So it's obvious here that this is how the former "professional" media plans to take back journalism from Bloggers. This response could not say any stronger that: "we are professionals, bloggers are not". Very sad, and it won't work. Those horses left the stable with the advent of Blogger, WordPress and MovableType.
I also like the part where they say they need to protect the "privacy" of the source in a case regarding the publication of classified private documents. LOL
"At stake are the chat logs. We have already published substantial excerpts from the logs, but critics continue to challenge us to reveal all, ostensibly to fact-check some statements that Lamo has made in the press summarizing portions of the logs from memory (his computer hard drive was confiscated, and he no longer has has a copy).
Our position has been and remains that the logs include sensitive personal information with no bearing on Wikileaks, and it would serve no purpose to publish them at this time.
That doesn't mean we'll never publish them, but before taking an irrevocable action that could harm an individual's privacy, we have to weigh that person's privacy interest against news value and relevance.
This is a standard journalistic balancing test -- not one that we invented for Manning. Every experienced reporter of serious purpose recognizes this, and the principal is also embodied in the Society of Professional Journalists' code of ethics."
(Via BoingBoing.)
