Politico's Spin Fail After WaPo Left Out Of WikiLeaks Release

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0710/WikiLeaks_founds_slams_WaPo.html

July 27, 2010
Categories: Washington Post
WikiLeaks founder slams WaPo

The Washington Post was not on the shortlist to receive the leaked Afghanistan war documents from Wikileaks because of its reporting on the organization, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told Forbes. Assange also called some of the Post’s decisions to leave out information from its “Top Secret America” series “craven.”

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Forbes: Was the Post on your shortlist of media outlets to receive those 91,000 documents in advance?

Assange: No, the Post was not on our shortlist. The Post recently did an article on WikiLeaks which was generally accurate but with one exception--a line in the story which stated that WikiLeaks had been compared to "Baghdad Bob." That's a reference to Saddam Hussein's former information minister, who was a lying propagandist. I'd never heard this allegation before. So I looked for a reference to us being compared to Baghdad Bob and after 20 minutes of searching I found one right wing blogger who had mentioned that phrase on one occasion. That's not quality journalism.

But a search through the Post archives reveals no such story.

FROM COMMENTS SECTION:

You might want to correct your pst. Here's the link to the WaPo article by Joby Warrick with the Baghdad Bob reference. Next time use The Google. The Post's archives suck. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/19/AR2010051905333_2.html?hpid=topnews⊂=AR It starts on pg 2 where the quote is taken from.

Posted By: dijamo | July 28, 2010 at 06:36 AM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/19/AR2010051905333_pf.html ... Edited and unedited versions of the video have been viewed nearly 8 million times, provoking shock but also condemnation. Some critics blasted WikiLeaks as an incarnation of "Baghdad Bob," the nickname of the former Iraqi information minister under Saddam Hussein. ,,,

Posted By: Rahul Mahajan | July 29, 2010 at 09:26 PM

Our free press hard at work again...to completely screw up the most important part of the story. WAY TO GO TEAM, you just proved Julian's point!

Posted By: John Smith | July 29, 2010 at 11:09 PM