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<div style="font-family: helvetica, arial; color: black; "><blockquote style="border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: blue; padding-left: 3px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">As you are not a journalist, I guess, dear Koven, you may freely
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">I'm afraid that's unfactual, virtual mind-reading. I represent a journalistic NGO, the World Press Freedom Committee, and have been a reporter and editor at the Herald Tribune, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. </font>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">My concern in following the list is the furtherance and preservation of freedom of expression and press freedom, on- and offline, </font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Assange's actions have raised press freedom issues, In February, I organized a major conference for my group at UNESCO HQ on the fallout for journalism of the WikiLeaks document-dumping approach. Two British lawyers who have represented Assange were amongst the speakers. It was rather like an IGF. We exchanged observations and ideas but issued no general conclusions.</font><br>
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From: Dominique Lacroix <dl@panamo.eu><br>
To: governance <governance@lists.igcaucus.org><br>
Cc: Koven Ronald <kovenronald@aol.com>; salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com>; gpaque <gpaque@gmail.com><br>
Sent: Mon, Aug 20, 2012 3:33 am<br>
Subject: Re: [governance] Tangential (On Exceptionalism Wikileaks) America's vassal acts decisively and illegally<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 19/08/12 23:57, Koven Ronald a
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<blockquote type="cite"><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Quite aside from that, from
my perspective and that of many of my most thoughtful American
journalistic colleagues, it is clear that Assange is motivated
by a very strong streak of political anti-Americanism -- </font></font></blockquote>
Disclaimer : I do admire great US companies such as Verisign,
Google, Amazon, etc.<br>
I like Apple, Coca Cola and Mickey Mouse.<br>
I'm still an Obama supporter, as I was four years ago (I can prove
it. It's on the Internet ;-))<br>
I like so called "America". A great nation. My mother married an US
marine. And half of my family are American people.<br>
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I'm not either an anti-American nor a spy. Can we begin free talks
now?<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">that he means to embarass
the US government as much as possible. </font></font></blockquote>
That was the result, for sure.<br>
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Not necessarily the main intentions. "Procès d'intention" (Google
translate bugged, sorry...) are not fair, do you know?<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">That may be a perfectly
legitimate for a political activist. But it undercuts any
claim to be a journalist, Professional journalists aren't
supposed to follow political agendas.</font></font></blockquote>
A journalist may have political opinions and may express them. The
journalist's duty is to prove what she/he says with documents or
arguments. He/she has to provide readers means for thinking. But
she/he cannot be deprived of freedom of thinking or speeching, isn't
it?<br>
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As you are not a journalist, I guess, dear Koven, you may freely
write your opinion on this list...<br>
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@+, Dominique<br>
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Dominique Lacroix
Société européenne de l'Internet
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://www.ies-france.eu">http://www.ies-france.eu</a>
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