Edward Snowden and the Document Leak
By the leaking of important documents from the National Security Agency, Edward Snowden has taken the spotlight onto him and has changed the views on what and what not should be kept a secret to the public. The following three articles from The Guardian, Washington Post and The New York Times shows a comparison of different views and points that people have based on this issue.
The Guardian newspaper, a daily newspaper that is well known in America released an article on June 30th addressing the wide world perspective that Snowden had not just committed a crime, and had been accused of certain things but a sequence of events have taken place due to the actions of Snowden such as the prospects for a new trade between the US and European Union that is worth hundreds of billions of dollars. This article is emphasising that Edward Snowden's actions are jeopardising the financial benefits of the US. It has been stated in this article that the German publication Der Spiegel reported that he had seen documents and slides from Edward Snowden. Through the evidence shown Germany's, justice minister asked for an explanation from the U.S. authorities and said "If the media reports are true it is reminiscent of the actions of enemies during the cold war and it is beyond imagination that our friends in the US view Europeans as the enemy." This article portrays and makes a view on Edward Snowden to be a person who has continued this much further and continues to become worse as he leaked information to the Europeans.
Peter Finn and Sari Horwitz opinion piece, featured in the Washington Post on the 21st of June, engages the reader by describing Edward Snowden's accusations for what he has committed and to encourage the reader to think that he has done a terrible thing. This article generally gives the readers to have a specific view which is the writer's view and gives on the emotion as something to be angry with him as the society of America and America's security is at
The Guardian newspaper, a daily newspaper that is well known in America released an article on June 30th addressing the wide world perspective that Snowden had not just committed a crime, and had been accused of certain things but a sequence of events have taken place due to the actions of Snowden such as the prospects for a new trade between the US and European Union that is worth hundreds of billions of dollars. This article is emphasising that Edward Snowden's actions are jeopardising the financial benefits of the US. It has been stated in this article that the German publication Der Spiegel reported that he had seen documents and slides from Edward Snowden. Through the evidence shown Germany's, justice minister asked for an explanation from the U.S. authorities and said "If the media reports are true it is reminiscent of the actions of enemies during the cold war and it is beyond imagination that our friends in the US view Europeans as the enemy." This article portrays and makes a view on Edward Snowden to be a person who has continued this much further and continues to become worse as he leaked information to the Europeans.
Peter Finn and Sari Horwitz opinion piece, featured in the Washington Post on the 21st of June, engages the reader by describing Edward Snowden's accusations for what he has committed and to encourage the reader to think that he has done a terrible thing. This article generally gives the readers to have a specific view which is the writer's view and gives on the emotion as something to be angry with him as the society of America and America's security is at