New York Times Style Mag ‘T’ Treats Wikileaker Julian Assange As Pop Icon, a Santa Claus of Information
This Christmas, give the gift of…secret diplomatic cables? There were several surprisingly slanted articles in the Holiday edition of “T,” the New York Times style magazine published 15 Sundays a year and put together by writers and reporters from outside the paper. Most newsworthy (if almost as shallow as the other pieces) was British writer Misha Glenny’s profile of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange ( arrested in a sex inquiry in London Tuesday morning ), presenting his damaging, illegal leaks of secret diplomatic cables as a Christmas gift, treating the controversial figure as just another one of the hip icons celebrated in T Magazine in a story with the galling title “ The Gift of Information .” read more
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New York Times Style Mag ‘T’ Treats Wikileaker Julian Assange As Pop Icon, a Santa Claus of Information
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