re: #321 WindUpBird

I think this world would be a lot better if we had some more dudes who leaked a bit more of the fraud, malfeasance and all-around psychotic evil of our financial institutions a few years before it all threatened to suck our country through a black hole

This may be the crux of the problem. It may be that big media and their parent corporations are too deeply connected to crooked banks and others to risk exposing them. This same reluctance may also come into play when foreign investors are involved. Would Fox News, partly owned by a Saudi prince, have revealed secret documents implicating Saudis in AQ funding, or calling for an attack on Iran? NBC will report on criticism of parent company GE’s defense contracting, but would they take the next step and actually reveal company secrets to expose it? Of course they wouldn’t.

I don’t like or support Assange at all. He is a propagandist with an agenda, and potentially a very dangerous one. At the same time though, he has been a success in his own terms because he recognized a need, an un-met demand, and, in age-old business fashion, he seized the opportunity.