They came to an agreement with Snowden and should honor that. We might want to see the rest, but I think long term it’s better for leakers to know journalists are trustworthy.
The reasoning in the article is primarily about how the journalists felt there was fatigue/reduced demand/lack of ability to understand/etc, aside from the comment about censoring the operational pieces, there was little mention of Snowden's wishes.
So, based on the article, we shouldn't be blindly trustful of the journalists' thoughts on this matter; they are clearly biased toward the information published as well as the value it brings their brand (individual or employer).
Yeah, if journalists simply bypassed the agreement, a future source might say "OK, I want to expose this bad thing that a government agency is doing, but if I do, the journalists will probably be careless about it and people will get killed" (or whatever the case may be).
If Snowden himself had had to redact everything ahead of time, or study everything in fine detail beforehand to determine all the implications of publishing it, he wouldn't have been able to leak nearly as much material.
Yep a huge reason (some) people don’t like Snowden is because he leaked extremely classified information. I’m sure he himself only wanted to give away information that exposed the NSA’s surveillance network and only actually distributing the documents he leaked that are relevant to that point is his goal
So, based on the article, we shouldn't be blindly trustful of the journalists' thoughts on this matter; they are clearly biased toward the information published as well as the value it brings their brand (individual or employer).