A Renegade Site, Now Working With The News Media -- New York Times
THE four stages of a political movement, as Gandhi told it, were: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
For the whistle-blower Web site WikiLeaks, the release last week of secret field reports on the war in Afghanistan that it obtained from American military sources certainly looked like a victory. Not only did The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel devote hundreds of hours of reporters’ and editors’ time to analyzing and confirming the information in the documents, the three agreed to coordinate publication for last Monday, ensuring there would be blanket news media coverage on at least two continents.
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More News On The Media's New Relationship With Wikileaks
Taliban is part of will of Afghan people – WikiLeaks chief -- RT
Julian Assange, monk of the online age who thrives on intellectual battle -- The Guardian
WikiLeaks founder brings sexy back to whistle-blowing -- Globe And Mail
What Wikileaks is really telling us -- The Independent
WikiLeaks: heroes or villains? -- Examiner
My Comment: The media's open fawning of this man and the harm he is doing to many of our Afghan allies and informers who are fighting with the Taliban everyday makes me sick.