UPDATE: Remember when I had questions about vessel size and Coast Guard containment efforts?

Update 2:  It appears NPR corrected the record. It was a barge, not a tugboat. Not sure who else has corrected themselves. Well, there was a reason for my questions, and while at the time it seemed to have been less important with relation to media than I thought, it WAS important with regard to [...]

July 27, 2010
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Why did Wikileaks ‘leak’ data to press first?

So asked and answered Jay Rosen. “Ask yourself: Why didn’t Wikileaks just publish the Afghanistan war logs and let journalists ‘round the world have at them? Why hand them over to The New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel first? Because as Julien Assange, founder of Wikileaks, explained last October, if a big story [...]

July 27, 2010
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