WikiLeaks and The Sound of Silence

So you went from "I <3 Wikileaks" to slagging it off when you realised the files actually, so far, support Israel's position? Awesome.

The newspapers obviously think that it is in the public's interest to know what's happening day after day behind closed doors.

They do it for the same reason tabloids work : the allure of gossip.

They do it for the same reason tabloids TSR works : the allure of gossip.

Yet the real story here is not what’s revealed but what’s withheld. The
marvel is not what we now know but what is already known that is left
unsaid. And what’s given an interpretive spin by those newspapers
granted priority access.



http://criminalstate.com/2010/12/wikileaks-and-the-sound-of-silence/

The US govt has described it as leaked info so it is probably true.

I'm certain it's true! Else the americans would not have preemptively apologized to world leaders. What I meant is that most of the info seemed like simple tattle. Who needs to know the libyan leader has a busty ukrainian blonde following him around?

Of course, only a few hundred docs out of hundreds of thousands have been release, so yeah I hop the content will improve.

I would also agree that the leaks so far have been pretty unremarkable. I wonder if they've saved the best til last, or released all the 'major' stuff first?

Waiting for Julian's greatest leaks?

They're going to release some major stuff in January about how corrupt the big banks are so there's a lot of extra pressure being put on WikiLeaks and Assange to keep quiet. More cables to be released as well and he says the new info will be big. I don't know why he's telling everyone though, surely it'd mean they try extra hard to shut him up before they're released?

Hes leaking it to newspapers and an attack by the US government on British and American newspapers would lead to a massive backlash.

Yes but WikiLeaks are sorting through all the data first to make sure no-one's going to be endangered by it and are passing it onto newspapers who are also checking through the data before publishing it. I'm guessing the more "sensitive" data which will be potentially more dangerous is being double checked atm whereas all the relatively tame information has been published.

Did't they publish that list of informants though? I believe the Taliban said they were cross-referencing it with their own hit list.

So you went from "I <3 Wikileaks" to slagging it off when you realised the files actually, so far, support Israel's position? Awesome.