That's an interesting story, but it's not my experience and I see little to substantiate it. Certainly all media organizations have real flaws and make serious

That's an interesting story, but it's not my experience and I see little to substantiate it. Certainly all media organizations have real flaws and make serious errors, but that is true of all human institutions (name an exception!). Wikileaks is no exception either. But there are large differences of degree. I feel like you describe the ideal of Wikileaks but not the reality. Transparency is a great ideal, but everything is a bad idea in the extreme - Wikileaks shouldn't publish information that puts lives at risk, for example, or helps the political ends of clearly bad people (and I know sometimes it's hard to draw the line between bad and good, but not always). The reality is that they were Useful Idiots (the technical term, not an insult) for Russian intelligence, and appear to have their own biases and vendettas.