Keller did get his dander up after Assange said that watching the American news media cover international events is like watching a goldfish bowl where readers pay little attention to outside perspectives.
Keller seemed to take that as a slight against the prestigious New York Times overseas correspondents. “I have to object to the idea that we’re not interested in what happens outside the U.S.,” he said. “We have 40 correspondents and stringers overseas, and we have four people who have been killed covering the wars.”
Assange said he meant no disrespect to the work of Times correspondents living or dead. But he did get the last word on that topic.
“I say that 40 people covering the entire world in the New York Times, which is the opinion leader of the United States, is a state of desperation,” he said.
[blockquote] Unusually for a competitive newspaper, the NYT pressed for Wikileaks to publish the documents before it did, in order to preserve the appearance that the newspaper was keeping Assange at arm’s length as a source of information no different than any other. The reason for this, Assange alleged, was that the Times wished to avoid looking like it was involved in a conspiracy to unveil secret information and possibly violate the Espionage Act.[/blockquote] Just one more piece of evidence regarding the true nature of journalism. Perhaps we should title this “How to obey the letter of the law while violating the spirit of the law.”
carl
I haven’t read the whole article, but based on this extract, it is nice to see the NYT’s duplicitous duplicity being exposed. Assange on the other hand, whatever you think of him, has probably nothing left to hide.