Does David Miranda Count As a Journalist? That's Not the Point

By: George Brock | The Guardian

In all the protest and debate over the Guardian's disclosures of widespread personal communications surveillance and the nine-hour detention of David Miranda at Heathrow airport, an odd theme has kept recurring, something that must seem to many like a side issue. Is Miranda a journalist?

Miranda lives in Brazil with his partner Glenn Greenwald, who has been disclosing the material leaked by Edward Snowden about the scope of interception by the American and British authorities.