[pp.int.general] URGENT PRESS REQUEST - Contact WL

[Erik Lönroth]

I didn't mean to bring critisism to a specific news-channel at all.
But the point is that if you appear as a "spokesperson" at all,
anywhere, on bahalf of Wikileaks - you immediately become a target.
Internationally.

I would definetly not take that kind of initiative on bahalf on some
other person. That is a question of personal integrity (one of our
core values) and for the same reason we don't publish or make
available the names of our members or any other person.

If Wikileaks spokes-persons needs to talk to media, I'm 100% sure they
will be able to do that. In this case its media who has the urge to
fish for a scope.

/Erik


On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Wesley Schwengle (Piratenpartij)
<bestuur at piratenpartij.nl> wrote:
> On 12/09/2010 03:34 PM, Erik Lönroth wrote:
>> As far as I understand, thisw contact person is Julian Assange.
>>
>> Considering the treatment spokesmen for this kind of services get from
>> media and the alike, I wouldn't assist with that information even if I
>> had it.
>
> The press in .nl has been very very pro-Wikileaks, with two public TV
> station mirroring Wikileaks. VPRO traditionally leftish and Pwned, a bit
> right, but  pro Pirate Party. The weblog GeenStijl (from which Pwned
> originated) published our tv/radio ads when the public channels would
> not (long story short :)).
>
> The Spits (which is from The Telegraaf which owns GeenStijl) wants to
> make a piece about anonet and Wikileaks and what motivates them.
> Obviously, they could read about it on the net, but being journalists,
> they want to talk to someone.
>
> Goverment officials are more anti-WL, from the right spectrum, while the
> left/centrum spectrum is Pro. The discussion on WL in .nl is healthy.
>
> Cheers,
> Wesley
>
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