much ado about nothing: riding a trojan horse

The Wikileaks story is decidedly not what the main$tream makes it out to be.

Glenn Greenwald:

...Anyone listening to most media accounts would believe that WikiLeaks has indiscriminately published all 250,000 of the diplomatic cables it possesses, and Gitlin -- in the course of denouncing Julian Assange -- bolsters this falsehood: "Wikileaks’s huge data dump, including the names of agents and recent diplomatic cables, is indiscriminate" and Assange is "fighting for a world of total transparency."

The reality is the exact opposite -- literally -- of what Gitlin told TNR readers. WikiLeaks has posted to its website only 960 of the 251,297 diplomatic cables it has. Almost every one of these cables was first published by one of its newspaper partners which are disclosing them (The Guardian, the NYT, El Pais, Le Monde, Der Speigel, etc.). Moreover, the cables posted by WikiLeaks were not only first published by these newspapers, but contain the redactions applied by those papers to protect innocent people and otherwise minimize harm...

But damn, it's a great trojan horse to bring about the death of net neutrality and greater police state control of information.

In fact, if Joe Lieberman has his way, it may result in charges against some news outlets for reporting Wikileaks reports of information they'd released prior to to Wikileaks release of the same information.