Heaven forbid you Google "the guardian" or "the guardian wikileaks"
it goes:
-> primary sources leak documents to Wikileaks
-> Wikileaks takes the leaked documents, organizes and withholds some that contain materials that could endanger others (
collaborating with other media outlets), and puts them on the web
-> The Gaurdian/NYTimes/Der Spiegel/etc take the leaked documents shared with them by wikileaks, sift through for the most interesting leaks, and put them into newspapers
-> CNN/MSNBC/Fox/Etc take the leaked documents that The Gaurdian/NYtimes/Der Spiegel/etc found most interesting, add more grandstanding, fear mongering, and political spin, and put them on TV
-> Sleezy politicians see an opportunity to fire up their base over things they know absolutely nothing about and say stupid **** like
this, drawing further attention to whats going on
so the question is: Given that wikileaks isn't the original source of the leak, only a disseminator of leaked information, why are they more or less guilty than the other disseminators involved?
and while you're pondering that, go ahead and peruse this: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/wikileaks-editorial/
Then, next time you can have an informed conversation rather than spouting random bullsh*t about events you haven't been keeping up on.
Edited, Dec 7th 2010 10:46pm by shintasama