Rolling Stone Article RatingWe're Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong
Jun 16, 2023 View Original Article
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| "And there, the Court emphatically ruled that every moment's continuance of the injunctions against these newspapers amounts to a flagrant, indefensible, and continuing violation of the First Amendment." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "He urged me to press forward without concern for any such intimidation, and to see the prospect of criminal prosecution as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fight the DOJ over constitutional guarantees of press freedom." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Ellsberg presumed that leaking the Pentagon Papers would not only subject him to criminal prosecution but also attempted character assassination." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "While attempting to flee to South American to obtain asylum, Snowden was trapped by Obama officials in Russia, after they invalidated his passport and coerced the Cubans into withdrawing their guarantee of safe passage." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "That blast reached its maximum radius in the 2010s, when President Obama oversaw the prosecution of eight whistleblowers under this law -- more than all previous presidents combined." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Leaders of both parties dared Snowden to come back to the U.S. Then-Secretary of State John Kerry said Snowden should man up and argue to a jury of his American peers that he was justified in leaking the surveillance behemoth's secrets." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Holder's firing, Ellsberg said, would be a first step of resistance in the right direction, of rolling back Obama's campaign against journalism, freedom of the press in national security." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Ellsberg assigned a significant amount of blame to President Obama for aggressively eroding many of those reforms." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "And he scoffed at the idea that Obama was any better than Nixon when it came to press freedoms: I'm sure that President Obama would have sought a life sentence in my case, he said." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "And he scoffed at the idea that Obama was any better than Nixon when it came to press freedoms: I'm sure that President Obama would have sought a life sentence in my case, he said." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "Ellsberg said Snowden, by knowingly risking life in prison to prove that senior Obama officials had lied about NSA spying, show[ed] the kind of courage that we expect of people on the battlefield." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "The authenticity of his convictions were never in doubt: Despite being someone situated on the left wing of American politics, he was scathing in his critiques of President Obama's unprecedented attacks on whistleblowers." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "For that reason, Ellsberg was scathing of Obama's attacks on whistleblowers such as Snowden and Maing." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "While attempting to flee to South American to obtain asylum, Snowden was trapped by Obama officials in Russia, after they invalidated his passport and coerced the Cubans into withdrawing their guarantee of safe passage." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "He argued in that interview that Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, should have been fired for illegally spying on numerous journalists including Fox News' James Rosen." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "He argued in that interview that Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, should have been fired for illegally spying on numerous journalists including Fox News' James Rosen." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "Having believed in Obama's 2007-08 vows to uproot the core precepts of the War on Terror, he viewed Obama's strengthening of those precepts as a betrayal: not only of Ellberg's trust but of Obama's core oath of office." | Negative | -74% Liberal |
| "Having believed in Obama's 2007-08 vows to uproot the core precepts of the War on Terror, he viewed Obama's strengthening of those precepts as a betrayal: not only of Ellberg's trust but of Obama's core oath of office." | Negative | -74% Liberal |
| "Having believed in Obama's 2007-08 vows to uproot the core precepts of the War on Terror, he viewed Obama's strengthening of those precepts as a betrayal: not only of Ellberg's trust but of Obama's core oath of office." | Negative | -74% Liberal |
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57% : And there, the Court emphatically ruled that "every moment's continuance of the injunctions against these newspapers amounts to a flagrant, indefensible, and continuing violation of the First Amendment."41% : He urged me to press forward without concern for any such intimidation, and to see the prospect of criminal prosecution as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fight the DOJ over constitutional guarantees of press freedom.
38% :Ellsberg presumed that leaking the Pentagon Papers would not only subject him to criminal prosecution but also attempted character assassination.
28% : While attempting to flee to South American to obtain asylum, Snowden was trapped by Obama officials in Russia, after they invalidated his passport and coerced the Cubans into withdrawing their guarantee of safe passage.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.