Last week's arrest of WikiLeaks Julian Assange has been met with universal approval from the US print and broadcast media.. The New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, the major US newspapers, have all endorsed Assange's arrest and extradition to..…

Assange and Wikileaks are more parallel to the role of the New York Times in this story, but it is still not in the same situation.  The argument isn’t that Assange isn’t a journalist, or that Wikileaks is not a journalistic publication; for purposes of first amendment..…

But in 2013, the Obama DOJ concluded that it could not prosecute Assange in connection with the publication of those documents because there was no way to distinguish what WikiLeaks did from what the New York Times, The Guardian, and numerous media outlets around the world..…