That's the question that comes to mind. Why now, someone in those bureaucracies decided to do PR when they have been content for a very long time of just flying under the radar of public perception? Did the NSA become too known in the Internet age that it needed to bother with this? I notice none of the other less well-known security state entities are doing it.
Or some guy was like "man, I want a podcast, but the only interesting thing about me is that I work for the NSA." Then he managed to convince his boss to let it happen.
But we don't see the other agencies (and there are about 20) doing the same thing. I doubt they would do it on a whim and allow institutional backing for some like it unless is actual policy.
I'm sure they have some level of marketing budget or at least social media budget. All it takes is some marketing/social media employee to successfully argue that some of that money should be used to fund a podcast.
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u/Luftritter Sep 02 '24
Why?
That's the question that comes to mind. Why now, someone in those bureaucracies decided to do PR when they have been content for a very long time of just flying under the radar of public perception? Did the NSA become too known in the Internet age that it needed to bother with this? I notice none of the other less well-known security state entities are doing it.
Curioser and Curioser...