.
And the other third are even dumber than you already thought they were.
Yet they will vote for their izzzlumic messiah. The love fest for the religion of rape and murder birthed by a mentally disturbed pedophile.
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