The awesome Zip over at Weasel Zippers makes an awesome point.
Managing editor of Time Magazine Richard Stengel had the following to say this weekend about their decision to publish the admittedly U.S. damaging leaked documents from Wikileaks: “You know, our job is to publish and be damned…But our job is not to protect the U.S.”
Zip nails him on this point saying “So if they were given a list of all late-term abortion doctors they’d “publish them and be damned?”
Never in a million years.
Always remember that our media hates the U.S. , the same media that refused to publish the leaked climategate docs on the pretense that they were illegally obtained did not hesitate one second to publish the illegally obtained wikileaks docs.
In the 1991 movie the Rocketeer (remember that one), the criminal guy makes the decision to side with the G-men against the Nazis. When the G-men look surprised, the criminal says “I may not make an honest buck, but I’m 100% American…”
Only in the movies I guess.
December 6, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Fact: Secrets are hard to keep. Cork out of the bottle. post-it-all 1-to:world. Problem ? Just as much the printed book once was. Main question: what’s next: E-Power to the people. Maybe it is good, because together we can control what no government can (ie. the global society we need to survive) Technology is a thread, it always was.. it always was unstoppable
December 6, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Good point on the climiategate… so true.
December 6, 2010 at 5:43 pm
That mobster story is true: Lucky Luciano.
December 6, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Anon 12:43–I was going to cite Luciano too. I was told he was in prison when the Allies were going in through Sicily. The G-men reached out to him and he smoothed the path nortward in Italy.
I'm told Meyer Lansky was helpful in reducing the number of Nazi spies on the docks as well.
December 7, 2010 at 6:43 am
Newspapers like Time magazine exist to sell copies. They do not care about anything but that.