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MEDIA ADVISORY:What We Learn From WikiLeaksMedia paint flattering picture of U.S. diplomacyPublished orginally on the F.A.I.R. website on Thursday, 16 December 2010
U.S. mainstream media reported only the least controversial of WikiLeaks cables. But the rest of the world got to read/hear of extremely imperialistic and immoral U.S. policymakers.
In U.S. elite media, the main revelation of the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables is that the U.S. government conducts its foreign policy in a largely admirable fashion. Fareed Zakaria, Time (12/2/10):
David Sanger, New York Times (12/5/10):
David Brooks, New York Times (11/30/10):
New York Times editorial (11/30/10):
Christopher Dickey and Andrew Bast, Newsweek (12/13/10):
Bob Garfield, NPR's On the Media (12/3/10):
Anne Applebaum, Washington Post (12/7/10):
These conclusions represent an extraordinarily narrow reading of the WikiLeaks cables, of which about 1,000 have been released (contrary to constant media claims that the website has already released 250,000 cables). Some of the more explosive revelations, unflattering to U.S. policymakers, have received less attention in U.S. corporate media. Among the revelations that, by any sensible reading, show U.S. diplomatic efforts of considerable concern:
All of these examples--an incomplete tally of the important revelations in the cables thus far--would suggest that there is plenty in the WikiLeaks releases that does not reflect particularly well on U.S. policymakers. In its "Note to Readers" explaining their decision to publish stories about the cables, the New York Times (11/29/10) told readers that "the documents serve an important public interest, illuminating the goals, successes, compromises and frustrations of American diplomacy." The paper went on:
The "duplicity" of other countries can be illuminated by the cables, while the U.S.'s secret wars are evidence of "diplomacy." That principle would seem to be guiding the way many U.S. outlets are interpretating the WikiLeaks revelations. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting is a nonpartisan media watchdog organization. Visit http://fair.org for more information, or share your opinion about this story by writing to fair@fair.org. Republished in the Chronicle with permission from F.A.I.R.
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