2013/9/4 John Young <[1]jya@pipeline.com>

   The Snowden material needs an untethered, unchoked,
   and unmarionetted leaker not more commercial journalism
   dribbling what, unforntunately has become common in the
   "era of WikiLeaks journalism," is disinfo. And implies the
   prospect of complicity with authorities under rigging of
   privileged journalism and coddled D-Noticers.

   You could say playing games is what politicians do. But not playing the
   games means you get no game. Assange does explicitly, publicly and
   knowingly play games. He knows they work. Had all the documents been
   published unedited there would be a single headline in every newspaper.
   Now there's thousands. Every week it's hammered upon. We see people
   claiming "Oh, see, the NSA said something to make it okay, and I think
   it actually is!" only to be stomped by the next headline showing it was
   definitely not okay. This releasing scheme is a very, very good match
   for the current journalistic reality.
   Given Assange seems to be pretty well on the side of civil liberty,
   freedom and power, I think he's doing a rather good job.

References

   1. mailto:jya@pipeline.com