This would be funny if it weren’t so tragic. Here’s Newsweek explaining why so few major American reporters are standing up for Wikileaks. This supposed obsession with “balance” – which usually means little more than siding with the powerful – is spurious and regarded as such across the world (see here): So why are American…
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Hello media, there aren’t too equal sides under occupation
Calling on bravery in Middle East reporting. Few takers? Keen to appease the Zionist lobby? Worried about a lack of balance against Israeli crimes? Best work for the BBC, then. Jonathan Cook investigates.
The Tzvangirai, Mugabe, MSM and Wikileaks dance
The deluge of Wikileaks cables bring moral considerations. What is released? Is anybody at risk? Who takes responsibility? This discussion at WLCentral examines the issues in Zimbabwe and Morgan Tzvangirai’s meetings with US embassy officials. He is potentially facing treason charges. Where does Wikileaks fit into all this? If this is actually the method by…
Judy Miller talks about integrity over Wikileaks but should look in the mirror
Former New York Times “journalist” Judy Miller – who pushed countless bogus reports over Iraq’s non-existent WMDs – tells Fox News (where else?) that Julian Assange is a “bad journalist” because he didn’t verify his sources. You can’t make this stuff up:
The global media’s sad obsession with the US
What were the biggest news stories of 2010 across 160 countries and one billion items?
Somebody in Spain understands why Wikileaks is so damn important
Here’s an inspiring reason why the mainstream media can, if it wants to, matter. Spain’s El Pais editor, Javier Moreno, on why his paper participated in Wikileaks cablegate: Cynics will argue that none of what we have learned from WikiLeaks differs from the usual way in which high-level international politics is conducted, and that without…
If You Love This Planet (with Dr Helen Caldicott) on Wikileaks
The myriad of issues surroundings Wikileaks continues. I was interviewed in late December by Dr Helen Caldicott on her globally syndicated radio program If You Love This Planet to discuss the long-term ramifications of this new form of journalism. My previous appearance on the program from 2009 is here.
A Wikileaks Christmas
Anything to keep the case in the public eye? Thank you, Newsweek, for this delightful photo gallery: The holidays are a time of rest and relaxation for everyone, even enigmatic, internationally wanted former fugitives under house arrest. In an exclusive photo gallery, NEWSWEEK peeks into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange‘s Christmas revelry as he awaits a…
Who is best to keep unnecessary secrets now?
The job of real journalists and citizens is to challenge government spin and lies and not feel sorry for a super-power being less able to get its way: Before the infamous leak, the 250,000 State Department cables acquired by anti-secrecy activists resided in a database so obscure that few diplomats had heard of it. It…
Israel, the US and corporate press selling Iranian “threat” for decades
It must be resisted now as much as ever.