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WikiLeaks Took Advice From Media Outlets
formfeed writes "According to the AP (through Google News), WikiLeaks isn't just sitting on the recent material so they can release it bit by bit to the press, as many people implied. On the contrary, it's quite the other way around: 'only after considering advice from five news organizations with which it chose to share all of the material' are they releasing it themselves. These newspapers 'have been advising WikiLeaks on which documents to release publicly and what redactions to make to those documents.' AP questions whether WikiLeaks will follow these redactions, but nevertheless seems quite impressed by this 'extraordinary collaboration between some of the world's most respected media outlets and the WikiLeaks organization.'"
I wonder if some of the anti-WikiLeaks fervor evident among US lawmakers will also be brought to bear against the AP and other mainstream media sources. Update: 12/05 17:42 GMT by T : Yes, that's WikiLeaks, rather than (as originally rendered) WikiPedia. HT to reader Mike Hearn.
Interpol issued an arrest warrant for Le Monde, El Pais, The Guardian and Der Spiegel for sexual assault charges in an undecided yet country.
FTFA:
A well-known recluse
Reclusion: you're doing it wrong.
Yeah, wikileaks' information is probably much more reliable, especially on matters concerning African elephants.
When the barn door is swinging open and the pigs have fled don't turn your nose up at offers of getting bacon returned to you simply because accepting it would imply approving people eating your escaped pigs.
Take what you can get and accept that you should have locked the barn door because you're never catching those pigs no matter how much you scream and stamp your feet.
The similarity being that both often don't cite their sources.
However we all know no laws apply on the internet unless they were introduced via bills with "E-" or "cyber" in the name.
overtly using as blackmail
You're an idiot. An ironic idiot, but an idiot nonetheless.
P.S. Overt blackmail leads to soft violence, dark brightness, and then loud silence. It's a rough slippery slope.
You can't take the sky from me...
Yes. Comma. It does. Semicolon. It is the very definition of. Double quote. Free press. Double quote. Period.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
Well that's just brilliant. After two weeks of cable releases from Wikileaks, the rest of the world can look forward with confidence to the US invasion of Wikipedia.