Given that the article is published already,it's quite possible that they made the decision before cablegate. Plus it's supposed to be for the year as a whole.

Given that the article is published already,it's quite possible that they made the decision before cablegate. Plus it's supposed to be for the year as a whole. While Assange has released other stuff this year (collateral murder, etc), until cablegate, a pretty small segment of the population knew about Wikileaks