Ben Adler/Newsweek proves why we need Wikileaks.

EFerrari

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Tue Jan-04-11 05:12 PM
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Ben Adler/Newsweek proves why we need Wikileaks.

Edited on Tue Jan-04-11 05:24 PM by EFerrari

Adler: Why Journalists Aren’t Standing Up for WikiLeaks

Three reasons that efforts to prosecute Julian Assange aren’t drawing more of an outcry about the First Amendment.

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/04/why-journalists-aren-t-defending-julian-assange.html

Oh, really?

Reporters Without Borders:
http://en.rsf.org/reporters-without-borders-to-host-20-12-2010,39084.html

Committee to Protect Journalists:
http://www.cpj.org/2010/12/cpj-urges-us-not-to-prosecute-assange.php

International Federation of Journalists:
http://wlcentral.org/node/502

MEAA (Austrialian union)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/23/3099859.htm

John Pilger:
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/12/08/3087656.htm

Michael Moore:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/why-im-posting-bail-money

FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting):
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/592/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5343

DVJ (German Papers):
http://www.djv.de/SingleNews.20+M5dcd7f31e2d.0.html

WL Central roundup (1 of 13 parts) "Cablegate: Journalists in support of Wikileaks"
http://wlcentral.org/node/473

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Did you see how Adler did that? Maybe he's talking about some other "journalists"?

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baldguy

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Tue Jan-04-11 05:18 PM
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1. He says "journalists"

But what he means is "millionaire corporate spokes-models"

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villager

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Tue Jan-04-11 05:22 PM
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2. +1

n/t

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EFerrari

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Tue Jan-04-11 05:37 PM
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4. So that's what the John Robert Powers agency has been up to.

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valerief

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Tue Jan-04-11 06:27 PM
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6. Coiffed mouths. That's all they are. nt

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Tue Jan-04-11 05:26 PM
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3. Adler must be talking about the middle class journos making $250,000 per.

Those journalists may be hurting, should We the People get the true picture about WikiLeaks.

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EFerrari

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Tue Jan-04-11 05:47 PM
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5. Inconceivable!

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EFerrari

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Tue Jan-04-11 08:01 PM
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7. .

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