Editors and reporters at the New York Times, U.K.’s Guardian and Der Spiegel of Germany are poring over hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. documents expected to be released as early as Friday, Bloomberg reported today.
“The Pentagon warned the U.S. Senate and House Armed Services Committees that the website WikiLeaks.org ‘ntends to release several hundred thousand’ classified U.S. State Department cables as soon as Nov. 26.
The documents ‘touch on an enormous range of very sensitive foreign policy issues,’ Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs Elizabeth King wrote yesterday in an e-mail to the defense panels.
‘We anticipate that the release could negatively impact U.S. foreign relations, ‘ she wrote, telling committee staff members that ‘we will brief you once we have a better understanding of what documents the WikiLeaks publication contains.'”
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Maybe its time we allowed Wikileaks to reveal all the documents it has in hand. In the end when the dust settles it will have little or no lasting impact on relations between governments but will unfortunately seriously affect future government-media relations. Truth in media is suspect because there is always someone writing the report and/or a person/organization behind the report to influence the angle of the subject.
Truth and media are on two different planets.
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