'What the Guardian is doing is important for democracy'

There's been a concerted effort among some politicians and a few of their pet media to accuse The Guardian – you remember, the paper that published the Edward Snowden material? – of treason. So, The Guardian showed one of these articles, from The Daily Mail, to some publishers and editors at various important newspapers, and printed their responses.

Yes, there's a lot of two-faced stuff, here. Papers like the New York Times, which regularly flacks for the US government, for example. But it's fair to say that all these media owners and editors at least understand the principle that's at stake when politicians defend secrecy and lies.

10 October 2013 | The Guardian
On Thursday the Daily Mail described the Guardian as 'The paper that helps Britain's enemies'. We showed that article to many of the world's leading editors. This is what they said:

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Grim report on press freedoms under Obama

Zoë Carpenter | The Nation | 10 Oct 2013

What sets the Obama administration apart from others, said Downie, is not its attempt to control the media narrative but rather its ability to do so. “What’s significant here is the very sophisticated, very successful, very determined way they’ve gone about doing this,” Downie told The Nation. “Most administrations aren’t very successful. This one has been very tightly disciplined.”

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