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                                             July   24, 2011
                                             August 28, 2011

           To quote a point D. attributes to              INSIDE_WIKILEAKS
           Herfried M¨nkler of "Der Spiegel"    
           (p.267):
                 
           "Somone who criticizes the fact that
           secrets always remain in the hands of
           a chosen few with power must answer
           the question of whether his publishing
           strategy truly makes them accessible
           to everyone.  Is it not the case, as
           M¨nkler asked, that with the
           cables only the guardians of the
           secrets are being replaced."

           "Confidential information once kept under
           wraps by the US State Department and the
           American military is now in the hands of
           five large media companies and Julian
           Assage.  _They_ decide what is of public
           interest and what is not."


  But but...

     The *leakers* could've sent it somewhere else.
     the leakers (presumably, in most cases) could
     *still* send it somewhere else, were they unhahppy
     with Assange.

     Would it be any better if the leakers had went
     to "Der Spiegel" directly?  Then the information
     is under the control of yet another single party
     of un-elected people, with little oversight and
     often with questionable motives.

     This is a major media guy bitching about an
     upstart upstaging them--

     Remarkable that D. takes it seriously as a
     systematic criticism


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