Posted on 03/14/2011 5:37:00 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Not so surprisingly, the Columbia Journalism Review has weighed in on the WikiLeaks controversy. Somewhat surprisingly, the article that the magazine published by the Journalism School at Columbia University ran on WikiLeaks is a bit more nuanced than its full-throated endorsement of Al-Jazeera.
Perhaps that is because an outside contributor—Goucher College President Sanford J. Ungar—penned the analysis of WikiLeaks that appeared in the March/April 2011 issue of the CJR while its editorial boosting Al-Jazeera was an inside job.
“As it happens, the WikiLeaks drama unfolds as we approach the fortieth anniversary of the publication of the Pentagon Papers, and it is useful to think about secrets through that prism,” Ungar claims. No less a personage than Vice-President Joe Biden took issue with the WikiLeaks-Pentagon Papers comparison, in an appearance on Meet the Press late last year.
Ungar simultaneously downplays the renegade site’s accomplishments and minimizes its dangers.
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