To Comfort The Afflicted
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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Friday, November 22, 2024

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Honor The WikiLeakers

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BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN When it comes to journalistic achievements in 2010, the elephant in the room is WikiLeaks. I’ve seen many put-downs of the materials as containing “no smoking guns,” or as being essentially trivial communications to the State Department from U.S. diplomats and kindred government agents around the world. Now, it’s true that the […]

Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.