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Journalism or stenography? Anonymous official sources go after Edward Snowden in the UK’s media.
Last week, the front page of Britain's Sunday Times bore the headline: British Spies Betrayed to Russians and Chinese.

For the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper's largely conservative audience, the implied breach of security perpetrated by former US National Surveillance Agency (NSA) analyst Edward Snowden could not have been more alarming.

However, standing behind that headline was not a shred of evidence, not one provable fact. Rather, the Sunday Times' bold statement was founded on unnamed government sources making unsubstantiated claims which the journalists involved apparently left unquestioned.

Plus: Radio & TV Marti: 30 years of covering Cuba from Miami.: For our feature story we return to Cuba - this time viewed from Miami where state department-funded Radio and TV Marti has spent the last three decades trying to offer citizens of the revolutionary island a more US-friendly version of the news.

The broadcaster now has a job to convince its funders that it still has relevance as US-Cuba relations thaw. The Listening Post's Marcela Pizarro reports from Miami on Radio and TV Marti's existential question.