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Wired's Refusal To Release Or Comment On The Manning Chat Logs (Salon.com)
Tuesday night, Wired posted a two-part response to Glenn Greenwald's criticisms of its conduct in reporting on the arrest of PFC Bradley Manning and the key role played in that arrest by Adrian Lamo. Greenwald wrote about this topic twice -- first back in June and then again Sunday. The first part of Wired's response was from Wired.com editor-in-chief Evan Hansen, and the second is from senior editor Kevin Poulsen. Both predictably hurl all sorts of invective at Greenwald as a means of distracting attention from the central issue, the only issue that matters: their refusal to release or even comment on what is the central evidence in what is easily one of the most consequential political stories of this year, at least. WSJ: The Pentagon Papers revelations dealt with a discrete topic, the ever-increasing level of duplicity of our leaders over a score of years in increasing the nation's involvement in Vietnam while denying it. It revealed official wrongdoing or, at the least, a pervasive lack of candor by the government to its people. WikiLeaks is different. It revels in the revelation of "secrets" simply because they are secret. It assaults the very notion of diplomacy that is not presented live on C-SPAN. It has sometimes served the public by its revelations, but it also offers, at considerable potential price, a vast amount of material that discloses no abuses of power at all.
The Sun Admits Publishing False Story (The Guardian / Greenslade Blog)
The Sun owned up to what Roy Greenslade guesses we in the journalism trade realized the moment we saw it -- its splash about the pre-Christmas live-episode Coronation Street being targeted by al-Qaeda was false. On Dec. 9, it carried a front-page story (which still appears on its Web site, incidentally) claiming that "cops" were "throwing a ring of steel" around the studios in Manchester after being "tipped off" that the show "could be hit by a terror strike." It had that familiar Daily Star-ish ring of complete nonsense, and so it turns out, as Tuesday's page-two "correction" admits: "Further to our article about increased security at Coronation Street's studios for their live 50th anniversary episode…we would like to make clear that while cast and crew were subject to full body searches, there was no specific threat from al-Qaeda as we reported. We apologize for the misunderstanding and are happy to set the record straight."
Guns & Ammo Targets New Mobile Revenue Model (minOnline)
When it comes to mobilizing their brands, magazines have had their hands full in recent years just getting editorial onto phones and tablets. Few publishers have even ventured into one of the most lucrative and popular mobile genres -- gaming. And so, Guns & Ammo's iPhone/iPad Point of Impact game is exceptional on a number of counts.
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