1. It takes “the world’s first stateless news organization” http://jr.ly/5jnk to show our news organizations how statist they are.
2. The sources are voting with their leaks. That they go to Wikileaks rather than the newspapers says something about the papers.
3. The watchdog press died. More viable today is a distributed “eye on power” that includes the old press as one component part.
4. The state has a monopoly on the legal use of force. But it can have no monopoly on the legitimate use of digital “force."
5. Everything a journalist learns that he cannot tell the public alienates him from that public. Wikileaks tries to minimize this.
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