10August2014
Soon after Malaysian Airlines MH17 crashed near Donetsk, Ukraine on July 18, killing 298 people, the BBC website quickly, and rightly, set up a 'LIVE' feed with rolling reports and commentary on the disaster. This was clearly an important and dramatic event involving horrific loss of life with serious political implications. The public would, of course, be searching for the latest news.
However, since July 8, ten days prior to the crash, Israeli a...
By David Edwards
Writing for the Washington Post in June, Paul Farhi wondered if, in breaking the story of the US National Security Agency's spying programme, the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald had 'become somet...