[miscellaneous]

Is it common practice for a newspaper to essentially reprint an article from another publication, without seeking a response from the (accused) parties?

I would expect at the very least for the BBC to seek a response from Snowden/Greenwald/theGuardian/etc before publishing this article with subheadings like: >'Hostile Countries' >'Huge Setback'

[pcrh]

In the UK there is little pretense that any journalistic publication is truly objective, so the tradition is for opposing parties to use different channels in the media.