It's pretty much the same article but I enjoyed the Poitras profile done for New Yorker[1] by George Packer. It got me interested enough to find some of her earlier docs and give them a watch.
You have always needed to be careful, depending on which power you were speaking truth about, just ask Anna Politkovskaya.
It's reassuring to see that Ms. Poitras did not feel the need to be so careful with Russia's FSB. Why, they even helped her keep her "scoop" secret until her news of her movie revealed that Lindsay Mills had been brought into Moscow to join Edward Snowden, which was very nice of them.
[+] [-] groovylick|11 years ago|reply
[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/20/holder-secrets
[+] [-] grecy|11 years ago|reply
Are we nearing a time where journalists simply won't be able to?
[+] [-] mpyne|11 years ago|reply
It's reassuring to see that Ms. Poitras did not feel the need to be so careful with Russia's FSB. Why, they even helped her keep her "scoop" secret until her news of her movie revealed that Lindsay Mills had been brought into Moscow to join Edward Snowden, which was very nice of them.
After all, it's not like they had to edit Mills out of this story: http://lifenews.ru/news/137867 posted a couple of months ago on Aug. 5th (LifeNews is closely affiliated with the Kremlin: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/russia-media-tycoons-expand-k...)
[+] [-] poitrasIsWrong|11 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] JBiserkov|11 years ago|reply
[+] [-] WiggleYourIndex|11 years ago|reply
I find it a very mean mentality from its operators.
Hopefully they'll find more hope in humanity. H