The Guardian offers a fascinating explanation of how they processed the massive amount of documents given to them by Wikileaks.
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Pentagon says that stories about Pentagon aren’t true
Never trust a “Pentagon official”. Journalists should know better than trusting such anonymous sources. But of course they don’t. Hence this story: An ongoing Pentagon review of the massive flood of secret documents made public by the WikiLeaks website has so far found no evidence that the disclosure harmed U.S. national security or endangered American…
How to spin away the Wikileaks blues
The Wikileaks revelations are a spin problem to be solved, according to the White House mouth piece, Politico: The White House is dismissing the 92,000 Afghan war reports posted by WikiLeaks as old news — but the document dump poses a potent new threat to President Barack Obama’s delicately balanced Afghanistan policy. The field reports…
Is Wikileaks head Assange a serious target?
Leaker of the Pentagon Papers Daniel Ellsberg on Democracy Now! talks about what Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assanage could be facing: I speak from an unusual perspective there. In May 3rd, 1972, when I was on trial, in a major political trial with tremendous publicity on me, Richard Nixon, President Nixon, sent a dozen CIA assets…
Wikileaks as outsider threatens insider rules
The Wikileaks story over Afghanistan continues to reverberate around the world. The latest angles, analysis and stories here, here, here, here, here and here. A powerful explanation of how Wikileaks is changing the rules of the game is writer Jeff Sparrow in ABC Unleashed: …The release of the Afghan logs constitutes a damning indictment on…
Wikileaks is just warming up and democracy should be thankful
An exciting time to be a journalist and citizen of the world. Wikileaks is showing the corporate media that transparency and real reporting is the only way forward, if they want to remain relevant and not tied to establishment interests: The Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, said today that the organisation is working through a “backlog”…
Times buries civilian killings in Wikileaks story
Note the difference between the New York Times and Guardian dealing with the Wikileaks revelations over Afghanistan.
Real journalists welcome Wikileaks and don’t feel threatened by its power
For those wondering about the history of Wikileaks reporting, I’ve been writing about the website for years, including an interview with founder Julian Assange in 2008.
Wikileaks reveals the supposed trail of Bin Laden in Afghanistan (maybe)
Wired reveals yet another angle of the invaluable Wikileaks information dump: Most of the reports catalog counterinsurgency’s basics — weapons caches found, gun battles fought, village elders chatted up. But buried in the tens of thousands of U.S. military logs dropped Sunday night by WikiLeaks are incidents that are anything but routine: a suspected chemical…
Is a journalist’s job to please or offend the White House over Wikileaks? Obvious, really
Wikileaks, the world’s first stateless news organisation. And a modern dilemma for hyper-connected media companies, so used to being on the drip feed of the establishment: The… WikiLeaks report presented a unique dilemma to the three papers given advance copies of the 92,000 reports included in the Afghan war logs — the New York Times, Germany’s…