2013/9/4 John Young <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.