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Has WikiLeaks done a favor to the public? – Big Apple speaks out
Published: 01 August, 2010, 11:48
Edited: 02 August, 2010, 08:09
Afghanistan, Nuristan: An Afghan villager looks on as a US soldier from the Provincial Reconstruction team Steel Warriors patrols in the mountains of Nuristan Province. (AFP Photo / Tauseef Mustafa)
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The website WikiLeaks has made it into the media spotlight again by releasing over 90,000 governmental reports on Afghanistan.
RT’s Lori Harfenist, known as the Resident, has asked people in New York whether they think it was really the right thing to do.
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I find it bordering on bizarre that Ms. Harfenist and RT continue to interview mainly men in Times Square?! Are they so unaware that women are , at least, 50% of the population? Unfortunately, we are having to recoup in Afghanistan from having dropped it in 2002 to invade Iraq. But, as Joint Chief of Staff Admiral Mullens notes, "We have the right strategy (in Afghanistan)." We are gradually turning defense of their country over to the Afghan people. We must do what we can to implement and protect the security and rights of Women and girls in the country.
Over an hour ago I posted a message here where I criticise the way most US residents in NY York accepted their government to lie to them, and also criticised the suggestive language the RT reporter used when asking the questions, and I see you have not posted it. Do you have a censorship policy? or is it because I criticised an RT questioner? I've been enjoying your RT reports for years now and I have been recommending to others to watch you on line, but this attitude of censoring what some people may say that you don't like, is unprofessional, and does not help you to learn from your mistakes. - I'll explain what I mean about placing the questions in a a tendentious way. The first question the RT presenter asked was, "Should they have released SUCH A SENSITIVE information?" and from then on she was on a roll. The next SPIN question was "Is there anything the public shouldn't know?" of course the are some things regarding the country's defense information that shouldn't be released, the question is preposterous. You shouldn't release the codes to send out nuclear bombs for example. But whatever these wikileaks had, all names had been removed by the FOUR Media outlets in order to protect persons. When she says"...but out of 90 thousand reports....." suggesting that there's gotta be some sensitive material the people shouldn't know..... she really went overboard because that is challenging the responder to agree with a totally false assumption. If you want to be respected, act respectfully of others. Censorship is a lack of respect. -- "Only the small secrets need to be protected, the big ones are kept secret by public incredulity" Marshall McLuhan
PATHETIC! That was the most pathetic street interview I have ever seen. Americans have no idea about anything! It's no wonder they have been taken over by Oil companies.