This post relates to the Snowden/Guardian debate and SHOULD be used as a media text for the half-term written work. Our Prime Minister seemed to attack any criticism of the behaviour of the security services in a very childish manner. He used the phrase 'Lah-dih-dah and airy-fairy' to describe arguments against the mass surveillance that has been uncovered by Snowdon. He then signed an agreement with France and Germany that COMPLETELY CONTRADICTED his earlier statement. He signed a joint statement with other European leaders that questioned and challenged America's 'spying' culture.The Daily Mail represented Cameron's speech as a direct attack on The Guardian's publication of the Snowden material. See resource below:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2476892/Lah-dih-dah-airy-fairy-Camerons-swipe-Guardian-defends-intelligence-services-eavesdropping-claims
Channel Four News Report. This report includes Cameron's odd comments:
http://www.channel4.com/news/nsa-merkel-hollande-spying-summit-us-phone-contacts
Cameron made these statements on the same day that we were discussing this issue. Feel free to include reference to this confusing moment in your work. What does our Prime Minister actually think and why is he using the language of a child to represent a key democratic issue that has caused global outrage? Politicians eh? Don't you just love 'em?
The Guardian published this article on Monday28th Oct:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/28/david-cameron-nsa-threat-newspapers-guardian-snowden
Note the readers' comments.
Students need to be aware of this agreement:
http://www.channel4.com/news/1946-agreement-nsa-read-your-email-prism-data
Oh the irony...Click on link below:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24712214
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