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Posted on 12/10/2010 10:32:26 AM PST by Neil E. Wright
Imagine the year is 1942 and the German government runs a news bureau in Washington, D.C. collecting government secrets. Even FDR would have laughed at claims they were actual journalists, locked them up and thrown away the key.
He would have been right. There’s a huge difference between an individual or an organization reporting abuses in government or business one at a time and the same people stealing enough classified material to run a spy agency.
But sleazy Julian Assange and his spy agency WikiLeaks are trying to pretend they are journalists. He even calls himself “editor-in-chief,” sort of like Mata Hari calling herself H.L. Mencken or the Rosenbergs claiming to be Woodward and Bernstein. Assange even argued in a recent column that “WikiLeaks coined a new type of journalism: scientific journalism.” As a sign just how far that profession has fallen, many in the media are agreeing with the spin.
The Society of Professional Journalists (to which I belong) can’t even decide. SPJ President
Hagit Limor released a press release and blogged making it clear “we can’t even agree on the most basic question: Is WikiLeaks journalism?”
The why is easy. It seems many journalists are more worried about protecting their industry than national security. Limor claims “the question of whether WikiLeaks is journalism matters not a whit to the general public.” She followed that line with the journalistic equivalent of the Internet adage that “information wants to be free.” To Limor, “the world audience just wants information.”
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You beat me too it. I agree.
Assage is not operating out of Washington D.C.
Assage is not operating out of United States.
Assage us not the whole of Wiki leaks, this is a world wide group of people, not one person.
State Department needs to get its act together.
This disgrace is on them ... they are waging a disinformation campaign (like this article) to draw attention away from their own incompetence.
Imagine a journalist who can concoct a correct analogy.
Would wikileaks be guilty of copyright infringement? Clearly they did not own the original content.
What does a good sniper round cost these days?
Doncha just love psyops? Ya gott blur the lines, twist the truth.
We’ve been conditioned for this by the MSM after 9/11, “One man’s terrorist is another man’s hero”.
The professional left, who hate the USA and want us to be on the same level as any other, have been waiting for this a long time.
The people who stole and leaked the information, however, might be tried for treason. They are the real problem, along with those who made it so easy for the information to be taken and released.
You may as well be talking to a brick wall.
It all depends on whose secret is being disclosed.
The mainstream media - including Fox News - is upset that someone else is getting juicy info before they do. That’s why they’re going after WikiLeaks so hard. They see it not as a danger to their country, but their jobs.
THE press IS SO CLUELESS IT WOULDN’T RECOGNIZE JOURNALISM IF IT BIT THEM ON ITS POSTERIOR! JOURNALISM DIED OVER A DECADE AGO. I’M AFRAID WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO BUY IT AT THE CORNER PROPAGANDA STAND AGAIN.
WHO is going after Wiki Leaks? The ones who set Assuage up to be the fall guy? No Private would have access to top government secrets. Satan loves secrecy.
If Assange is a spy for printing material about a country that he is not a citizen of, does not inhabit and has no duty of loyalty to, does that make the next American journalist to interview a North Korean defector a spy as well?
Forget all the ordinary run of the mill stuff.
If the man/organization did us harm, he /they must be eliminated.
That’s what the CIA is for. Covert extermination. Just go get him, leave no trace, tell no one. Blame North Korea or Iran.
FWIW: FDR vs Wilke. Wilke wanted to blame FDR for Pearl Harbor claiming that there was adavnce knowledge - would have destroyed FDR. Wilke kept his mouth shut about the Japanese decripts and lost.
If it comes to that, what prevents NK or Iran from rubbing him out to precipitate whatever Asange’s retaliatory strike is. That he claims will be published in the event of his death.
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