The Wall Street Journal – a News Corporation outlet – is again engaging in aggressive damage control for the Murdoch empire by attacking Wikileaks. WL Central addresses the mendacity. It appears that the Wall Street Journal – which publishes from News Corp’s Celanese Building headquarters in New York city – is suing for the title… [Read more…]
July 18, 2011
In what is now a regular occurrence, a large media outlet published on Monday a calculated perception-management article on a figure centrally involved in the ongoing Wikileaks story. WL Central addresses the mendacity. New York Magazine‘s Steve Fishman profile on Bradley Manning was hyped for several months, and, as happened with Vanity Fair’s much anticipated… [Read more…]
July 18, 2011
A recent article by Steve Fishman in New York Magazine trots out more salacious gossip about Bradley Manning’s sexuality, in what is now a sustained media campaign to discredit the military whistleblower. On foot of the Fishman article, WL Central examines the more insidious aspects of this trend. Bradley Manning’s sexuality is irrelevant. For anyone… [Read more…]
January 30, 2011
Bill Keller, the New York Times’ executive editor, published an enormous article on the 26th of January about the New York Times’ dealings with Wikileaks. The article develops further the running story of Wikileaks’ relationship with its media partners, the subject of a Vanity Fair piece earlier in the month. Much has been made of… [Read more…]
July 20, 2011
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