WikiLeaks vs New York Times: US Press "In a Bubble"?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/04/09/WikiLeaks_The_Fallout

WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange and New York Times executive editor Bill Keller debate Assange's remark that the United States press cares little about events that happen outside its borders. "The U.S. press is interested in the United States, it is not interested in what happens outside the United States," says Assange. "It is a goldfish bowl of constant self-referral and self-reporting."

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Panel: WikiLeaks: The Fallout. Featuring Julian Assange, Lowell Bergman, Nick Davies, Mark Feldstein, Bill Keller, David McCraw, Michael Rochford, Gabriel Schoenfeld, Jack Shafer, and Holger Stark. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, on April 8, 2011.

The 3-day Logan Symposium now in its 5th year, serves a number of key constituencies. Culling together a group of dedicated investigative reporters, academics, philanthropists, media experts and graduate students, the invite only event is an industry must. Once a humble commitment to host an annual lecture in the name of its benefactors, the Logan Symposium quickly rose in popularity as "one of the most influential events of its kind," according to the Seattle Times. Covered and attended by a veritable 'who's who' in investigative reporting, the conference dissects controversial topics in the field, hosts internationally renowned panelists, and examines key factors of change in investigative reporting.

Julian Assange is an Australian journalist, programmer and Internet activist, best known for his involvement with Wikileaks, a whistleblower website.

Bill Keller is Executive Editor of The New York Times, a position he has held since July of 2003. Keller became Op-Ed columnist and senior writer for The New York Times Magazine as well as other areas of the newspaper in September 2001. Previously, he served as managing editor from 1997 to September 2001 after having been the newspaper's foreign editor from June 1995 to 1997. He was the chief of The Times bureau in Johannesburg from April 1992 until May 1995.

Before that, he had been a Times correspondent in Moscow from December 1986 to October 1991, the last three years as the newspaper's bureau chief. He won a Pulitzer Prize in March 1989 for his coverage of the Soviet Union.

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[LibertyDownUnder]

The NY Times is the opinion leader in teh US? Horse shit.

[RICE510]

Bill Keller = Cheap, transparent sophistry. I nominate him for douchebag of the Universe award

[eclecticfire73]

I like affected head movements at 2.39 from Keller & Davies. It really shows genuine: "Ive- never- heard this- before, Im- even- having- trouble -hearing it, but -now- that I've heard- it and -have- done- a good-display -of -having -never heard it until- this-point, I -must- have to -disgree -with- what- Assange- has -said- whole heartedly.."

lol. im convinced

Pity they cant get rid of the jaded, defeated faces that give the overall picture that their elaborate quest to jail someone failed

[MoonAharshMistress]

When the next time you said you've seen it all ahead to the film "Brazil"...When a gangsters word appears to carry more weight than reality....When youre talking about doing deals with people who kill politicians, you better make sure that it is not you- rather than me- that is the dreamer~ that history is on YOUR side in your activities of "noble patriotic duty" as you seem to have constituted yourselves.

[MoonAharshMistress]

a genuine whistleblower behind bars.

All the Guardian's pointed filming naked pictures of people in the bathroom and art galleries with commisioned prophetic art pieces demanding someone's incarceration without trial, and the wasted opportunity of the only asset they ever had ~a silly little drug-addicted girl who dreamed of going into PR but couldnt keep a lid on her contempt or card greetings enough for five minutes to get the ball rolling as a stalking horse~, all came to nought.

[MoonAharshMistress]

its the barest minimum to get away with, isnt it? Quite often they retrodate the mirroring of someone else's speeches and sentiments just days or even hours prior to the real time the real author said it. They think the closer they pip someone to the post, the more likely the lawyers can "prove" they said it first. They also pulling grave faces as if to show to the Democrat administration they really care about such matter- like the whole purpose of A S ecret Service ANGE L was not to put

[MoonAharshMistress]

@ 2.30 .. Ill bet this vid was produced AFTER President Obama's speech at the Correspondent's Dinner (30th april: see Obama's comments re genuine whistleblowers bravery..but he forgot to mention journalists trying their damndest to psychologically torture and incarcerate other journalists`).. like all their video skits you cant really prove when they were produced- cos they retrodate them- but given it strongly resembles comments obama made- plus theyve pushed it back only the day before- well,

[eclecticfire73]

@ .37 and still doing that affected croaky voice routine, i see. Cos his team told him it sounds sexy.. what a loser. A complete mentally ill person- whose multilple personality disorder the PR outfit well made use of.

[eclecticfire73]

@MoonAharshMistress ..pretending there's squabbles WITHIN their team, The Guardian..and then pretending there's squables within their triad of partners.. boring PR men that seem to have nothing better to do than PR it for their traffiking sponsors = Born Actors.

[MoonAharshMistress]

why do they do these fake disagreements when theyre a team? Who is it supposed to fool? Hilary Clinton has already said the wikileaks is a 'fake debate' & thats coming from the head of the State department.

I think its time to let go and accept Assange is a fail in his objective, dont you?