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…]
February 4, 2011
Israel Shamir’s recent article on CounterPunch, Redacting Corruption: The Guardian’s Political Censorship of Wikileaks, follows on from his previous piece, Paradigm in Belarus: The Minsk Election in a Wikileaks Mirror, in levelling some serious allegations against The Guardian newspaper and its journalistic practices. The earlier piece was an odd amalgam of politically questionable apologism for… [Read more…]
February 4, 2011
Observations about the cables referred to in Israel’s Shamir’s recent CounterPunch article, Redacting Corruption: The Guardian’s Political Censorship of Wikileaks raised some controversies about Shamir’s legitimacy as a publisher of Wikileaks’ cables. Shamir criticized The Guardian for redacting cables for political reasons, and published unredacted versions of those cables to support his case. The unredacted… [Read more…]
July 20, 2011
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