13-01-2011, 06:46 PM
Ed Jewett Wrote:The Guardian's Political Censorship of Wikileaks
January 12th, 2011 Via: Counterpunch:
The Guardian has deliberately excised portions of published cables to hide evidence of corruption.
Ed - many thanks for posting this.
The Counterpunch piece is devastating for The Guardian and for Wikileaks.
There is absolutely no journalistic or legal justification for censoring those cables.
The defence of the newspaper if sued would be that they were simply printing diplomatic cables which contained claims of corruption by big business and named politicians. However, The Guardian is not endorsing anything said in any of the cables - it is simply reporting and publishing their content.
This is blatant censorship to protect elite corruption, and undermines the credibility of the entire Wikileaks project.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war