'Frontline' WikiLeaks Program: No Meat, Just a Goldfish

Greg Mitchell
May 24, 2011

The mountain labored, and in the end, it gave birth to a mouse. Or rather, a goldfish. One of the only bits of new information in the much-ballyhooded PBS Frontline program on WikiLeaks, Assange and Bradley Manning which aired tonight was: The man who fingered Manning, Adrian Lamo, secluded in California, has a large goldfish in his apartment.

The other scoop: It was Manning’s aunt who made the final update to his Facebook page, announcing his arrest. Come to think of it, maybe that one came out before. But we’ve still got that goldfish.

The rest of the program, from beginning to end, was nothing but re-hash, much of it from news reports going back to last June. We also heard from plenty of Assange critics making their usual and much-published charges. We absorbed multiple appearances by David Leigh, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Nick Davies, Bill Keller. Paging Glenn Greenwald! We did get a few seconds of Dan Ellsberg—at a rally.

It took Manning’s friend, David House, about 55 minutes in to remind viewers, and correspondent Martin Smith, that the soldier has not been convicted of anything. But you'd never know it from the program (which you can watch online here, and peruse related material).

http://www.thenation.com/blog/160914/frontline-wikileaks-program-no-meat-just-goldfish

Very interesting read!

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I know...Godwin's law and all that BS, but the shoe is fitting a bit tighter these days, yes? >>>