WITN: Wikileaks Is Dead – Long Live Julian Assange

Sarah Lacy

Sarah Lacy writes for PandoDaily, a news site which she founded. She is also an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0” (Gotham Books, May 2008) and “Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos... → Learn More

Monday, January 10th, 2011

After Paul’s Saturday post about Julian Assange resulted in him being labelled a US government stooge – not to mention receiving a couple of death threats (no, really) – he’s decided never again to discuss the founder of Wikileaks.

In fact, after much consideration, he’s decided that he was wrong (as was Vanity Fair) and TechCrunch commenters were right: Assange is an unblemished hero of openness, and in this week’s episode of Why Is This News, we celebrate his many worthy accomplishments.

Nah, just kidding. Slightly NSFW video below.

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