re: #284 harlequinade

I’m not sure about that.

Media doesn’t have to mean Journalism. (Said not as a lawyer, or a reporter)
Is HuffPo just a website or a member of the media? Who decides?

I’m sure there’s a legal definition of journalism. Assange isn’t exposing some sort of illegal government activity for the public good. He’s just publishing mass amounts of random stolen documents. I’m not sure if there’s a legal difference between publishing them on the web or discreetly passing them on to a foreign government. It’s data mining from stolen government documents and you just can’t do that.