So NYTimes editor throws Assange under a bus? Of course, the Times is a Serious paper that helped the US invade Iraq so everybody should take that publication very seriously, indeed: Is WikiLeaks a media organization, or is it something else? It’s a question with important implications, given the special protections afforded the press, but…
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Yes: “The watchdog press died; we have Wikileaks instead”
I’m coming a little late to this but I like it. Here’s US journalism professor Jay Rosen explaining how the mainstream media, after its capitulation to the US “national security state” post September 11, no longer became a reliable check on power (whether it was before 9/11, well, that’s another question). Wikileaks is therefore the…
Major Aussie media figures stand up for Wikileaks
Finally some Australian media heavy-weights join the cause in support of Wikileaks. It’s taken far too long but they clearly realise that this entire issue isn’t just about Wikileaks; it’s about our right to read important information in the public interest: The letter was initiated by… the Walkley Foundation and signed by the ten members…
We pay drug dealers in Afghanistan
This is what the glorious “war on terror” is all about: When Hajji Juma Khan was arrested and transported to New York to face charges under a new American narco-terrorism law in 2008, federal prosecutors described him as perhaps the biggest and most dangerous drug lord in Afghanistan, a shadowy figure who had helped keep…
Friedman fears a nation with equal rights for all
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is a little worried that a one-state solution may be coming to the Middle East because both Israel and Palestine supposedly aren’t serious about building a two-state solution. Now whose fault would that be? Perhaps a US government (and Zionist lobby) who have indulged Zionist violence and settlements for…
So many Jews are AWOL on Palestinian rights
To his credit, Roger Cohen highlights in the New York Times the ongoing denial of mainstream Zionist groups in the US: Ira Stup was raised in Philadelphia attending Jewish day school and camps. He found his home in the Jewish community and was “intoxicated with Jewish democracy” as framed in the ideals of Israel’s foundation.…
US citizens need to realise Wikileaks significance
America under the Wikileaks spell: The reader response has been huge. Millions of page views. It’s divided between those focused on the phenomenon (WikiLeaks, our decision to report secret cables, the pursuit of Julian Assange) and those interested in the contents of the documents. The first camp outnumbers the second, and it is in turn…
Sydney’s Daily Telegraph on big Sydney Wikileaks rally
Today’s big rally for Wikileaks in Sydney (I think around 2000 people were there) saw a wide cross section of people outraged with the intimidation of Wikileaks and Julian Assange and the Gillard government’s capitulation to American demands. I spoke and chaired the event. This story appears in the Daily Telegraph: Protestors today converged on…
Now it’s time for the MSM to stand up and stand firm
So the New York Times may be investigated for espionage after publishing the Wikileaks cable documents?
Why Wikileaks matters part 9753
There is SO much about Wikileaks at the moment that it’s truly hard to keep up. The following is a select selection of some of the more revealing revelations, related stories and controversies. Laurie Oakes in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph: Julia Gillard couldn’t help herself. She had to join the chorus of American hard-liners calling for…