Diegetics

He deserves the prize. So does the Alþingi, for the , which makes Iceland a sanctuary for whistle-blowers.

I was wondering if either the Assange/Wikileaks or TSA fallout would become the media equivalent to the quotidian shaming and dread induced by the Iranian hostage siege. These issues could deftly fragment the media provider market rather unambiguously into a segment that avidly searches for other stories and one that locks horns investigatively with very important and contemporary litmus tests. I'm honestly curious, is anyone left who would push these issues when others drop them? Will shareholders see more value in access to politicians than in the trust given to their business? I feel there are valiant last stands made at some newspapers, that some good work sneaks through the game, but that its too little too late.

The one upside to where the undaunted pendulum continues heading, is that the teardown, should it be during our life time, will be deft, energetic and relentless. And what with the anti-smoking-ad campaign against Fox News, maybe an intergenerational inflection point will break those empires that have not hedged themselves by funding....???

Putin pledging support for an advocate of free speech and openness is breathtakingly hypocritical, to the point of being hilarious.

Or a shrewd assessment that Assange has a political axe to grind, with blindness in the left eye, and all this stuff about openness is hogwash.