But many others were wondering if it was one more indication that the WikiLeaks movement, which changed the face of journalism and the entire informational ecosystem, could be in doubt as well. Although stateless and seemingly beyond the reach of the law and its enemies, WikiLeaks was, from the beginning, subject to a number of internal frailties and external vulnerabilities. The fact that WikiLeaks came to be embodied in a single individual, especially one as mercurial as Mr. Assange, was chief among them. Internal battles led to the departure of a number of key programmers. Large, corporate enablers of online payments, including PayPal, MasterCard, Visa, Western Union and Bank of America, declined to process donations, all but cutting off the organization from its funding base.
– LOL files: Former Newsweek editor says they didn’t run the Clinton-Lewinsky affair because they were afraid it would hurt the publication’s reputation. Good to know they’ve since (d)evolved beyond that standard now.
Former Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker said Sunday he chose not to run the story that former President Bill Clinton had an affair with Monica Lewinsky because he and his staff didn’t feel they were on firm enough ground.
“If we had gotten that wrong,” Whitaker told CNN’s Howard Kurtz on Reliable Sources, it “could have been a mortal blow to Newsweek’s reputation”
– The Associated Press micromanages reporters’ Tweets and operates under the assumption that a RT equals an endorsement, which it does not.
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