Given 400,000 leaked documents about the Iraq war, on Saturday (October 23, 2010) the NY Times decided to lead with a hit piece against Julian Assange, Wiki Leaks founder:
NY Times Homepage, Saturday October 23, 2010
As the nature of this blog suggest, I’m a skeptic when it comes to the media and their motives, but I admit even I was surprised at how low the Times stooped here.
Recommend Reading
I was glad to see Glenn Greenwald address the same observation, in his Sunday post, with his usual depth and insight. Glenn compares the NY Times actions to those of Nixon’s “plumbers” (Egil Krogh and David Young) who worked to smear and discredit Daniel Ellsberg because Ellsberg had leaked the Pentagon Papers. I recommend Glenn’s post, which you can find here:
The Nixonian henchmen of today: at the NYT
