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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.
No, slashdot is pro-apple. You'll be virulently downmodded if you criticize the great one (Jobs).
If you get downmodded for criticizing Apple on /. then you're doing it wrong. I've both seen and written numerous "+5" posts with just such critique.
If anything, I'd say that /. is strongly divided on that issue. No surprise there - Apple gets some points for 1) making shiny things that work, 2) OS X being a Unix, and 3) not being Microsoft. They do get a lot of flak due to their recent hostility towards power users, developers, modders etc with iOS lockdown. Depending on how strong people feel on that, they end up on one side or the other.
What more - imagine that! - quite a few can like some Apple products and policies (e.g. OS X / Unix), and dislike others (e.g. iOS / walled garden).