Tagged: media.
December 8th, 2010

A bit of a round-up, a bit of a rant and links to a few must-reads

theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/dont-shoot-messenger-for-revealing-… [theaustralian.com.au]
This is a powerful piece of writing by Julian Assange for The Australian today. He places his document-publishing project in the context of his Australian background, an appeal to reason and examples from newspaper history.


bbc.co.uk/news/business-11938320 [bbc.co.uk]
Assange now appears to have displaced Osama Bin Laden as the gravest human threat to America. Well done, Julian. Millions are with you. The US can and will go its totalitarian way, with corps and officials round the world in lockstep, but w/o the will of the people - so for how long?

spiegel.de/international/world/0 [spiegel.de] ,1518,733154,00.html

I will defriend and block anyone who persists in slurring him for the wrong reasons. At least the conservatives are not delusional: his actions do mock their authority and they are right to feel threatened.

But the conspiracy wingnuts completely miss the point of what WikiLeaks does. They have made assumptions from a pattern of clues w/o establishing the whole path. Sometimes they are wildly wrong, but they are always confident.

Assange is deeply respected because he deals only in facts, and only with documents passed to WL, which are rigorously verified before release. He does not solicit and is motivated only by the value he places on transparency.

“Truthers” need to think about it and start reading more reliable sources. The pretext of these slurs against Assange regarding 9/11, eg, is ludicrous. The likes of Gordon Duff and Alex Jones over-reacted to a perfectly legitimate criticism of them by the very honest Assange.
By honest I also mean intellectually honest.
They could learn a lot from him and WikiLeaks about assessing information. Those who work and volunteer for WL look at hard evidence and only at material submitted to them. That is why WL has a credibility that screaming cult leaders and some niche writers can only envy.
I too have a multitude of questions about 9/11 but I don’t expect Assange to conjure the answers out of thin air.


wlcentral.org/node/540 [wlcentral.org]
This protest was organised before Assange was arrested today. It is in conjunction with Intn’l Human Rights Day, which coudn’t be more appropriate. Our PM and politicians, toadying for the US, have threatened Assange with confiscation of his passport should he try and return here and actively looking for ways to charge him with a crime.

∞04:24 am, by kg13 ∩6  |  Comments
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February 10th, 2010

 

“[Cronkite was] the most trusted man in America. But here’s the thing, that title wasn’t bestowed on him by a network.
We weren’t told to believe it by some advertising campaign. It was earned.

It was earned by year after year and decade after decade of painstaking effort; a commitment to fundamental values; his belief that the American people were hungry for the truth, unvarnished and unaccompanied by theater or spectacle.

[Cronkite’s standard was] a little bit harder to find today [with] instant commentary and celebrity gossip and the softer stories that Walter disdained…
’What happened today?’ is replaced with ‘Who won today?’

The public debate cheapens.”

 
Barack Obama (via mattpayton)

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December 17th, 2009
elledark: Reality check .. 1. He hits a little ball about a field. Thats all he does. This is a game. This is not important. This is the absolute definition of utter triviality. Whether he hits a little ball about a field or he doesn’t .. so what ? 2. His particular sexual preferences and activities are personal matters. Whether he’s a faithful husband or a womanizer has got nothing to do with anyone else but him and his family. There is no question of ‘legitimate public interest’. Its smutty, sniggering, intrusive curiosity peddled as ‘news’. If this guy, who hits a little ball about for a living, has sex with somebody .. so what ? With you there, Ellie, as in just about everything except SU Version Fuck, in which you always saw something I couldn’t, can’t and won’t ;=)

elledark:

Reality check ..

1. He hits a little ball about a field. Thats all he does. This is a game. This is not important. This is the absolute definition of utter triviality. Whether he hits a little ball about a field or he doesn’t .. so what ?

2. His particular sexual preferences and activities are personal matters. Whether he’s a faithful husband or a womanizer has got nothing to do with anyone else but him and his family. There is no question of ‘legitimate public interest’. Its smutty, sniggering, intrusive curiosity peddled as ‘news’. If this guy, who hits a little ball about for a living, has sex with somebody .. so what ?

With you there, Ellie, as in just about everything

except SU Version Fuck, in which you always saw something I couldn’t, can’t and won’t

;=)

∞06:54 am, by kg13  Comments
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