re: #93 Mark Winter

Free media cannot and have never functioned without relying on sources that tell you confidential, secret and even top secret info. That’s why they are journalists, not PR hacks.

Wikileaks may do less editing but what they do is not outside the law.

“The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Col. Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787

wikileaks is not a newspaper. They might try and call themselves journalists, and pretend now that they have been caught that they are journalists, but they are not.

With a Free Press comes responsibility. Just try and publish copyrighted material just because you disagree with the owners POV.