<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pvnick</author><text>I would say 1) this revelation is too shocking to be parroted without smoking gun evidence to support it (eg copies of the top secret documents themselves) and 2) journalists these days are too much in bed with the establishment to stir the waters that much and ask these kinds of hard questions posed by &amp;quot;fringe elements&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;What do you think?</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Any major media outlet in the country right now could 1.5-3x its pageviews or audience share by going wall-to-wall on the revelation that NSA &lt;i&gt;spied on Barack Obama before he was a candidate&lt;/i&gt;. None of them have. Why is that?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NSA whistleblower Russ Tice goes on record with new revelations</title><url>http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/06/19/podcast-show-112-nsa-whistleblower-goes-on-record-reveals-new-information-names-culprits/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trevelyan</author><text>This could easily be misinformation. That said, Russ Tice has more credibility than you do when it comes to talking about NSA capabilities, in that his claims of unconstitutional spying (dating back to 2005) anticipated and are well-supported by the leaked NSA documentation, while your claims dating two weeks back about how everything is operating under reasonable judicial oversight have already been proven wrong.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Any major media outlet in the country right now could 1.5-3x its pageviews or audience share by going wall-to-wall on the revelation that NSA &lt;i&gt;spied on Barack Obama before he was a candidate&lt;/i&gt;. None of them have. Why is that?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NSA whistleblower Russ Tice goes on record with new revelations</title><url>http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/06/19/podcast-show-112-nsa-whistleblower-goes-on-record-reveals-new-information-names-culprits/</url></story>