Posted on 11/29/2010 4:51:18 PM PST by Yardstick
The New York Times is participating in the dissemination of the stolen State Department cables that have been made available to it in one way or another via WikiLeaks. My friend Steve Hayward recalls that only last year the New York Times ostentatiously declined to publish or post any of the Climategate emails because they had been illegally obtained. Surely readers will recall Times reporter Andrew Revkin's inspiring statement of principle: "The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won't be posted here."
Interested readers may want to compare and contrast Revkin's statement of principle with the editorial note posted by the Times on the WikiLeaks documents this afternoon. Today the Times cites the availability of the documents elsewhere and the pubic interest in their revelations as supporting their publication by the Times. Both factors applied in roughly equal measure to the Climategate emails.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
I don’t see the NYT as anything more than another website “forwarding” stuff that is public domain on the net.
Once it’s out there, it’s out there.
P*ss on the NYT.
Let’s hang Manning for treason and investigate his command chain.
Waste of good urine.
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I do hope the word in the piece was meant to be “public”
If this happened four years ago, the MSM would be billing it as a huge blow to President Bush, and figure out a way to blame it on him. Obama gets almost no blow back from his sychophants in the media.
It’s not hypocrisy.....it’s an agenda.
No wonder Obama wants to curtail the internet. There are too many folks who remember hypocrite leftists.
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You can say that again.
Along with NYT, Le Monde in France, Guardian in UK, El Pais in Spain and Der Spiegel and in Germany were all granted exclusive access.
I can’t get worked up about the Times.
I want to see Manning court martialed and hanged for treason.
And a rigorous investigation of his chain of command.
For dgh
At the bottom of the article:
“UPDATE: James Delingpole cruelly belabors the point...”
Wikileaks: Old Gray Lady invokes the harlot’s prerogative
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