What are you... tell me your thoughts, just where you are with that? So primary one on...
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Ewen MacAskill:
What are you... tell me your thoughts, just where you are with that?
Edward Snowden:
So primary one on that, I think I've expressed it a couple times online, is I feel the modern media has a big focus on personalities.
Ewen MacAskill:
Totally.
Edward Snowden:
And I'm a little concerned that the more we focus on that the more they're going to use that as a distraction. I don't necessarily want that to happen, which is why I've consistently said, you know, I'm not the story here.
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Tell me your thoughts on where you are with that
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The primary one on that
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I think I've expressed that a couple times online
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is I feel the modern media has a big focus on personalities
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Totally
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And I'm a little concerned the more we focus on that
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the more they're gonna use that as a distraction
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And I don't necessarily want that to happen
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which is why I've consistently said you know
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I'm not the story here
Clip duration: 29 seconds
Views: 115
Timestamp in movie: 00h 22m 46s
Uploaded: 23 March, 2022
Genres: documentary
Summary: In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.
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00:07 I don't know why they did that but they did so
00:35 I uh my name is Edward Snowden
00:04 This is the fact you're about to break the most...
00:34 To walk into it um
00:24 Which I also learned at NSA
00:05 And why he thought it was so important to change the way we...
00:06 But I want to start introducing you
00:20 They were all briefed into the program
00:11 How in depth are we going just in general
00:09 There are cases where they could inadvertently
00:05 On when you guys are going to press with the first stories
00:03 In the history of man
00:05 And that's exactly what these programs do
00:04 So just walk me through it and
00:37 I do I do
00:04 When they resist policy changes and when they try to protest
00:21 For a little while
00:35 And assuming all kinds of worst case scenarios
00:10 You know any of their agents or assets
00:06 To the press in the public interest