From McClatchy Newspapers: Not so long ago, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could count on American journalists to support his campaign to publish secret documents that banks and governments didn’t want the world to see. But just three years after a major court confrontation that saw many of America’s most important journalism organizations file briefs on WikiLeaks’ behalf, much of the US journalistic community has shunned Assange — even as reporters write scores, if not hundreds, of stories based on WikiLeaks’ trove of leaked State Department cables.
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American Journalists Shun Wikileaks Founder
Part 1 (of 4): Julian Assange Wikileaks founder Press Conference, Geneva, Switzerland 11/04/2010
Wikileaks founder and spokesman Julian Assange reveals important information at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland. This content has been published by notepad publishing. notepad invites you to visit our main sites now: www.notepad.ch NEWS http TV Part 1: www.youtube.com Part 2: www.youtube.com Part 3: www.youtube.com Part 4: www.youtube.com The full transcript of this Press Conference can be read here: notepad.ch Julian Assange Wikileaks founder Winner of the 2009 Amnesty International Media Award Press Conference Geneva Press Club, Geneva November 4th 2010 11:30 AM ‘We’ve been both expert witness and observer to human rights abuses by the United States government in various areas and a victim of some those abuses ourselves. It should not be the case that a media organisation with a track record now of 4 years exposing Human Rights abuses and the Winner of the 2009 Amnesty International Award for human rights and exposing extra juridical assassinations in Kenya should itself be in a position where it feels threatened because it has been threatened. Some of the information that I will be speaking about today comes from the Pentagon or from internal records of the Pentagon, which have been given to us – we presume – by US military whistleblowers. Geoff Morrell, spokesman of the Pentagon, demanded on August 12 and on noumerous other occations that this organisation destroy it’s previous publications relating to the Pentagon, destroy it’s upcoming publications …