Thursday, April 8, 2010

How honest was WikiLeaks in its depiction of that Iraq video


This comes from Tim Blair and raises more questions about how wikiLeaks has sought to manage and influence how this video will be viewed and reported, (very successfully you'd have to say), and about how this perhaps betrays a bias on its part:

"Civilians", as they’re here described, tend not to wander around Baghdad equipped with AK-47s and RPGs [rocket propelled grenades]:

Counter-argument from WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange is notably lame.
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/wikiweak/

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