Preview of CNN's WikiLeaks Special Coming This Sunday: 'Mission' Implausible

Greg Mitchell
June 10, 2011


CNN’s ballyhooed WikiWars: The Mission of Julian Assange special airing this Sunday evening is an odd amalgam, blending quick cuts, pounding music, and a casually dressed host (at left below) with an attempt at a serious overview of WikiLeaks. Yet, like the recent PBS Frontline probe, it is fatally unbalanced.

This is a list of Assange / WikiLeaks critics interviewed (and quoted more than once): David Leigh, Nick Davies, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Adrian Lamo, Brigadier Gen. Mark T. Kimmitt (Ret.). Here is a list of Assange / WikiLeaks supporters interviewed: one unnamed and masked allegedly activist from Anonymous. Other critics who get face time: Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, even Newt Gingrich.

Like the PBS Frontline producers, the CNN team appears to believe that quoting Assange alone balances a brigade of critics. This, of course, is silly. Many viewers, naturally, take anything the subject of criticism says with huge grains of salt especially when no one else rises to his or her defense (besides figures in masks).

In addition, the hour-long film focuses on WikiLeaks revelations regarding Iraq and Afghanistan – with plenty of time for repudiations – with scant mention of Cablegate, which swung open more than six months ago.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/161345/preview-cnns-wikileaks-special-coming-sunday-mission-implausible

...and them them send electrons down empty wires to blind oblivion!

But I haven't watch corporate nuz casts for years and strangely, it hasn't kept me from being on top of most current stories. lol

I'm a groupie. First read him when he was the only guy in the corporate media who bothered to talk about Ohio and how everyone was ignoring it. :)