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Erschienen am 21.8.2013

Bradley Manning and the Two Americas (Quinn Norton, Medium)
"The first America built the Internet, but the second America moved onto it. And they both think they own the place now."

Why The Washington Post uses WordPress (The Journalism Iconoclast)
Video: "Ben Bradlee is 93 years old. Do you think he wants to use your crappy CMS?"

GCHQ: inside the top secret world of Britain's biggest spy agency (Nick Hopkins, Julian Borger und Luke Harding, The Guardian)
Warum ist die Regierung so sauer auf den "Guardian"? Dieses Stück ist Teil der Antwort. "Files leaked by Edward Snowden reveal how the NSA pays for and influences some of the UK’s intelligence gathering programmes. The documents also give unique insights into the challenges faced by the agency and the concerns it has about how to tackle them."

English, French, Arabic But No Hebrew for New Israeli News Channel (Debra Kamin, Tablet Magazine)
Nach Al Jazeera America noch ein 24-Stunden-Nachrichtensender: „The goal, Melloul says, is not so much to promote Israel’s interests, but to shift the media narrative by adding to the mix of stories available on television.“

Armut als Lebensstil – Das prekäre Leben (Sara Chahrrour, Neue Elite)
Da ist er wieder, der Berlin-Blues: "Viele – insbesondere hier in Berlin – kennen es: nachdem man sich von den Fesseln der 08/15-Anstellungen befreit hat, arbeitet man plötzlich in einem Umfeld, in dem die Arbeit etwas bedeutet."