By the media, I don't mean just The New York Times and The Guardian. There are more than 5000 local newspapers in this country (where most people get their info

By the media, I don't mean just The New York Times and The Guardian. There are more than 5000 local newspapers in this country (where most people get their information), cable tv, and radio. It's become a widely spread idea that this past round of Wikileaks contained nothing new. The Obama Administration has asserted this as fact and it was widely reported by CBS, BBC, The Huffington Post and more. However, these articles are widely syndicated and a quick search on Google brings this up: WikiLeaks Classified Diplomatic Cable Release Yields No Surprises ... - Daily Finance No surprises seen in WikiLeaks Iraq war data: Pentagon - Reuters (which is widely syndicated) WikiLeaks shocker? In Kabul, Pakistan support for Taliban is no surprise - Christian Science Monitor WikiLeaks torture cables no surprise - Yahoo News Heck, even a letter to the editor at the Pantagraph newspaper in Bloomington, IL confirms my suspicion that many/most people don't believe there was anything new in the WikiLeaks dump at all: http://www.pantagraph.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_ab85fa5a-0ee8-11e0-b0e8-001cc4c03286.html http://www.pantagraph.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_ab85f... "It wasn’t anything we didn’t know and it will all be forgotten, even by the media, except by the dumb military guy who gave them access to the Internet connections and will probably be tried for treason and left in jail." The perception has been created. Most people don't read The New York Times or the Guardian and most small town newspapers report what the AP and Reuters deliver on national matters. You won't find me arguing that Julian Assange isn't some kind of a story. But he's not even close to the whole thing. And he's basically irrelevant when it comes to investigating the leaks themselves. The information contained in the leaks are stories, most of which are glossed over by most of the media. Greenwald does a great job summing up a few of them: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/24/wikileaks/index.html http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/24...