griffjon’s Comments

• Apr 6th, 2010 @ 10:49am

  Re: Why newspapers do not have setup wiki leaks

  on But How Could Wikileaks Break A Story Without Traditional Newspaper Backing?
  While I'm hardly a fan of MSM; give credit where credit is due here and read the list of financial supporters to Wikileaks on the bottom of the page, naturally you have ACLU and the EFF representing, but also the LA Times, SF Chronicle, Gannett, the AP, and a few national-level newspaper and MSM associations.
  
  
  Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press (RCFP)
  The American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE)
  The Associated Press - world wide news agency, based in New York
  Citizen Media Law Project - Harvard university
  The E.W Scripps Company - newspapers, TV, cable TV etc.
  Gannett Co. Inc - the largest publisher of newspapers in the USA, including USA Today
  The Hearst Corporation - media conglomerate which publishes the San Francisco Chronicle
  The Los Angeles Times
  National Newspaper Association (NNA)
  Newspaper Association of America (NAA)
  The Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA)
  The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)
  Public Citizen - founded by Ralph Nader together with the California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC)
  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
  The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
  The Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
  Jordan McCorkle, the University of Texas