And to think I used to send money to NPR. I stopped when they yanked
the rug out from under Bob Edwards and put in the Bobsey twins(Steve
and Renee). I listen to less and less news on NPR, where I once
counted them a fairly reliable source.
David Greene ought to be ashamed to call himself a reporter. Empire
Bully Boy is more like it.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/19/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
LaChance writes: "A major tenet of American journalism is that reporters
protect their sources. Wikileaks is certainly not a traditional news
organization, but Greene's persistent attempts to get Assange to violate
confidentiality was alarming, especially considering that there has been no
challenge to the authenticity of the material in question."
Julian Assange. (photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty)
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'Incredible Double Standard'
in Clinton Email Case
NPR Host Demands That Assange Do Something Its Own Reporters Are Told Never
to Do
By Naomi LaChance, The Intercept
18 August 16
In a ten-minute interview aired Wednesday morning, NPR's David Greene
asked
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange five times to reveal the sources of the
leaked information he has published on the internet.
A major tenet of American journalism is that reporters protect their
sources. Wikileaks is certainly not a traditional news organization, but
Greene's persistent attempts to get Assange to violate confidentiality was
alarming, especially considering that there has been no challenge to the
authenticity of the material in question.
In the interview, conducted over Skype, Greene pressed Assange to verify
the
theory that the 20,000 leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee
that Wikileaks published came from Russia.
"Did those hacks that Wikileaks released, did those emails come from
Russia?" Greene asked.
"Well we don't comment as to our sources," Assange replied. He remains
confined in the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he has lived since 2012,
despite a U.N. panel's ruling that he has been "arbitrarily detained."
Greene brought it up again: "Every cyber expert who's looked at this has
said it's Russia. Are you telling me that that information did not come to
you from Russia?"
Greene was exaggerating: Cybersecurity consultant Matt Tait recently told
Politifact that "the consensus that Russia hacked the DNC is at this point
very strong, albeit not unanimous."
Assange replied to Greene: "No cyber expert has said that our emails that
we
have published have come from Russia, what they have said is that they have
looked at some of the hacking of the DNC over the last two years and said
that the malware in that hacking appeared to be Russian."
Greene asked again: "Do you know where these emails came from?"
Assange replied: "Yes, I know where they came from. They came from the
DNC."
NPR's own ethics handbook urges journalists to respect and protect sources:
"As an ethical matter, we would not want to reveal the identity of an
anonymous source unless that person has consented to the disclosure. That's
why we take the granting of anonymity seriously."
NPR's coverage of James Risen, the New York Times reporter who was
pressured
by the government to reveal his sources, was more respectful of the
obligation to keep promises. Even Terry Gross, the notoriously tough
interviewer who hosts NPR member station WHYY's Fresh Air, did not ask
Risen
to reveal his sources.
Mark Memmott, NPR supervising editor for standards and practices, told The
Intercept in an email: "It's our job to ask people - experts, politicians,
CEOs and even other journalists - where they're getting their information.
We should always be checking the credibility of our sources, no matter who
they are. Mr. Assange was free to answer or not."
Later in the Assange interview, Greene asked again: "Do you know the source
that provided them to you?"
Assange replied: "We don't comment on sourcing, because it makes it easier
for any investigation."
Greene began to ask again: "You brought up this question of whether there's
an argument that you're a threat to national security. There are cyber
security experts who say that someone in Russia, perhaps the Russian
government, was responsible for getting this information to you. If you
indeed -"
But Assange interrupted: "No there aren't," he said. "They're speaking
about
the hacks of the DNC, not our publications. There's a difference."
Greene again: "If the United States government thought that you might have
knowledge that a foreign government hacked into a political institution in
the United States" - here Assange sighed - "during a presidential election
." Assange cut in: "They haven't asked."
Greene also referred to Wikileaks' "alleged sources in Russia" and "actual
sources in Russia."
Finally, Greene asked why Wikileaks is offering a $20,000 reward for
information about the death of Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee
staffer who was shot and killed on July 10 in Washington, D.C.
"Any allegation that someone has been murdered because they are a Wikileaks
source, even if it only has a small probability of it being true, is very
concerning to us," Assange said. "We have a perfect record in protecting
the
identity of our sources and we want to establish quickly exactly what the
circumstances were in Seth Rich's killing."
"Was he a source of yours?" Greene asked.
Assange replied: "We don't disclose sources, even dead sources."
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Julian Assange. (photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty)
https://theintercept.com/2016/08/17/npr-cant-accept-assange-protect-sources/
https://theintercept.com/2016/08/17/npr-cant-accept-assange-protect-sources/
ALSO SEE: Julian Assange Sees
'Incredible Double Standard'
in Clinton Email Case
NPR Host Demands That Assange Do Something Its Own Reporters Are Told Never
to Do
By Naomi LaChance, The Intercept
18 August 16
n a ten-minute interview aired Wednesday morning, NPR's David Greene asked
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange five times to reveal the sources of the
leaked information he has published on the internet.
A major tenet of American journalism is that reporters protect their
sources. Wikileaks is certainly not a traditional news organization, but
Greene's persistent attempts to get Assange to violate confidentiality was
alarming, especially considering that there has been no challenge to the
authenticity of the material in question.
In the interview, conducted over Skype, Greene pressed Assange to verify
the
theory that the 20,000 leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee
that Wikileaks published came from Russia.
"Did those hacks that Wikileaks released, did those emails come from
Russia?" Greene asked.
"Well we don't comment as to our sources," Assange replied. He remains
confined in the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he has lived since 2012,
despite a U.N. panel's ruling that he has been "arbitrarily detained."
Greene brought it up again: "Every cyber expert who's looked at this has
said it's Russia. Are you telling me that that information did not come to
you from Russia?"
Greene was exaggerating: Cybersecurity consultant Matt Tait recently told
Politifact that "the consensus that Russia hacked the DNC is at this point
very strong, albeit not unanimous."
Assange replied to Greene: "No cyber expert has said that our emails that
we
have published have come from Russia, what they have said is that they have
looked at some of the hacking of the DNC over the last two years and said
that the malware in that hacking appeared to be Russian."
Greene asked again: "Do you know where these emails came from?"
Assange replied: "Yes, I know where they came from. They came from the
DNC."
NPR's own ethics handbook urges journalists to respect and protect sources:
"As an ethical matter, we would not want to reveal the identity of an
anonymous source unless that person has consented to the disclosure. That's
why we take the granting of anonymity seriously."
NPR's coverage of James Risen, the New York Times reporter who was
pressured
by the government to reveal his sources, was more respectful of the
obligation to keep promises. Even Terry Gross, the notoriously tough
interviewer who hosts NPR member station WHYY's Fresh Air, did not ask
Risen
to reveal his sources.
Mark Memmott, NPR supervising editor for standards and practices, told The
Intercept in an email: "It's our job to ask people - experts, politicians,
CEOs and even other journalists - where they're getting their information.
We should always be checking the credibility of our sources, no matter who
they are. Mr. Assange was free to answer or not."
Later in the Assange interview, Greene asked again: "Do you know the source
that provided them to you?"
Assange replied: "We don't comment on sourcing, because it makes it easier
for any investigation."
Greene began to ask again: "You brought up this question of whether there's
an argument that you're a threat to national security. There are cyber
security experts who say that someone in Russia, perhaps the Russian
government, was responsible for getting this information to you. If you
indeed -"
But Assange interrupted: "No there aren't," he said. "They're speaking
about
the hacks of the DNC, not our publications. There's a difference."
Greene again: "If the United States government thought that you might have
knowledge that a foreign government hacked into a political institution in
the United States" - here Assange sighed - "during a presidential election
." Assange cut in: "They haven't asked."
Greene also referred to Wikileaks' "alleged sources in Russia" and "actual
sources in Russia."
Finally, Greene asked why Wikileaks is offering a $20,000 reward for
information about the death of Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee
staffer who was shot and killed on July 10 in Washington, D.C.
"Any allegation that someone has been murdered because they are a Wikileaks
source, even if it only has a small probability of it being true, is very
concerning to us," Assange said. "We have a perfect record in protecting
the
identity of our sources and we want to establish quickly exactly what the
circumstances were in Seth Rich's killing."
"Was he a source of yours?" Greene asked.
Assange replied: "We don't disclose sources, even dead sources."
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