The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange - David Samuels - International - The Atlantic: "But the truly scandalous and shocking response to the Wikileaks documents has been that of other journalists, who make the Obama Administration sound like the ACLU. In a recent article in The New Yorker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Steve Coll sniffed that 'the archives that WikiLeaks has published are much less significant than the Pentagon Papers were in their day' while depicting Assange as a 'self-aggrandizing control-freak' whose website 'lacks an ethical culture that is consonant with the ideals of free media.' Channeling Richard Nixon, Coll labeled Wikileaks' activities - formerly known as journalism - by his newly preferred terms of 'vandalism' and 'First Amendment-inspired subversion.'"
Steve Coll is a pod.
"'The Times' normally mild-mannered David Brooks asserted in his column this week that 'Assange seems to be an old-fashioned anarchist' and worried that Wikileaks will 'damage the global conversation.'"
Sunday, December 05, 2010
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