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AP Stylebook on Twitter: 9:12AM, Aug. 27 2013 | On Pvt. Manning.

AP Stylebook on Twitter: 9:12AM, Aug. 27 2013 | On Pvt. Manning.: AP Style: Use Pvt. Chelsea E. Manning and female pronouns for soldier formerly known as Bradley Manning, per her wishes to live as a woman.

Virtually Everything the Government Did to WikiLeaks is Now Being Done to Mainstream US Reporters

Virtually Everything the Government Did to WikiLeaks is Now Being Done to Mainstream US Reporters:

At Freedom of the Press Foundation, we believe it’s vital to defend WikiLeaks’ right to gather and publish classified information in the public interest, just as it’s vital to protect the rights of Associated Press and Fox News to do the same. Under the law, the AP, Fox News, and WikiLeaks are no different (a fact that even the government argues). If one falls, the others will not be far behind.

When they came for Wikileaks… 

“When our sources are prosecuted, the news-gathering process is criminalized, so it’s incumbent…”

“When our sources are prosecuted, the news-gathering process is criminalized, so it’s incumbent upon all journalists to speak up.”

– New Yorker’s Jane Mayer quoted in Guardian’s article Justice Department’s pursuit of AP’s phone records is both extreme and dangerous

“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone…”

““There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP’s newsgathering operations, and disclose information about AP’s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know.””

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