Perspective: Traditional journalists may abandon WikiLeaks’ Assange at their own peril
By Margaret Sullivan Margaret Sullivan Media columnist Email Bio Follow Media columnist April 11 at 4:42 PM For press-freedom advocates, Julian Assange has long been a polarizing figure.
The question hinges on this: Did Assange cross a crucial line by allegedly encouraging the password hack — a line that no legitimate journalist would, or should, cross?The charges, Barry Pollack said, “boil down to encouraging a source to provide him information and taking efforts to protect the identity of that source.” And some journalists were quick to agree.
Those practices, he told me, are not only routine and lawful, “they’re best practices for journalists.” That Assange is such a strange, and to many, unsympathetic character may enter too much into the debate. He’s hard to defend.
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