Whom do The New York Times and The Guardian work for?

[Jefferson23]

Bill Keller, an editor with The New York Times, has recently published an article titled "Dealing With Assange and the WikiLeaks Secrets." In the article, the author wrote how the newspaper was working with secret cables. From what the article says, it seems that Russia appears to be a real stronghold of freedom of speech.

Keller wrote: "Because of the range of the material and the very nature of diplomacy, the embassy cables were bound to be more explosive than the War Logs. Dean Baquet, our Washington bureau chief, gave the White House an early warning on Nov. 19. The following Tuesday, two days before Thanksgiving, Baquet and two colleagues were invited to a windowless room at the State Department, where they encountered an unsmiling crowd. Representatives from the White House, the State Department, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the C.I.A., the Defense Intelligence Agency, the F.B.I. and the Pentagon gathered around a conference table. Others, who never identified themselves, lined the walls. A solitary note-taker tapped away on a computer."

SNIP* Keller wrote that in all of his publications he was guided by his patriotic feelings. He was printing only the things that were good for America. If an editor of a Russian newspaper said that he or she was discussing publications with unsmiling people on Lubyanka or Smolenka, the liberal community of Moscow would not be thrilled with such a story.

SNIP* It is hard to overestimate the role of Luke Harding, the under-expelled British journalist, a specialist for the informational war against Russia. It was Harding, who was responsible for editing the Russian WikiLeaks dossier for The Guardian. It was him who gave catchy headlines (e.g. - "Russia is a Mafia State"). "The heavily edited cables about the outlooks on life of a well-known political activist (MOSCOW 002632) was turned into a material about Gunvor company and the "Kremlin corruption,"" Vitaly Leibin said. It was Harding, who covered up corrupt officials from Western companies and their partners in Kazakhstan.

in full: http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/22-02-2011/116978-new_york_times_guardian-0/

[leveymg]

1. Worth reading to understand the Russian take on the events discussed in the cables, and

how the Russians view the west as utter hypocrites when it comes to mouthing support for democracy in third countries when facts threaten to unmask strategic deceptions that deceive no one except the average American.

Fascinating stuff - and, it even seems quite candid and genuine, without too much of the usual poisoned polemic.