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Just noticed one of the top stories on CNN is about WikiLeaks. It’s a rather odd article, begging the question of why the mainstream media began covering wikileaks all of the sudden. Then something at the end reveals a possible motive.

From the CNN article:

Ari Schwartz, vice president and chief executive officer of the Center for Democracy and Technology, said it’s unclear what WikiLeaks’ lasting impact will be. If the site publishes state secrets without cause, a public backlash could quickly kill the following the site is trying to build.

“If they’re publishing just to publish … the public reaction against that information is going to be so negative,” he said.

Schwartz said his group has benefited from WikiLeaks, which was able to obtain some congressional public records his organization could not.

“They are effective in terms of getting to documents that people have trouble accessing in other ways,” he said.

Ellsberg , the former U.S. Department of Defense official who leaked the Pentagon Papers in the ’70s and who now donates to WikiLeaks, said the site has the potential to change the way the world’s governments operate.

He says the site will make leaders more accountable to the public.

The recently released military videos are “a very small door, so far, into the huge library of broadly withheld information,” he said.

He called Assange a hero for trying to shed light on those hidden catalogues.

[Please read the full article for much more information.]

This is a puff piece serving a couple of purposes. The text in bold struck me. It injects beliefs into unsuspecting minds about an unfamiliar topic. Continuing on, it provides altering viewpoints both in an effort to control the dissent in a method of divide-and-conquer. No matter the outcome of these two points, they can still judge public opinion and gain insight into their next move.

Incremental-ism is a subtle science requiring extreme peripheral vision and utter control over the rate of advance.

UPDATED to add:

[ed's note: i was truly surprised to see cnn link directly to leaked classified documents on wikileaks; any interpretations?]

Also note that the piece that was posted here earlier, about the climategate scandal being ‘cleared,’ was mentioned in the article as exemplifying wikileaks to post false information. A) question validity of WL in MSM, B) pimp the MSM cover-up and brush-off of climategate.

Damn, they are good at what they do.

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