Wikileaks Journalism

Let's get something straight: Julian Assange is a journalist. You can argue he is not practicing journalism the way you think it should be practiced, but he's a journalist nonetheless. And for many of us he's a hero.

Last night, Julian Assange's WikiLeaks posted a list of sites outside of the US that the State Department had identified as key to public safety. The...

Julian Assange has certainly broken his share of hard news, but by publishing these cables as they were obtained, he proved himself a fanatic incapable of distinguishing between newsworthy content and details that endanger people working to make the world safer.