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In reply to the discussion: Assange urges leak of US drone rules [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)He collects news.
We want to know the news. We do not want to be kept in darkness. We do not want to be ignorant. At least I don't although the Wikileaks releases in the Guardian, etc. of US cables was too much for me to read. Probably too much for almost anyone to read. I wonder how many reporters at the Guardian they hired to go through it.
But since our government is so excessively secretive, I appreciate seeing a sample of what passes as "secrets" for our government. I thought a lot of it was way overrated -- maybe even most of it.
Assange was no different from a New York Times reporter who has lunch with a D.C. insider, hears something she didn't previously know and then goes back to the office and makes sure it gets into print. That is legitimate. That is what news reporters are supposed to do. They are not supposed to censor the news so as to spare the government from embarrassment. That is not their job.