The mainstream U.S. news media has been chuckling over the “irony” of NSA leaker Edward Snowden asking asylum from Latin American countries purported to suppress press freedom. But the smugness misses both the complex realities abroad and the U.S. government’s own assaults on information, says a group of scholars. An Open Letter to the Media: The supposed “irony” … Continue reading U.S. Mainstream Media Laughing at Snowden’s Asylum Requests