The Telegraph's Will Heaven has reacted angrily to The Guardian getting the scoop on Wikileaks' war logs:
"Wikileaks is a website with no political agenda, its founder Julian Assange would have you believe. So I'm puzzled by today’s "Afghanistan war log" story. It doesn’t strike me – or many of my colleagues – as politically neutral to feed such sensitive information to three Left-leaning newspapers: namely The Guardian, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel."
To be fair, Heaven may well have a point but it would be easy for readers to assume his comments owe more to professional sour grapes than genuine concern about Wikileaks' political neutrality.
Just a coincidence that those newspapers probably have the best reputations in their countries for doing in-depth, non-partisan investigations then?
Posted by: Jim | Jul 26, 2010 at 21:50