Where to start? It seems like new developments about domestic spying are coming every hour. Before we get ahead of ourselves, here’s a good AP piece which will give you some background about how we got to this point. Glenn Greenwald & Ewen MacAskill from The Guardian broke the story and revealed the identity of the whistleblower, Edward Snowden while Barton Gellman & Laura Poitrus of The Washington Post had the breaking story of the metadata mining program, “PRISM”. Here’s the link to my take on metadata gathering.
Tag: The Guardian
Margaret Thatcher 1925-2013
I’ve always envied the editorial cartoonists from the UK. Their cartoons generally are much more biting and the tolerance by the UK press (and public) for pushing the envelope higher than here in the U.S. Here’s Steve Bell’s obit cartoon of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; you can find his other cartoons here:
Beckhams leaving LaLa land
A cartoon from 2007 about David Beckham joining LA Galaxy (the Guardian on his departure).
